Expédition Hoggar 79
Movie 10.0 1979

Expédition Hoggar 79

Documentary Adventure

TSR documentary on the 1979 expedition to Algeria in the Atakor massif (Hoggar desert), organized by Geneva mountaineer Michel Vaucher and Jean-Blaise Fellay. The climbers make a dozen ascents including the famous summit of Adaouda (which means "finger" in Tamasheq, the Tuareg dialect), by several routes. Then a new route on the peaks of the southern Tezoulegs. They discover the volcanic geological characteristics of the Atakor massif and meet the nomadic inhabitants of the region, the Tuaregs, who are increasingly settling in the town of Tamanrasset.

Director: Louis Barby

Cast

Michel Vaucher

Michel Vaucher

Self

Jean-Blaise Fellay

Jean-Blaise Fellay

Self

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