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What the collapse of the Marmolada’s glacier tells us
On Sunday, July 3, at nearly 3300 meters, the rupture of a glacier section, on the Marmolada (3343 m), in the Dolomites, swept away the normal route of this ver... Read More...
Torre Egger : Marc Andre’s Vision The new route tribute to The Alpinist
In September 2016, Canadian Marc-André Leclerc made the first solo winter ascent of the Torre Egger, via the East Pillar and variants of the Titanic and De Don... Read More...
Controversy on the Mont Blanc Normal Route : new anchors removed by Christophe Profit
If there is one summit that exacerbates passions, it is Mont Blanc. No doubt also because of the number of aspirants - twenty thousand people - who want to clim... Read More...
MONT BLANC: THE NEW NORMAL ROUTES
Since March, a large crevasse has cut the normal route of Mont Blanc at the Bosses. It is therefore necessary to bypass it: from the right, some guides have pla... Read More...
Climbing Everest: Kilian Jornet’s tips to save money
Whether it is comfortable or luxurious in terms of paid services, an ascent of Everest by its normal Nepalese route will cost the Himalayan climber between 3... Read More...
4 billion likes on Instagram, me, myself and I
OOr rather 4.2 billion more precisely, of hearts that fill up every day on Instagram, worldwide, for more than 50 billion photos shared since its launch in 2010... Read More...
Kristin Harila’s Quest for the Fourteen 8000
She climbed six 8000ers in 29 days. Even Nirmal Purja took longer to complete his first summits during his famous fourteen 8000 summits. Beating the record of t... Read More...
The mountain embodied: 50 names to know Alpine's TOP50
We're a bit of a Buddhists at Alpine Mag. At the beginning of each year, we wonder under which features the mountain will be reincarnated. And when summer seas... Read More...
A tribute to Simone Badier, the great french alpinist
Born in 1936, Simone Badier passed away last March. She was one of the first women climbers to make a name for herself in the 1960s, in a very male-dominated a... Read More...
How Mingma G. survived Everest’s Deadliest Avalanche
April 25, 2015. A devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Nepal. Almost 9,000 people died and more than 22,000 were injured as a result of the deadliest ea... Read More...
Federica Mingolla, from the gym to the big climbs
The path that took Federica Mingolla from the gym's walls to the mountains, from being a young athlete to a complete mountaineer, was not easy... but the teach... Read More...
How much does Everest cost? Welcome VIPs The Big E. business 2/2
Everest is expensive. And it's getting more and more expensive. Agencies are trying to target the high-end clientele, charging more and more for services worth... Read More...
How much does Everest cost? More than you think The Big E. Business 1/2
The holy grail of exploration may be climbed hundreds of times each year, but it is more fashionable than ever. For the vast majority of aspirants, Everest ... Read More...
Monday motivation
It is the story of a guy who kept his motivation. He attempted Everest in 2019, and had to stop at 8650 meters. Without oxygen, not because someone stole his t... Read More...
Steep skiing and climbing au mont Blanc du Tacul
When the conditions are good up there, you have to take advantage of them. Mountain Guide in Chamonix, Guillaume Pierrel had never climbed with American Mike D... Read More...
Phantom Line on Jugal Spire : a mountain exploration. The story 2/2 TIM MILLER & PAUL RAMSDEN
After the first part of the story, Paul Ramsden and Tim Miller are now ready to climb the Jugal Spire as their eyes turn to a thin line of ice. Second part of t... Read More...
Phantom Line on Jugal Spire : a new route and an unclimbed peak. The story 1/2 Tim Miller & Paul Ramsden
English legend Paul Ramsden and scottish climber Tim Miller climbed a new route on an unclimbed peak located few hours from Kathmandu, in Nepal. The Phantom Lin... Read More...
Sophie Lavaud’s success on Lhotse, her 12th 8000
Sophie Lavaud succeeded in climbing Lhotse, 8516 m, on May 14, with her sherpa Dawa Sangay. With this twelfth 8000 m in the pocket, she still has two summits to... Read More...
Nirmal Purja climbed Everest then Lhotse without oxygen
Nirmal Purja has just achieved a great performance by completing the Everest-Lhotse route without oxygen, while guiding clients who are using themselves bottle... Read More...
