we went rock climbing, after the second pitch, at the crux , my partner had an old injury pain he couldnt deal with any longer. And me , well, as far as alpine rock climbing leading goes, if you tell me the words: CRUX and SLAB and ROOF…i am not going anywhere . So we just sat there and watched planes , birds and climbers.
can you see the climbers
Take a young rando racer, 1 radical ski alpinist and me. shake. And you get 1600 M vertical ascent, 3000M descent. 3 entracked couloirs with cold snow exposed and fairly steep…3 new lines for me. all between 9 am and 2.30 PM. fun day! we should have carried on to Buet but… why? and the elevation apres ski burger and beer were singing my name pretty loudly…
luca pandolfi
Now that we (occident mostly) have entirely polluted ALL of the fresh water in China by exporting our dirty industry (like euhm those great colors on patagucci clothing for exemple) China is taking control of lake Tanganyika: the second largest fresh water lake by volume in the world …good job! Future generations are going to have soo much fun!
un-to-propose-planetary-regulations-water-food
so wrong…soon we will need a permit to boil snow in the mountains…
Jon is a bad ass alpinist who takes his 5D on all his trips. And let me tell you, that is not easy….
here some picts of his last trip
Jordan Manley is an amazing photographer and videographer. I love those 2 movies of him…
Every year at around spring which came a little too early this year , chamonix has my favorite kind of rock climbing: ski- in ski -out alpine rock climbing . you take a lift , ski 1000 meters -skin one hour-and you are at the base of beautiful south facing perfect alpine red granit towers. from 200M to 6ooM, from classic 5c to cutting edge 7c , splitters-face-you name it…you climb your route in the most beautiful alpine scenery , all day in the sun, rap , get back on your skis and glide down 2000 meters of beautiul rollers down the glacier to your car. that way you are avoiding the long heinous approach donkeying your gear around and the long descent. Only the best. just pleasure..the epitome of “joie de vivre”. Today we chose to go in the argentiere basin to climb the genepi south ridge. A perfect choice to start the season.
refuge d argentiere
we climbed the right tower south ridge
thor
this is my foot
view
those climbs looked pretty hard
chillin out
climbing
climbing
climbing
rapping
we wanted to ski the south face of the chardonnet. When we got to the base of it , it was very hot . too hot. the line is pretty exposed to rock fall and the couloir itself leads to a cliff band if you dont turn hard left…i thought it was sort of Ok but my partners dusan and Niklas were not so keen and went on a full strike: ass in the snow skis spread up in the sky like i had lost all my power. so French of them… so we bailed and skied 2000 meters of rollers in good corn conditions. not so bad.
Cedric Bernardini 