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Piz Badile is one of the greatest North Face of the Alps. It is a sea of rock, 800 meters high above glaciers which have retreated a lot! It lies in the east end of the Alps, on the Swiss Italian Border. You can see Piz Bernina and Lake Como from the...
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The Grutter ridge is one of the classics of the Aiguilles de Chamonix Massif. It leads to the summit of Aiguille des Pélerins at 3318m. It's an awesome route (D, 5b), rather vertical and sometimes airy. It is one of the best 100 routes described by the...
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L'Aiguille des Ciseaux (Scissor Peak 3479m) is easy to spot from the village of Chamonix. And indeed, when reaching the summit, it really looks like a pair of scissors, a proper rock blade and it is very airy when looking down to Chamonix. Les Ciseaux...
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On 1,2,3, October, Yoyo (from Holland), Matt(from England) and I trained on around the Col du Geant for their competition to the South Pole. They will compete this winter (summer down south) with other teams for three weeks in Antarctica, racing to the...
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The Aiguilles Rouges are facing the Mont Blanc Massif and are an amazing area for rock climbing! Its also a good place to go when the weather looks potentially unsettled as it is easy to get This set is about two days of climbing, guided by Louis Fontes...
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The Dent du Geant is one of the 4000ers of the Alps. It is one of the 100 best ascent described by the famous French guide Gaston Rébuffat. For me, this has also been the second sighting of an Alpine madonna in my climbing week after the Grepon one as...
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The Ecandies ridge belongs to the 100 best climbs described by the famous French guide Gaston Rebuffat. It's an amazing rock ridge graded D with two steps of V+. It's not very high, 2783m, but the scenery is amazing! We had an early start as we were walking...
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