The Chamonix Film Festival is back from june 14 to 19, 2022
From June 14 to 19, 2022, the Chamonix Film Festival will be welcoming all mountain lovers and enthusiasts to celebrate its culture and its cinema. After a succ... Read More...
Black power at the top of Everest : the bet was won! First 100% black people expedition
They wanted to be the "first all-black expedition" to climb Everest. It's a done deal. Six members of the American Full Circle Everest expedition (out of nine ... Read More...
Teaser: 2d edition of Chamonix Film Festival is coming soon!
Here is the teaser for the second edition of Chamonix Film Festival! A not-to-be-missed event about mountain cinema. The major productions of the year (Beyond t... Read More...
Makalu (8485 m) in a single day without supplemental oxygen : 17:18 for Karl Egloff and Nicolas Miranda
A magnificent pyramid, Makalu, 8463 or 8485 m, is the fifth highest peak in the world. Without supplemental oxygen, Karl Egloff and Nicolas Miranda succeeded in... Read More...
Himalayas : Changabang’s Boardman-Tasker repeated 46 years after first ascent
In the Himalayas, India is home to peaks of fierce beauty. Changabang, 6864 metres, is one of them. Its western side was the scene of an epic climb in 1976 by t... Read More...
Seb Bouin sends DNA, possibly the second 9C in climbing history!
On the 24th of April, Frenchman Seb Bouin achieved an incredible feat: to complete his long-standing project, DNA, in the Verdon Gorge (France). Seb Bouin has s... Read More...
Running across the Hielo FERNANDA MACIEL AND KAYTLYN GERBIN AROUND FITZ ROY AND CERRO TORRE
Ten years ago, the Brazilian ultrarunner Fernanda Maciel attempted to run the Circo de los Altares (Patagonia) in one go, but the weather hampered her dream. S... Read More...
Sébastien Berthe free climbs El Capitan in 17 hours The Belgian climber sends El Nino almost onsight
After having assured and supported Soline Kentzel in her ascent of Golden Gate, the climber Sébastien Berthe wanted to add a new cross to his list of achievemen... Read More...
What is left of Ueli?
The passing is often remembered as a surprisingly distant fact. "Five years already!" one might wonder when remembering the death of Ueli Steck on April 30, 20... Read More...
SOLINE KENTZEL FREE CLIMBS GOLDEN GATE AT ONLY 21 (AND 6 YEARS OF CLIMBING!)
She is not the "best female climber in the world", but French climber Soline Kentzel, who has only been climbing for 6 years, succeeded this spring in free cli... Read More...
Climbing Mont Blanc could become more difficult
On the normal route of Mont Blanc, at the level of the Bosses ridge, large crevasses have appeared. These crevasses could have a lasting impact on the normal r... Read More...
DRUS: Raphaël Georges climbs the Lesueur route solo Mont-Blanc
From 21 to 23 March, the young mountain guide Raphaël Georges, 31 years old, made the first solo ascent of the Lesueur route (1952, 900 m, M7, 6b), on the nor... Read More...
First ski descent on Aiguille des Lacs by Paul Bonhomme Steep skiing
It's a new steep descent for Paul Bonhomme. Mountain guide by profession but a great lover of slopes and wild mountains, Paul Bonhomme skied the East face of ... Read More...
Why Marc Batard, 70 years old, is back on Everest. Again.
In 1988, Marc Batard became the Everest sprinter, the first man to climb the Roof of the World in less than 24 hours, without bottle oxygen. A record that still... Read More...
Tengkangpoche’s movie by Tom Livingstone and Matt Glenn A first ascent
In October 2021, British climbers Tom Livingstone and Matt Glenn made the first ascent of the North-East Pillar of Tengkangpoche (6,487 metres) in the Khumbu re... Read More...
Passion according to Matthias MATTHIAS SCHERER, PROPHET OF THE ICEFALL
His Top 100 ice climbs will make many mountaineers dream. But Matthias Scherer is not just any climber: for twenty years he has been tracking down the most beau... Read More...
Heavenly Trap : Marek Holecek and Radoslav Groh Baruntse’s Video
This video shows Czech pro-alpinist and Mammut Pro Team athlete Marek Holecek opening a new alpine-style route called "Heavenly Trap" on the northwest face of ... Read More...
