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Nov 2020
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The 3,000 km bicycle ride that made this...

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Writer and director Nadir Dendoune, who grew up in a poor suburb of Paris, is the first French-Algerian to climb the Everest, and remarkably, without any experience in mountain-climbing. His trip to Australia in 1993 for Cairns to Sydney cycling raid was the turning point in his life.

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Journaliste, écrivain et réalisateur, Nadir Dendoune est aussi le premier maghrébin à avoir gravi l'Everest... Des défis sportifs et artistiques qu'il n'aurait sans doute jamais relevés s'il n'avait pas avant passé quelques années en Australie...

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