If you like iceclimbing in France, then go to La Grave and the Diable valley in Oisans, Freissinières and Fournel in the Hautes-Alpes, Gavarnie in the Pyrenees. These valleys with major lines are the places where the ice climbing activity was born at the dawn of the 80s. And then in Haute-Savoie there is Sixt, and its Fer à Cheval cirque. Hidden, but gigantic, the highest, hardest and most challenging waterfalls are formed there in winter. First part of the frosty history of the temple of Sixt, cradle of the 7th degree, in 1992.
There are some strange mountains behind us. You can discover them from the Aravis and the Bornes, as soon as you go up a little. Or simply from the Arve valley motorway, on the way to Chamonix. Although a little distant, they assert, above the Prealps, a supremacy: they are the mountains of the Haut