Eiger North Face Winter Solo : Destivelle points out the difference between Laura Tiefenthaler’s ascent and her own 30 years ago
On the 25th of March 2022, the young Austrian guide Laura Tiefenthaler solo climbed the North Face of the Eiger via the Heckmair route (ED, 1600m). Although thi... Read More...
Matterhorn South Face First Major Winter Ascent 3 italian guides repeat Gabarrou's dream line
From the 27th of February to the 1st of March, the Italians François Cazzanelli, Emrik Favre and Francesco Ratti succeeded in climbing the Padre Pio, une échell... Read More...
“There is no commercial future in winter 8,000ers” Fernando Garrido says Thoughts about the recent winter season
This winter, the expeditions on Nanga Parbat (Barmasse, Goettler), Everest (Kobusch), K2 (Grace Tseng and Sherpa-guided team), Manaslu (Txikon, Moro and Sherpas... Read More...
Why the greatest skimo race is Pierra Menta Portfolio
The 36th edition of the Pierra Menta came to an end on Saturday. The crowd went up to the Col de la Forclaz and to the Antécime du Grand Mont in Beaufortain at... Read More...
Endurance, Shackleton’s legendary Antarctic exploration ship, has been found
Good news has been rare in recent weeks. So let's focus on this one! An international team located Ernest Shackleton's Endurance in the Weddel Sea at 16:05 GMT ... Read More...
“Family and mountain, this is how you balance those two” Conrad Anker says Torn, directed by Max Lowe
On October 5, 1999, mountaineering star Alex Lowe disappeared with cameraman David Bridges in an avalanche on Shishapangma (8027 m, Tibet). Alex's best friend ... Read More...
“Many friends have lost their home” says Ukrainian climber Testimony of Fedir Samoilov
Fedir Samoilov is a professional climber. He finished 6th in the World Cup in Briançon in 2021. He is 24 years old and is Ukrainian. Currently, as a refugee in ... Read More...
The legendary Conrad Anker
Conrad Anker has had an incredible life. And he's not about to stop.At almost 60, the American is the character of a story so intense that even Hollywood would... Read More...
French Arthur Sordoillet ticks off a rare solo of Pic sans Nom’s North Face
This ascent represents the outcome of 25 years of mountaineering" says Arthur Sordoillet. On the 9th of February, the French mountain guide climbed the Pic Sans... Read More...
Will ski touring soon be charged in France?
The advent of marked and secure ski touring routes, set up by the ski resorts, opens up the possibility of paying acces to the activity. But the conditions rem... Read More...
Success at the Matterhorn for French climbers Billon, Ratel & Védrines The friendship trilogy
French alpinists Benjamin Védrines, Léo Billon and Sébastien Ratel concluded with unusual mastery their winter trilogy of the three mythical northern faces of ... Read More...
The snowflake perfection A short history of the snowflake
"Let us love the snow. Otherwise, we risk breaking our poetic balance and forgetting our human condition," wrote Francis Bossus in La Forteresse (1971).
This... Read More...
Meeting Nirmal Purja, universal mountaineer
Nirmal Purja made a quick and surprising stop in France, in collaboration with his sponsor Therm-ic. As neighbors, here in the french Alps, we had the great opp... Read More...
Ice climbing : always a famous place sixt fer à cheval 30 years 2/2
At the Fer à Cheval in Sixt, the disciples of François Damilano and Thierry Renault continued their exploration of the circus with talent. The free climbing of ... Read More...
Cerro Torre tragedy : the rescue story by the Ragni di Lecco Della Bordella, De Zaiacomo, Bacci
What has happened in recent days on Cerro Torre has overwhelmed us. In the space of a few hours there was anxiety as we waited for news, relief at knowing that... Read More...
Sam Anthamatten: Best supporting role TOP 50 skiing
The youngest member of the Anthamatten clan, now retired from the Freeride World Tour, teamed up with Jérémie Heitz to make the highly anticipated sequel to He... Read More...
Dani Arnold: against the clock TOP 50 mountaineering
He’d promised himself he would break the speed records for all six of the Alps’ legendary north faces. After the Cima Grande in Italy, the Grandes Jorasses in ... Read More...
Chantel Astorga : Miss Denali TOP 50 mountaineering
Chantel Astorga made her name in 2017, when she won the Piolet d’Or with Anne Gilbert Chase for their ascent of Nilkantha. She hit the headlines again in 2021 f... Read More...
