Here are a few of my favourite moments captured in the mountains. Be it skiing, climbing or camping, the sun the wind and the snow fill our senses with all the vastness of the outdoors. So climb high and look far!
Nico, Sev and Arnaud just getting back from a day’s skiing. Our tent is dwarfed by theice giants all around.
Feeling small (courtesy of K.Garcia)
Invigorating at -20 odd
Sunrise (Courtesy of M.Chapuis)
Last stretch before camp!.
We cut a straight line through the powdery snow, which fell only a few days ago. The sky is bright blue
Along the ridge
Tip-toeing on ice
Two eyes in the sky.
Vallon de Kara-Say, Kirghizstan. Au fond du vallon on peut voir un embranchement, à gauche c’est le glacier de Kara-Say Nord, en face, le glacier de Kara-Say Sud.
Action and Adventure (check out the paraglider…) (Courtesy of M. Chapuis)
Aesthetic beauty
Glacier sans nom 2, sud-ouest de Kara-Say Nord, Ak-Shirak, Kirghizstan. C’est le moment de profiter de la descente, avec une neige encore legère. Au fond les sommets qui bordent la vallée de Kara-Say, d’environ 4500 m d’altitude.
Breakfast at 4000!
V. goes round one of the massive crevasses.
The ridge, too far for today
(Courtesy of S.Stemmer)
In the cavern
Across the summit plateau
Pure blizzard
Time to get going.
I go out to try my pulk solo in the Hauts Plateaux du Vercors
Epic Works 