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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 is abundant on the rock. Dave MacLeod is a regular on Be... 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 early 1990s, Lynn Hill is famous for making the first f... 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 Mountaineering and Climbing (FFME) came back from Jordan ... Read More...
The solo according to Alex Honnold : “you have a much closer relationship with death” Great wide open by Jared Lato
TThe new episode of Great Wide Open directed by Jared Leto features American rock climber Alex Honnold.
Honnold takes Jared up Matthes Crest in Tuolumne Meadow... 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 list with impatience mixed with curiosity. The result? A h... 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 story that is summarized here in about twenty minutes. Alternating ... 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 the worldwide success of Free Sol... 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 Heinrich it was definitely the latter, as 40 was the age when he discovere... 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 climbed the Nanga Parbat in spring and then mad... Read More...
Scottish sea stacks #1 : iconic Old Man of Hoy Alpine trips
Whether you call them Old Men, sea stacks or pinnacles, the towers that dot the Scottish coastline are as dishearteningly beautiful as the wind that sweeps them... Read More...
Interview : Sean Villanueva on his solo reverse Fitz traverse
Sean Villanueva blew away the mountaineering world by completing the first solo south to north traverse of the Fitz Roy massif, setting off without warning fr... Read More...
Yvon Chouinard : Some Stories HIS STORIES OF MOUNTAINS AND BUSINESS
New book column ! Yvon Chouinard left his mark on El Capitan and Fitz Roy, and established the emblematic brand, Patagonia, having started out forging climbing... Read More...
Colin Haley : Reflections on Hard Solo Climbing Part 2/2
Colin Haley, a strong American climber and, until recently, a committed soloist, confesses to the following. Soloing is almost like an art form in itself, a f... Read More...
Colin Haley : Reflections on Hard Solo Climbing Part 1/2
Born in Seattle, in love with Chamonix and Patagonia, Colin Haley is one of the best American climbers. After a series of remarkable solo firsts, he is now ha... Read More...
Impressive Fitz Roy solo : up and down without rope for Jim Reynolds Solo of the year ?
The purity of the climb is matched only by its unexpectedness. And no one has seen Jim Reynolds come. Yet this 25-year-old Californian made, on March 21, a sol... Read More...