Filip Babicz: a man in a hurry TOP 50 mountaineering
B
abicz earned himself the nickname Peuterey Man in 2020 when he added a record-breaking solo traverse of Mont Blanc’s longest ridge (completed in 17 hours... Read More...
Andrzej Bargiel: Steep skiing, himalayan style TOP 50 skiing
Where can you go to push yourself after climbing K2 extremely fast without oxygen and then doing the first ever ski descent (2018)? Not necessarily to another ... Read More...
Marc Batard : Everest veteran TOP 50 mountaineering
Marc Batard could star in one of those heist films where the hero comes out of retirement to do one last job. We thought he’d hung up his crampons, but, at the ... Read More...
Léo Billon : Dru story TOP 50 mountaineering
Corporal Léo Billon is currently one of the driving forces within France’s elite mountain regiment, the Groupe Militaire de Haute Montagne, specialising in rout... Read More...
Christian Maurer: The King of the X-Alps TOP 50 paragliding
Maurer has reigned supreme over the world’s most prestigious paragliding competition since his first victory in 2009. He has now won the biannual X-Alps race a... Read More...
Tragedy in Patagonia : Korra Pesce died on Cerro Torre
They are five at the top of Cerro Torre, on January 27. Five like the fingers of a hand, united to reach this summit which more than any other, seems inhuman... Read More...
Paul Bonhomme: X Skier TOP 50 skiing
Paul Bonhomme’s 10X Project to ski ten new lines in the French, Swiss and Italian Alps in just five months was the soap opera of 2021. Spoiler alert: the guide... Read More...
Conrad Anker: Mountaineer with a big heart TOP 50 mountaineering
Conrad Anker has had an incredible life. Now approaching 60, his life has been so intense, even a Hollywood scriptwriter would find it far-fetched. A mountainee... Read More...
Vivian Bruchez: sage of the steeps TOP 50 skiing
Vivian Bruchez does not consider himself an extreme skier, just someone who skis steep slopes. A distinction that most of us will struggle to grasp, given the ... Read More...
François Cazzanelli: fast is safe TOP 50 mountaineering
Another Italian rocket, but one whose motor is just as efficient on the high peaks of the Himalaya. Cazzanelli made his name in 2019 by climbing Mont Blanc via... Read More...
Julia Chanourdie: pure talent TOP 50 climbing
Julia Chanourdie is one of only three women in the world to have climbed 9b outside. She achieved this major milestone in 2020, when she followed her ascent of... Read More...
Ines Papert: Mountaineering with the family TOP 50 mountaineering
The multiple world champion ice climber, who stopped competing in 2006, still climbs and does so with her family. When she is not out with her son Emanuel, wh... Read More...
Carlos Soria: pensioner of the extreme TOP 50 mountaineering
When some people retire, they buy themselves a campervan. Not Carlos Soria. He has spent his retirement flitting between basecamps in Pakistan, Tibet and Nepal... Read More...
Brooke Raboutou : In the blood TOP 50 climbing
It could be said that Brooke Raboutou has climbing in her blood. Her father, France’s Didier Raboutou, won three world cups; her mother, America’s Robyn Erbesf... Read More...
Catherine Destivelle: Mont Blanc’s publisher TOP 50 literature
In 2020, Catherine Destivelle became the first woman to be awarded a Piolet d’Or for her lifetime achievements. Indeed, her impressive climbing record across t... Read More...
Charles Dubouloz : The happy mountaineer TOP 50 mountaineering
2021 was a fantastic and very busy year for Charles Dubouloz. His greatest prize was the highly coveted north face of Chamlang (7,319 m), in the Himalayas, clim... Read More...
Mattéo Eydallin: Forever young TOP 50 skiing
The Italian ski-mountaineer Matteo Eydallin, who now lives near Gap (France), has always been a master of individual ski mountaineering racing. Last year he ca... Read More...
Nicolas Favresse : grade 8 humour TOP 50 climbing
Nicolas Favresse has such a gift for making people laugh — just watch the films of his adventures on the world’s big walls — he could easily have gone into com... Read More...
Jost Kobush: Everest far from the crowds TOP 50 mountaineering
This atypical mountaineer first came to the public’s attention a few years ago thanks to a documentary broadcast by the Franco-German TV channel Arte. He had j... Read More...
