Vincent Colliard recounts his record-breaking trip to the South Pole: “I didn’t know if my body could take it”
ALPSMOUNTAINEERINGVIDEO Watch Christophe Dumarest and Tom Livingstone climb Grandes Jorasses’ No Siesta Alpine·29 December 2022It's one of the hardest routes on a north face that doesn't lack them: No Siesta at the... Read More
ALPSCLIMBINGEVENT Cogne Ice Opening: the ice season is on! Jocelyn Chavy·20 December 2022The ice climbing season is launched: in the Aosta Valley, the Cogne Ice Opening festival has lived up its... Read More
ALPSMOUNTAINEERINGSKIINGSUBSCRIBERS Epic Steep skiing on the Grandes Jorasses’ North Face Jocelyn Chavy·15 November 2022On the 11th of November, Guillaume Pierrel and Boris Langestein skied the Linceul on the Grandes Jorasses. If... Read More
ALPSCLIMBINGSUBSCRIBERS Mont Blanc : the Payot Ridge, unrecommended alternative to the Goûter couloir Jocelyn Chavy·10 October 2022In order to find an alternative to the Aiguille du Goûter couloir and its infamous landslides, the Petzl... Read More
ALPSMOUNTAINEERINGSUBSCRIBERS The 82 x 4000 of the Alps in one summer, on own power Roeland Van Oss·28 September 2022From 27 May to 12 August this year, Dutch mountain guide Roeland van Oss climbed all 82 of... Read More
ALPSMOUNTAINEERINGVIDEO Watch GMHM Dru west face first ascent Alpine·12 September 2022They were streamed live on YT while climbing the Dru. From 18 to 22 February 2021 the French... Read More
ALPSEVENTTRAIL-RUNNING Kilian Jornet breaks UTMB record, Katie Schide first woman Alpine·27 August 2022The UTMB is not the world's top trail running race for nothing: the best mountain runners have once... Read More
ALPSCLIMBINGPEOPLEVIDEO No Straight Lines, the video story of paraclimber Angelino Zeller Alpine·26 August 2022Climbing is a passion. For everyone. "The real barrier is not the physical ability. If you find your... Read More
ALPSMOUNTAINEERINGSUBSCRIBERS Mont Blanc : the huts on the normal route reopened Jocelyn Chavy·17 August 2022Less than two weeks after taking the historic decision to close the Tête Rousse and Goûter huts, the... Read More
ALPSEVENTSUBSCRIBERSTRAIL-RUNNING Sierre-Zinal 2022: Kenya wins ahead of Kilian Jornet and the rest of the world Julien Gilleron·13 August 2022Sierre-Zinal (Switzerland) just hosted the 4th round of the Golden Trail World Series (GTWS). On a mythical course,... Read More
ALPSENVIRONMENTSOCIETYSUBSCRIBERS Global warming exhumes climbers trapped in glaciers Thomas Pueyo·12 August 2022On July 26, two French mountaineers discovered a corpse that had been trapped for decades in a Swiss... Read More
ALPSOPINION Sovereign nature Ulysse Lefebvre·11 August 2022It's crazy what a little change gives wings. Those of a kite in this case, a red kite.Accustomed... Read More
ALPSMOUNTAINEERINGSTORIESSUBSCRIBERS Dent d’Hérens : Tiefmatten’s ridge Antoine Bouvier·11 August 2022In the shadow of its neighbors the Matterhorn and the Dent Blanche, the Dent d'Hérens is a rather... Read More
ALPSMOUNTAINEERINGOPINION The last chance alpinist Ulysse Lefebvre·8 August 2022After a few weeks in the mountains, disconnected from the networks and other notifications, I returned to the... Read More
ALPSMOUNTAINEERINGMTBSPONSORED Aiguille du Tour: e-MTB alpine style ! Lapierre·5 August 2022Who hasn't thought of shortening an approach or making it more fun before entering the full vertical? Having... Read More
ALPSCULTUREOPINION Pride and Prejudice: Jon Krakauer’s Chamonix Ulysse Lefebvre·9 July 2022In the world of "adventure journalism" and mountain journalism in particular, there is a name that imposes itself... Read More
ALPSENVIRONMENTMOUNTAINEERINGOPINION What the collapse of the Marmolada’s glacier tells us Jocelyn Chavy·4 July 2022On Sunday, July 3, at nearly 3300 meters, the rupture of a glacier section, on the Marmolada (3343... Read More
ALPSMOUNTAINEERINGSOCIETYSUBSCRIBERS Controversy on the Mont Blanc Normal Route : new anchors removed by Christophe Profit Jocelyn Chavy·21 June 2022If there is one summit that exacerbates passions, it is Mont Blanc. No doubt also because of the... Read More
ALPSMOUNTAINEERING MONT BLANC: THE NEW NORMAL ROUTES Alpine·21 June 2022Since March, a large crevasse has cut the normal route of Mont Blanc at the Bosses. It is... Read More
ALPSCULTURE The Chamonix Film Festival prize list: The Grand Prix for The Alpinist Alpine·18 June 2022For its second edition, the Chamonix Film Festival ends with the awards ceremony in the presence of Conrad... Read More
ALPSCLIMBINGPEOPLESUBSCRIBERS A tribute to Simone Badier, the great french alpinist Claude Gardien·7 June 2022Born in 1936, Simone Badier passed away last March. She was one of the first women climbers to... Read More