On the Alpine peaks with Géraldine Fasnacht

Géraldine Fasnacht, the TAG Heuer ambassadress, recently premiered her short film «4,634 - Perception - The Mountain Within». After shadowing the production of this film which lasts for 26 minutes, the firm from La Chaux-de-Fonds enables the audience to follow in the footsteps of this Swiss woman wingsuit pilot, snowboard and base jump champion. This adventure tracks the athlete as she sets out to conquer the Monte Rosa, the highest Swiss mountain massif - culminating in the Pointe Dufour at 4,634 metres - with the longest Alpine corridor, the Marinelli. Particularly capricious, this Alpine trail necessitates a long and treacherous ascent through the glaciers at an altitude above 4,000 metres.

The Monte Rosa crests have always been out of reach, even for the finest wingsuit pilots. Combining an Alpine climb with a technical flight at this altitude calls for exceptional multi-tasking and mountain expertise. Since the age of fifteen, Géraldine has learned to read and analyse snowboard lines, so enabling her to thrive on her passion since 2002.

This documentary reveals long days spent reconnoitring trajectories and the starting point for Géraldine Fasnacht’s wingsuit flights. The athlete also shares her passion for the high mountains during the preparation, ascent and finally the flight phases.

November 17, 2016