Skiing down Lhotse without bottled oxygen: Bartek Ziemski’s feat
On May 12, Bartek Ziemski reached the summit of Lhotse, at 8,516 meters, before strapping on his skis... Read More
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Alone to the North Pole: 40 Years Since Jean-Louis Étienne’s Historic Feat
Forty years ago, on May 11, 1986, Jean-Louis Étienne reached the geographic North Pole alone, after 63 days... Read More
How cargo drones are changing the game on Everest (except this year)
At Everest Base Camp, the logistics are enormous. They determine the opening of the normal route, the setting... Read More
Mont Blanc Record Falls by Two Minutes to French Ski Mountaineers Matheo Jacquemoud and Samuel Equy
On Saturday, April 25, 2026, the margin between history and almost-history on Mont Blanc came down to just... Read More
American Climber Connor Herson repeats Bon Voyage 9a/E12 in Annot, France
The music plays softly, punctuated by the occasional whimper of a dog at the base of the cliff,... Read More
A Flurry of FKTs for the Legendary Chamonix-Zermatt
That’s the thing about records and FKT - Fastest Known Times : they’re meant to be broken, even... Read More
The Dark Wizard, Dean Potter, the Yosemite legendary climber, a new HBO serie
The Dark Wizard : this is the title of a four-part documentary series HBO has dedicated to Yosemite... Read More
Freeski Master Candide Thovex leading the way in Tignes
If you’ve ever complained about spring snow conditions, you won’t be doing so anymore after watching Candide Thovex... Read More
Twenty-four hours of climbing on Torre del Paine: Tommy Caldwell and Siebe Vanhee’s successful epic challenge
It is one of the most impressive big walls on the planet: the Torre Centrale del Paine in... Read More
The call of silence: Mathieu Blanchard’s rendezvous with cold and solitude in the Yukon
In the vast white expanse of the northern part of Canada, Mathieu Blanchard pulls his pulka through temperatures... Read More
Grossglockner tragedy: mountaineer convicted for abandoning his climbing partner
In January, 2025, on the ridge of the Grossglockner, at an altitude of 3,798 meters, Kerstin Gurtner died... Read More
A guide’s book : Pierre Idris Mehdi, à guide in Chamonix
This is a short film that introduces us to the world of French mountain guide Pierre Idris Mehdi, alias... Read More
French Esteban Daligault climbs “Bon Voyage” 9a E12
It's the fifth ascent of Bon Voyage, the legendary route in Annot, France, graded 9a trad and one... Read More
Heïdi Sevestre and Matthieu Tordeur crossed Antarctica on kite skis, a scientific and human adventure
Last November, glaciologist Heïdi Sevestre and explorer Matthieu Tordeur began a kite-skiing expedition across Antarctica, pulling their pu... Read More
Chasing Shadows: Benjamin Védrines’ film at K2
What else can we write about Benjamin Védrines on K2? We announced his feat in 2024, published an... Read More
The volume of artificial snow at the Winter Olympics in Milan Cortina comparable to the Great Pyramid of Giza
With the Winter Olympics 2026 in Milan Cortina less than a week away, one of its most tangible... Read More
Jean-Christophe Lafaille, one of the best alpinists of the early 21st century, 20 years after his death on Makalu
On January 26, 2006, in the depths of the Himalayan winter, Jean-Christophe Lafaille disappeared on the slopes of... Read More
Alex Honnold climbs Skyscraper Taipei 101 Free Solo on Netflix
It's the streaming event of early 2026. Far from the granite of Yosemite that forged his legend, Alex... Read More
Ice as resistance to the modern world
It's not a scoop, but it jumped out at me during this immersion in a place that has... Read More
The trilogy of the North Faces of the Alps by Léo Billon and Benjamin Védrines: The Grandes Jorasses
This is the final stage of their trilogy, and fatigue is starting to show. In April 2025, over... Read More
The scary teaser: Alex Honnold solo and live on Netflix
This teaser is scary in more than one way.First of all, obviously, seeing Alex Honnold, one of the... Read More