Nanga Parbat First Ski Descent of the Rupal side for Tiphaine Dupérier and Boris Langenstein, Paragliding for David Göttler

Nanga Parbat First Ski Descent of the Rupal side for Tiphaine Dupérier and Boris Langenstein, Paragliding for David Göttler

It’s the highest, most secret side of Nanga Parbat, Pakistan’s 8126 m. giant: the 4500 m. high Rupal. You read that right. On June 24, the trio of French Tiphaine Dupérier, Boris Langenstein and German David Göttler reached the summit via the Rupal Face Schell route, without bottled oxygen and in alpine style. This was followed by the first ski descent of the Rupal from the summit of...

Mont Blanc, new FKT : William Boffelli tells us about his new speed record on the roof of the Alps

Mont Blanc, new FKT : William Boffelli tells us about his new speed record on the roof of the Alps

Records are made to be broken, but little did we know that new Benjamin Védrines’ FKT on Mont Blanc would last just seven days. On May 31, Italy’s Wiliam Boffelli shaved more than ten minutes off the time, clocking a round trip from Chamonix church to Mont Blanc, 4810 m, in 4h43min and 24 seconds. In this in-depth interview, he tells us all about his short preparation and high level...

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Avalanches: thank you for staying out of trouble

It’s a sensitive subject. For the victims above all: mourning a death in an avalanche is simply unbearable. The death of a 14-year-old teenager in Les Arcs on 25 December, that of Swiss snowboarder Sophie Rédiger two days earlier, and the more recent death of an off-piste skier at La Norma, all made headlines in the general press. It’s as if the contrast with the almost obligatory...

Jost Kobusch’s determination Everest solo in winter

Among the host of Everest ascents and a list of increasingly various records, there remains one never-before-done climb that really deserves attention. It meets four criteria that can only be described as ultimate: solo, in winter, without supplementary oxygen and by a route other than the normal one. Although climbs have already been made in each of these categories, the combination of the four...

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 peak in bright sunshine, one of them with his hands in his pockets. In the second and last box, the same two climbers are grappling with a tapering pinnacle under a threatening sky. Subtitle: Their...

Free solo for French Climbers Seb Bouin and Alain Robert on a Paris building

No, they’re not window cleaners or lost rope access technicians. On Saturday, however, two dots quickly caught the eye of passers-by on one of Paris’ tallest towers, culminating 187 meters (600 feet !) above the concrete. The two men started off in parallel, before one climbed above the other. No rope, no gear, no harness. Free solo. One is a regular: Alain Robert, the man who has...

The boot of Messner’s lost brother

It’s not Reinhold’s boot, it’s his brother Gunther’s boot. It spent thirty-four years on the slopes of Nanga Parbat before being discovered on the Diamir glacier in 2022. The boot has just been brought to Reinhold Messner’s home in South Tyrol. It’s a 1970 model boot, with a huge Vibram sole and a lining that’s probably too thin, Reinhold having suffered...

The suspended life of Evgeni Glazunov

Whether we like it or not, our gaze remains constrained by borders. The ones that separated us from Evgeni Glazunov can be counted in dozens, piling up like opaque filters from our base camp in the French Alps to the far reaches of Siberia. These filters are all the more powerful because Russia is not the most transparent of states, especially in wartime. Yet Glazunov was one of his...

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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...

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