Marek Holecek: Miracle survivor TOP 50 mountaineering
Marek Holecek has already won two Piolet d’Ors for his first ascents on Gasherbrum (2017) and Chamlang (2019). His epic descent of Baruntse with his partner Ra... Read More...
Janja Garnbret : Forever first TOP 50 climbing
Garnbret made sporting history in Tokyo by adding the first Olympic gold medal in climbing to the six world championship titles she had won over the previous fi... Read More...
Hillary Gerardi: suffer with a smile TOP 50 skiing
Gerardi, who left her native Vermont for France 10 years ago, added a wonderful page to the history of ski mountaineering in April 2021 when she and Valentine ... Read More...
Antoine Girard: higher and higher TOP 50 paragliding
The paragliding altitude record which Antoine Girard set when he flew over Broad Peak in 2016 stood for five years. Then, in July 2021, François Ragolski overt... Read More...
Mingma Gyalje Sherpa : Words and deeds TOP 50 mountaineering
Mingma Gyalje was a key figure in the first winter ascent of K2, one of the biggest events of 2021. He also helped initiate the project that led to the highly s... Read More...
Yasushi Yamanoi: a life to mountaineering TOP 50 mountaineering
Japan’s Yasushi Yamanoi, who has dedicated his life to mountaineering, succeeded Catherine Destivelle in being awarded the 2021 Piolet d’Or Carrière.
He starte... Read More...
Brette Harrington: partners in solo TOP 50 climbing
When we interviewed Kilian Jornet, he named Brette Harrington as one of the climbers who inspired him the most. We did a quick search to find out more about th... Read More...
Quentin Roberts: Alone on Torre Egger TOP 50 mountaineering
At the beginning of 2022 Roberts became the third person to solo from Punta Herron to Torre Egger, following in the footsteps of Colin Haley in 2016 and Marc-A... Read More...
Stefano Ghisolfi: One of the best climber of the world TOP 50 climbing
After having completed Bibliographie in Céüse, the six-time world champion Italian found the 9c rating of Migos a little too high and downgraded it to "only" 9... Read More...
Alex Honnold : An American in Chamonix TOP 50 climbing
Where can you go next after doing the solo of the century on El Capitan? To France, of course. Alex Honnold was sighted soloing the American Direct on the Peti... Read More...
Kilian Jornet: ever stronger TOP 50 trail running
Killian Jornet has spent less time on the competition circuit in recent years, but when he does enter a race, he nails it. With a nine-out-of-nine success rate... Read More...
Eliza Kubarska: a different regard TOP 50 image
Eliza Kubarska’s latest film, The Wall of Shadows, offers a very different take on Himalayan climbing to the heroics highlighted by most previous films.
Focusi... Read More...
Sophie Lavaud : 8000 collector TOP 50 mountaineering
After three unsuccessful attempts, Sophie Lavaud finally reached the summit of Dhaulagiri last autumn, thereby becoming the first Frenchwoman to climb twelve 8,... Read More...
Tom Livingstone: the english job TOP 50 mountaineering
Livingstone first made headlines in 2019 with his ascent of Latok I with Aleš Česen and Luka Stražar, which earned the team a Piolet d’Or. In 2021, he was agai... Read More...
Tamara Lunger : Farewell to winter TOP 50 mountaineering
After being introduced to winter climbing by her fellow Italian Simone Moro (who, 12 years ago, became the youngest woman to climb Lhotse), Tamara Lunger decide... Read More...
Bernadette McDonald : Mountaineering historian TOP 50 literature
Bernadette McDonald is one of North America’s greatest mountaineering writers. Her twelfth and latest book, Winter 8000, is a masterful account of this major as... Read More...
Alex Megos: step back to step up TOP 50 climbing
Alex Megos burst into the climbing saloon in 2013, when he became the first person to onsight 9a. After a six-year break from competitions, he got back in the ... Read More...
Grandes Jorasses : Hard Winter Ascent for Léo Billon, Seb Ratel and Benjamin Védrines Directe de l'Amitié
Barely back from a second North Face in a row, Léo Billon is enthusiastic: “It’s the most beautiful mountaineering route I’ve ever done in the Alps!" With Sé... Read More...
Garmin inReach Mini
Test conditions
Fall hiking and ski touring.
