Alps

Via Alpina - © Philippe Gatta

Via Alpina – 1000 Km across the Alps

Wishing to run across the Triglav, Dolomites, Tyrol, la Bavaria, Interlaken…, they decided to follow a combination of the red and green Trail of the Via Alpina. To limit the overall distance to 1,000 km, they decided to start in the Triglav National Park (Slovenia) and finish in Chamonix (France). From the Triglav, they followed the Red Trail across Italy, Austria, Germany to Lichtenstein. From there, they switched to the Green trail to Lenk in Switzerland. After Lenk, they made their own trail to Chamonix, France.

Trail: Mont Vial

The trail is just 23 km long with 2050 meters of elevation gain and offers nice views over the Alps after Revest-Les-Roches.

North Face of the Eiger

Tuesday Alex Chabot and I left Nice to Grindelwald in Switzerland with the goal to climb the North Face of Eiger (3970m).

Cime Paranova – 2 Couloirs

I went back to the Gordolasque Valley in the national Park of Mercantour to climb a new Couloir.

Pelago – Couloirs Nathalie and East

For this first day of 2012, I woke up at 5:30am and went to the Boréon in the the Valley of Vésubie to climb the

Grand Capelet – Couloir Diagonale

Today I climbed the Grand Capelet – Couloir Diagonale (AD, 300m) in the West face of Grand Capelet (2935 m) in the Valley of Gordolasque.

Gélas – West Couloir

Anna and I went to the Madone de Fenestre to climb the West Couloir (II, AD / 3, 300m) of Gélas (3143 m).

Gélas – Southwest ridge

After the snow fall of last week, I was excited to start a new ski touring season. The snow starts at 2200m so I decided

Ski alpinism: Gélas – Southwest ridge

After the snow fall of last week, I was excited to start a new ski touring season. The snow starts at 2200m so I decided

Trail: Vallees Gordolasque – Merveilles

Last weekend Anna and I did a very nice trail in the Valleys of Gordolasque and Merveilles. The trail is only 21km long but it

Cime de Juisse – Peirastreche

Anna and I went back to the Boréon to climb another Couloir in the Northwest face of Cime de Juisse (2580 m), called Peïrastreche. Overall

Mont Demant

Bad weather, bad snow, bad choice is how I would summarize this day. It was my fault though, the forecast was not encouraging but I