Above & Beyond

42 summits climbed, ranging from 600 to 7000 metres, crossing through 25 different countries, 102 000 metres of total ascent. 11 000 Euros raised for the benefit of cancer research. While occupying a senior management position in the car industry, Sylvain Perret makes the huge decision to leave his job, his career, house, friends, family and girl friend to set off around the world climbing along the way the highest point of each country he crosses through. The news that his father has cancer inspires him to come up with a fund raising idea to help the fight against this illness and which will assume a growing importance during the course of this expedition. From the stifling heat of the Malaysian jungle to the life-threatening severe cold of the highest summit of the Andes, from nearly being swallowed up by crevasses in the Caucasus to the magnificent views of the Carpathian mountains, we are swept along by his touching adventure, breathtaking at times, sometimes hilarious but always very human.