Christophe Profit

Christophe Profit

Christophe Profit, originally from Normandy, started climbing at the age of 16. In 1980, he did his military service in Chamonix with the GMHM, before obtaining his mountain guide diploma in 1986. To date, he has climbed the North face of the Eiger 10 times, including Heinrich Harrer - even said that a “man [who would make the ascent twice] does not exist and will doubtless never exist. A mountaineering giant, his words on the mountain invariably evoke the happiness of being up there, the commitment, the need to chart his course. In the summer of 1982, Christophe Profit stunned the mountaineering community with his full solo ascent (and the cannon time of three hours ten) of the mythical American Direct. “When I was a kid, I had imagined going up the west face of Les Drus at the speed of a walker”. One thousand two hundred meters of plumbline vertical cracks of the impressive granite spire. Seeing the images of the athlete in a red tank top chaining movements in the immense dihedrals of granite twists the guts and gives a feeling of absolute vertigo. The chroniclers do not yet speak of speed-climbing but Christophe Profit atomizes all the timetables: two and a half hours for the north face of Les Droites, four and a half hours for the Couloir Nord des Drus, barely ten hours for the first solo ascent in the day. of the north face of the Eiger, thirty-two hours for the integral of Peuterey in winter. A speed and ease that allow him to consider the accumulation of the mythical north faces of the Alps: Matterhorn / Eiger / Grandes Jorasses. He chained the three walls in one day in July 1985. Profit is the spearhead of a new generation of versatile, trained and highly motivated mountaineers. In the mid-1980s, the media were once again invited to the great game of “live mountaineering” and reveled in supposed or real competition. A few crazy years where climbers make their exploits visible and readable. The broom of helicopters and cameras feed the opening of television news and the covers of magazines. The duel Profit - Escoffier spiced up the reports: the two climbers pulled the plug. "This 'competition' between us has set the bar so high, it has made us so strong that I have no regrets. More centered, better prepared, it was Christophe Profit who won the day in March 1987 with the success of the winter trilogy in 42 hours. “Profit has killed the history of mountaineering” wrote the writer Yves Ballu somewhat provocatively. After such successes, Christophe Profit could only be caught up in the high peaks of the Himalayas. On August 15, 1991, he was with Pierre Beghin at the top of K2. The duo have just climbed the second summit of the Earth by a new route and in alpine style. “Total commitment, perfect osmosis”. What else to do? How to return to the land of men? As if saturated with too much sound and fury, Profit turns the page on the publicized exploit and devotes himself to his job as a guide. For the joy of sharing. Because it is up there that he feels fully alive.

  • Title: Christophe Profit
  • Popularity: 0.711
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1961-02-15
  • Place of Birth: Normandie, France
  • Homepage: https://www.mntnfilm.com/en/p/advanced-search/type:1?term=Christophe+Profit
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Christophe Profit Movies

  • 2007
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    Les Amants des Drus

    Les Amants des Drus

    10 2007 HD

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  • 2000
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    When the Mountaineers Make Their Cinema

    When the Mountaineers Make Their Cinema

    10 2000 HD

    Many mountaineers as part of their activity have used cameras and films to allow us to participate through images in their adventures and their...

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  • 2009
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    La Piste Frison-Roche

    La Piste Frison-Roche

    10 2009 HD

    Roger Frison-Roche born in Paris in 1906 and moved to Chamonix at the age of 17. He was quickly adopted by local mountaineers and became the first...

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  • 1986
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    Les Conquérants de l'Impossible: Portrait de Groupe

    Les Conquérants de l'Impossible: Portrait de Groupe

    10 1986 HD

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  • 1985
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    The North Face of the Camembert

    The North Face of the Camembert

    10 1985 HD

    While shooting Gerard Mordillat's film, "Billy ze Kick", Christophe Profit, one of the best climbers in the world, was asked to stand in for an...

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  • 1988
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    Baquet's Comeback

    Baquet's Comeback

    10 1988 HD

    July 1956: like every summer, the actor and cellist Maurice Baquet temporarily deserts the stage and the cinema studios to go to Chamonix where the...

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  • 1987
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    Trilogy for One Man

    Trilogy for One Man

    10 1987 HD

    The most legendary 'sequence' ever achieved by a mountaineer: on 12 and 13 March 1987, in 40 hours, 26-year-old Christophe Profit managed to climb...

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  • 1985
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    Christophe

    Christophe

    10 1985 HD

    It is 1 p.m. on June 30, 1982, when Christophe Profit, 24, shows up at the foot of Les Drus with his pof bag, his climbing shoes and nothing else. He...

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  • 1987
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    Faces Nord

    Faces Nord

    10 1987 HD

    March 12, 1987. The young French mountaineer Eric Escoffier prepares his equipment, very reduced in material and food. He leaves the next day and...

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  • 2019
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    Eric Escoffier, la Fureur de Vivre

    Eric Escoffier, la Fureur de Vivre

    10 2019 HD

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  • 2009
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    The World of Gaston Rébuffat

    The World of Gaston Rébuffat

    10 2009 HD

    The World of Gaston Rébuffat is a documentary on mountaineering which takes place at Gendarme Du Pic Du Roc and Grande Candelle. Directed by...

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  • 1986
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    La Lumière du Rocher

    La Lumière du Rocher

    10 1986 HD

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  • 2015
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    Chamonix - Mont Blanc, Une histoire de conquêtes

    Chamonix - Mont Blanc, Une histoire de conquêtes

    10 2015 HD

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  • 1985
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    Billy Ze Kick

    Billy Ze Kick

    5 1985 HD

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