
Aiguille Verte : first wingsuit BASE jump for Antoine Pecher and Eric Jamet
The Eternal Flame duo continue their exploration of the finest wingsuit lines in the Alps. On April 11, Éric Jamet and Antoine Pecher marked a new page in the history of mountain flying by making the first wingsuit jump from the Aiguille Verte (4,122 m) in the Mont-Blanc massif. The result: a 2.30-minute flight with a view, and a 2,900-meter ascent to Chamonix. Antoine Pecher tells us all about...

The Annapurna Sherpas who died for others
It was midday on Monday, April 7, when an avalanche swept down the Annapurna face, killing two Nepalese Sherpas. Rima Rinje and Ngima Tashi were above Camp 2, at around 5600 meters. They were in charge of supplying the camps with oxygen cylinders, when a huge avalanche hit. Miraculously, a third Sherpa, Pemba Thenduk, also caught in the avalanche, managed to escape. All three men worked for the...
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Annapurna rescue: French Speed Climber Vadim Druelle injured after crevasse fall
French climber Vadim Druelle fell into a crevasse on his way down from Annapurna Camp 3, March 30th. The Himalayan speed climber was rescued by Sirbaz Khan, a Pakistani member of his team, when he...

Janja Garnbret claims first female ascent of legendary 5.14c from the 90s in Slovenia
After ticking off her third 5.14b on sight three weeks earlier with “Popolni Mrk” at Mišja peč, Slovenia’s mythical cliff, Janja Garnbret continues by signing the first female ascent of “Za...

Pierra Menta 2025, still the greatest ski-mountaineering race
The world’s biggest ski-mountaineering race, the Pierra Menta, ended with a double French victory for Axelle Gachet-Mollaret with Lorna Bonnel, and for locals William Bon Mardion and Xavier...

The twelve most important solo ascents of the Drus west face
The west face of the Drus dominates Chamonix, attracting the best climbers of their time like a magnet. We have compiled a non-exhaustive list of solo ascents of this thousand-meter wall of granite....

Painting the mountains, full movie
The Patagonian mountains attract the best climbers, but more rarely skiers, and for good reason: the tawny granite spires that streak across the skies of El Chalten are big walls where there is...

Steep skiing and snowboarding: Gaspard Ravanel, Tim Roche, Tim Guala and Taôma Carcuac sign a new descent on the south face of the aiguille de Talèfre, France
On the 4th of February, Gaspard Ravanel and his team mapped out a new variant of a ski and snowboard descent on the south face of the aiguille de Talèfre in the Mont-Blanc massif. It was an...

New route in Patagonia’s remote Turbio valley : the story of two Canadian climbers
At the end of January, young Canadian climbers Flavie Cardinal and Jasper Pankratz opened a new route : Todo lo que se Comparte (TD, 5.11, A0, 500m) on the Pirita Central in the remote Turbio...

Seb Berthe successfully climbs the Dawn Wall and dedicates his ascent to the “anti-fascist struggle”
On January 31, Seb Berthe became the 4th climber to send the 32 pitches of the Dawn Wall on El Capitan, the most difficult multi-pitch route on the planet. The Belgian climber had already attempted...

“The most ambitious and difficult project I’ve undertaken in the Alps” told us French alpinist Benjamin Védrines after his 5-days-solo-ascent of the Drus
The French climber is one of the best, if not the best, of his generation. Benjamin Védrines has just climbed, alone and in winter, an extreme route in Les Drus, above Chamonix, called BASE (ED+,...
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Painting the mountains, full movie
The Patagonian mountains attract the best climbers, but more rarely skiers, and for good reason: the tawny granite spires that streak across the skies of El Chalten are big walls where there is...
Ice climbing : the new guidebook for Briancon, the French Ice Climbing Mecca
350 pages, 850 ice and mixed routes: it’s been a long wait, but not in vain! Twenty years have passed since the previous topo, and now the new guidebook for ice climbing around Briancon,...
Their First Ascent: how they do it… and how they tell it
It’s a popular drawing by French artist Samivel published in his collection Sous l’oeil des choucas in 1937. The first box of the strip shows two mountaineers climbing a small, debonair...
Chamonix Photo Festival: the meeting place for image enthusiasts
It’s the autumn rendezvous of the mountaineering capital: the Chamonix Photo Festival. From October 25 to 27, it’s the place to be for lovers of photography and the mountains. On the...