Despite very cloudy conditions during our test, the Garmin InReach Mini found its satellites in less than a minute ... Read More...
Eiger 1966 : the story behind the death of John Harlin
The north face of the Eiger is unquestionably one of the most difficult and dangerous in Europe, wrote Pierre Mazeaud, who was familiar with the subject. Léo Bi... Read More...
Léo Billon, Seb Ratel and Benjamin Védrines in the footsteps of John Harlin North face of the Eiger
Charles Dubouloz is not the only one to have taken advantage of the beautiful January anticyclone. From 12 to 16 January, Léo Billon (member of the Groupe Mili... Read More...
Ice climbing: the birth of the 7 Sixt Fer a Cheval 30 years 1/2
If you like iceclimbing in France, then go to La Grave and the Diable valley in Oisans, Freissinières and Fournel in the Hautes-Alpes, Gavarnie in the Pyrenees.... Read More...
Charles Dubouloz about his Grandes Jorasses’s solo ascent : “a huge personal achievement”
We spoke to Charles Dubouloz, as he is back from his bold solo ascent of Rolling Stones on the north face of the Grandes Jorasses. The French alpinist describes... Read More...
Solo climb : Charles Dubouloz ticks one of the hardest routes of Grandes Jorasses North Face
He spent six days and five nights in the shadow of the Grandes Jorasses: from 13 to 18 January, Charles Dubouloz climbed the North Face solo via the Rolling Sto... Read More...
Alaska : Ines Papert and Luka Lindic on Mount Huntington
Last Spring 2021 Ines Papert and Luka Lindič made the first ascent of a difficult mixed route on the West face of Mount Huntington close to Denali, Alaska. The... Read More...
K2 ski descent: can drones revolutionize climbing the highest mountains ?
Drone pilot Bartek Bargiel never thought that his drone would be used to save lives before this expedition: he was there to film his brother Andrezj Bargiel's a... Read More...
Arctic 12 : Interview with Jackie Paaso
26 days, with mostly difficult weather and snow conditions: skiing the 12 highest peaks in Sweden last april, beyond the Arctic Circle, was not easy for skier J... Read More...
Age of the Nepalese K2'S FIRST WINTER ASCENT ANNIVERSARY
It was a year ago, on January the 16th, 2021. In the midst of the pandemic, with its restrictions, and after a very difficult year for the expedition bus... Read More...
Ski test : Salomon MTN 95
Getting started
One more time! Salomon has renewed its MTN Explore 95: the 2022 ski is the same as the 2021, which apart from the topsheet was the same as in 20... Read More...
Ski test : Faction Agent 2.0
Our test
Size tested : 179 cm
An all-gray ski, that we can’t decide if it is ultra-classic or very refined. The perceived quality is ok, it’s not superbly made,... Read More...
Ski test : G3 FINDr 94
Our test
Size tested : 177 cm
We tested G3 skis a long time ago, at a time when the brand had not yet fully mastered the integration of carbon in its structures... Read More...
ARCTIC 12, full movie Skiing Sweden's 12 highest peaks
In April 2021, Jackie Paaso and her team, including SCOTT athletes and IFMGA guides Erin Smart and Benjamin Ribeyre, set out on a 415km traverse above the Arcti... Read More...
Ski test : Kästle TX 103
Our test
Size tested : 181 cm
A superb ski that made the team of testers smile from ear to ear because its skiability is clearly in a class of its own in the fr... Read More...
Ski test : Blizzard Zero G 105
Our test
Size tested : 180 cm
The Blizzard Zero G 105 is a ski with an imposing size: 105 mm. Its area of expertise is not in your classic ski touring. It’s mor... Read More...
Ski test : Blizzard Zero G 95
Our test
Size tested : 178 cm
This Blizzard Zero G 95 feels very lightweight underfoot (1260 g for 178 cm). It is very pleasant in the uphill, you can’t feel it... Read More...
Ski test : Völkl Rise Beyond 96
Our test
Size tested : 177 cm
The Völkl Rise Beyond 96 in a few words? A very easy ski, quite light, not very mechanized, in other words, a heavy-built skier wi... Read More...
The alpinist: Don’t look down The dazzling life of Marc-André Leclerc
There are missed appointments that leave their mark. In 2015, I had the chance to discover Squamish, where many high-level climbers were invited by their sponso... Read More...