“Passe-moi les jumelles: Le clocher du Portalet”

Climbing on rock and ice (), Pierre-Antoine Hiroz, Benoît Aymon (Schweiz/Switzerland) 16 min

This is the portrait of two generations of mountain climbers. It was 40 years ago that two mountaineering stars opened up a legendary route on the north face of the “Clocher du Portalet” in the western Alps. It was the apogee of artificial climbing. 40 years later, two young climbing stars stand at the foot of the same face with one single objective: to “liberate” it … Although the techniques have changed, the passion remains the same…