Vincent Colliard recounts his record-breaking trip to the South Pole: “I didn’t know if my body could take it”
PEOPLETOP50 Yasushi Yamanoi: a life to mountaineering Alpine·30 January 2022Japan’s Yasushi Yamanoi, who has dedicated his life to mountaineering, succeeded Catherine Destivelle in being awarded the 2021... Read More
PEOPLETOP50 Brette Harrington: partners in solo Alpine·30 January 2022When we interviewed Kilian Jornet, he named Brette Harrington as one of the climbers who inspired him the... Read More
PEOPLETOP50 Quentin Roberts: Alone on Torre Egger Alpine·29 January 2022At the beginning of 2022 Roberts became the third person to solo from Punta Herron to Torre Egger, following... Read More
PEOPLETOP50 Stefano Ghisolfi: One of the best climber of the world Alpine·29 January 2022After having completed Bibliographie in Céüse, the six-time world champion Italian found the 9c rating of Migos a... Read More
PEOPLETOP50 Alex Honnold : An American in Chamonix Alpine·29 January 2022Where can you go next after doing the solo of the century on El Capitan? To France, of... Read More
PEOPLETOP50 Kilian Jornet: ever stronger Alpine·29 January 2022Killian Jornet has spent less time on the competition circuit in recent years, but when he does enter... Read More
PEOPLETOP50 Eliza Kubarska: a different regard Alpine·29 January 2022Eliza Kubarska’s latest film, The Wall of Shadows, offers a very different take on Himalayan climbing to the... Read More
PEOPLETOP50 Sophie Lavaud : 8000 collector Alpine·29 January 2022After three unsuccessful attempts, Sophie Lavaud finally reached the summit of Dhaulagiri last autumn, thereby becoming the first Frenchwoma... Read More
PEOPLETOP50 Tom Livingstone: the english job Alpine·29 January 2022Livingstone first made headlines in 2019 with his ascent of Latok I with Aleš Česen and Luka Stražar,... Read More
PEOPLETOP50 Tamara Lunger : Farewell to winter Alpine·29 January 2022After being introduced to winter climbing by her fellow Italian Simone Moro (who, 12 years ago, became the... Read More
PEOPLETOP50 Bernadette McDonald : Mountaineering historian Alpine·29 January 2022Bernadette McDonald is one of North America’s greatest mountaineering writers. Her twelfth and latest book, Winter 8000, is... Read More
PEOPLETOP50 Alex Megos: step back to step up Alpine·29 January 2022Alex Megos burst into the climbing saloon in 2013, when he became the first person to onsight 9a.... Read More
ALPSCLIMBINGMOUNTAINEERINGPEOPLESTORIESSUBSCRIBERS Ice climbing: the birth of the 7 Claude Gardien·23 January 2022If you like iceclimbing in France, then go to La Grave and the Diable valley in Oisans, Freissinières... Read More
ALPSINTERVIEWMOUNTAINEERINGPEOPLESUBSCRIBERS Charles Dubouloz about his Grandes Jorasses’s solo ascent : “a huge personal achievement” Thomas Pueyo·20 January 2022We spoke to Charles Dubouloz, as he is back from his bold solo ascent of Rolling Stones on... Read More
ALPSMOUNTAINEERINGPEOPLESTORIESSUBSCRIBERS Solo climb : Charles Dubouloz ticks one of the hardest routes of Grandes Jorasses North Face Jocelyn Chavy·20 January 2022He spent six days and five nights in the shadow of the Grandes Jorasses: from 13 to 18... Read More
ANDESPEOPLETOP50 Matteo Della Bordella: The Italian of Patagonia Alpine·2 January 2022It took three expeditions and 150 days of climbing for Matteo Della Bordella to climb the west face... Read More
PEOPLETOP50 Nouria Newman : The flying kayaker Alpine·2 January 2022Having just received her fifth consecutive Rider of the Year trophy at the Whitewater Awards, Newman is unarguably... Read More
PEOPLETOP50 Adam Ondra : frustrated king Alpine·2 January 2022In August 2021 Ondra once again became the only person to have climbed 9c (Silence at Flatanger, climbed in... Read More
PEOPLETOP50 Nirmal Purja: nepalese revolution Alpine·1 January 2022 I n just two years he overturned everything in his path. First by climbing all fourteen... Read More
PEOPLETOP50 Elisabeth Revol : Resilient Alpine·1 January 2022Elisabeth Revol dropped out of sight after promoting her book To Live (published in 2019), which recounts her... Read More
PEOPLETOP50 Candide Thovex: Freeride superstar Alpine·1 January 2022Tricks and back flips galore… Candide Thovex has been bounding and summersaulting down mountains for 20 years, shocking... Read More