Uses - Text 2
The company’s literature made a great deal of the “torture sessions” to which the equipment was subjected in order to verify its durability: refrigerated rooms and pitting corrosion rooms ensured that Bolex cameras could withstand both the “polar climate” and “the heat of the tropics,” that they could operate “from -50 to +50°.”[1] Several explorers and scientists, among them a few big names, had the opportunity to put these assertions to the test: the Swiss oceanographer Jacques Piccard, the Polish-born volcanologist and documentarian Haroun Tazieff, the Norwegian ethnographer and adventurer Thor Hyerdahl, etc. Faithful to its mountainous roots, the Bolex was also a favourite of mountain climbers. Beginning with the Swiss expedition in the Himalayas in 1939 led by André Roch, Fritz Steuri and David Zogg, several famous mountain climbers took a Bolex along with them in their packs, including Denis Bertholet, Raymond Lambert, Mike E.B. Banks and Sir Edmund Hillary, the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
