The summer season ends soon, but there are still some good days ahead to climb Mont Blanc. If conditions are right, it is a relatively straightforward climb. At the same time, its 4,809m are not to be ...
A very demanding route which requires a good level of familiarity with drytooling and placing gear. It has the potential of becoming a classic route in its genre. Compared to the world famous Digital ...
Speed climber Filip Babicz took advantage of the first ice of the season in the Alps, opening what he described as a "modern mixed" M7 route on the NE face of the Petit Flambeau, a classic spire in ...
Last summer the Italian mountain guides Niccolò Bruni and Gianluca Marra established 'Diretta al Borelli' on the south face of Mont Noir de Peuterey in Val Veny, in the Mont Blanc massif. Whenever we ...
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Too much snow forces Charles Dubouloz to change his winter trilogy
Originally, his idea was to solo an iconic north face on each of France's three most important ranges. Too much snow in Les ...
Charles Dubouloz, mountaineering star, retires at 36 with a farewell tour inspired by Walter Bonatti
The great French mountaineer completes the first of his last three winter ascents on Mont Blanc: ‘I hope the deaths of so many great climbers will teach me when to stop, so I don’t push my luck’ ...
Joseph Vallot and his team of guides and porters climb Mont Blanc in 1906. Their ascent will take three days. They spent their nights at the Grands Mulets refuge and the Grand Plateau refuge. This is ...
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