Piolets d’Or 2022: award-winning climbs and testimonials about the future of high-altitude climbing
The Piolets d'Or 2022 offered a beautiful public ceremony on November 19th in Briançon, France, and celebrated the... Read More
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Sean Villanueva sends Czech sandstone cracks
Sean Villanueva returns to Adršpach, Czech's climbing paradise, to continue exploring the incredible sandstone towers. In this video... Read More
Discovery of the cameras of a famous photographer, taken in the ice since 1937. In the footsteps of Bradford Washburn
Griffin Post is an American skier known for his extraordinary freeriding skills. However, it was not for the... Read More
Piolets d’Or Lifetime Achievement 2022 is granted to the Slovenian Alpinist Silvo Karo
The 14th Walter Bonatti Piolets d'Or Lifetime Achievement Award, which will be awarded in Briançon at the end... Read More
Warren Harding’s Outrageous First Ascents of The Nose and The Dawn Wall
Warren Harding a singular man who marked his time. Harding was the relentless visionary who first climbed El... Read More
Sébastien Berthe free climbs El Capitan in 17 hours
After having assured and supported Soline Kentzel in her ascent of Golden Gate, the climber Sébastien Berthe wanted... 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... Read More
Passion according to Matthias
His Top 100 ice climbs will make many mountaineers dream. But Matthias Scherer is not just any climber:... Read More
The snowflake perfection
"Let us love the snow. Otherwise, we risk breaking our poetic balance and forgetting our human condition," wrote... Read More
Cerro Torre tragedy : the rescue story by the Ragni di Lecco
What has happened in recent days on Cerro Torre has overwhelmed us. In the space of a few... 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... 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,... Read More
Free solo : Dave MacLeod on the north face of Ben Nevis
He is one of the great specialists in Scottish mixed climbing, where ice is sometimes scarce, but frost... Read More
Full circle, with Lynn Hill
Widely regarded as one of the leading competitive sport climbers in the world during the late 1980s and... Read More
Climbing in Jordan : the story of a great french new route
A group of young climbers as part of the Rock Adventure Programme (RAP) from the French Federation of... Read More
The solo according to Alex Honnold : “you have a much closer relationship with death”
TThe new episode of Great Wide Open directed by Jared Leto features American rock climber Alex Honnold. Honnold... Read More
Piolets d’Or 2021: mountaineering under the sign of adaptation and creativity
After a year 2020 marked by lockdown and closure of borders, we awaited the Piolets d'Or 2021 prize... Read More
Verdon : the show must go on
We will never get tired of seeing the mythical cliffs of the Verdon. Even better: it is his... Read More
The Alpinist : The life of Marc-Andre Leclerc
Attention blockbuster in the making ! The American majors are now interested in mountains and mountaineering, surely following... Read More
Why we run ? : a conversation with Bernd Heinrich
Forty years old : the start of the long wait or an age of possibilities ? For Bernd... Read More
Magnificent new lines climbed on Ushba and Ailama in Georgia
The two Georgian climbers, Archil Badriashvili and Giorgi Tenadze, made a name for themselves in 2019 when they... Read More