D.O.B: 1963-06-24
Christophe Delachat, born in 1963, is a French mountain guide, writer, extreme cameraman, reporter, and documentary filmmaker. He climbed the highest peaks in the world before turning to reporting and documentaries. His career as a mountain guide led him to discover other mountain populations around the world. He became an extreme cameraman for the France 3 program "Montagne" (Mountain). This collaboration lasted ten years: Ushuaïa and Okavango, Zone interdite with Toni Comiti (France Televisions), the Albertville and Athens Olympic Games, and all international television channels to film reports on Mont Blanc, which Christophe Delachat has climbed more than 250 times. He rounded Cape Horn aboard the sailboat Balthazar, then explored Tierra del Fuego as a trapper and made several treks up to 6,000 meters in the Andes, in the Ruwenzori Mountains in Africa, Greenland, Everest, and Annapurna without reaching the summit. "The mountains taught me everything; they are still my school of...