French Annabelle Bouchardon has just completed the first female solo ascent of the American Direct on the west face of the Drus
At 24, French climber Annabelle Bouchardon has just completed the first female solo ascent of the American Direct... Read More
Nanga Parbat: Andrzej Bargiel Skis His Fifth Pakistani 8,000er
Andrzej Bargiel has successfully skied down Nanga Parbat (8,126 m) without the use of supplemental oxygen. The Polish... Read More
Black Diamond Distance LT 1100 headlamp
There was a time when a 300-lumen headlamp was more than enough for running after dark. But the... Read More
Drus West Face: Three Days to Free Climb A Big Wall in Bonatti’s Shadow
Opened in winter 2007 by Martial Dumas and Jean-Yves Fredriksen, on a face transformed by the collapse of... Read More
Farewell Guillaume Pierrel
Guillaume Pierrel has died in the mountains. Writing those words feels almost impossible. Guillaume was a friend. He... Read More
Slovenian climber Janja Garnbret becomes the first woman to complete “Bibliographie,” 9b+ at Ceuse
Janja Garnbret has just completed “Bibliographie,” a 9b+ route, in Céüse, in France. The Slovenian climber has made... Read More
Farewell Andy
I remember Andy Lewis perched on a ledge of the Jonte cliffs in the south of France, back when... Read More
Everest: Left behind during the descent, a Sherpa survives six days alone before returning to base camp
He went missing on May 29, during the final hours of the climbing season on Everest. Found alive... Read More
Skiing down Lhotse without bottled oxygen: Bartek Ziemski’s feat
On May 12, Bartek Ziemski reached the summit of Lhotse, at 8,516 meters, before strapping on his skis... Read More
Alone to the North Pole: 40 Years Since Jean-Louis Étienne’s Historic Feat
Forty years ago, on May 11, 1986, Jean-Louis Étienne reached the geographic North Pole alone, after 63 days... Read More
Garmin fēnix 8 Pro Review: The Outdoor Watch With Built-in inReach
The Garmin fēnix 8 Pro takes almost everything from the fēnix 8, but adds what the range was... Read More
How cargo drones are changing the game on Everest (except this year)
At Everest Base Camp, the logistics are enormous. They determine the opening of the normal route, the setting... Read More
Mont Blanc Record Falls by Two Minutes to French Ski Mountaineers Matheo Jacquemoud and Samuel Equy
On Saturday, April 25, 2026, the margin between history and almost-history on Mont Blanc came down to just... Read More
American Climber Connor Herson repeats Bon Voyage 9a/E12 in Annot, France
The music plays softly, punctuated by the occasional whimper of a dog at the base of the cliff,... Read More
A Flurry of FKTs for the Legendary Chamonix-Zermatt
That’s the thing about records and FKT - Fastest Known Times : they’re meant to be broken, even... Read More
The Dark Wizard, Dean Potter, the Yosemite legendary climber, a new HBO serie
The Dark Wizard : this is the title of a four-part documentary series HBO has dedicated to Yosemite... Read More
Freeski Master Candide Thovex leading the way in Tignes
If you’ve ever complained about spring snow conditions, you won’t be doing so anymore after watching Candide Thovex... Read More
Twenty-four hours of climbing on Torre del Paine: Tommy Caldwell and Siebe Vanhee’s successful epic challenge
It is one of the most impressive big walls on the planet: the Torre Centrale del Paine in... Read More
The call of silence: Mathieu Blanchard’s rendezvous with cold and solitude in the Yukon
In the vast white expanse of the northern part of Canada, Mathieu Blanchard pulls his pulka through temperatures... Read More
Grossglockner tragedy: mountaineer convicted for abandoning his climbing partner
In January, 2025, on the ridge of the Grossglockner, at an altitude of 3,798 meters, Kerstin Gurtner died... Read More
A guide’s book : Pierre Idris Mehdi, à guide in Chamonix
This is a short film that introduces us to the world of French mountain guide Pierre Idris Mehdi, alias... Read More