August 2023. I'm tackling the Dent du Géant. This rocky peak rises to an altitude of 4013 metres in the heart of the Mont Blanc massif. It is one of the most climbed summits 4000 meters in the Alps. 14 metres lower, it fell back into shadow. Unnoticed by mountaineers on their way up, it ... Read more
Thomas Crauwels
July 2023. I'm about to climb the Weissmies. The mountain is beautiful, but nothing really connects us. And I had no immediate plans to join him at summit. Our meeting was the fruit of chance, a will of nature. Because today, the conditions are just right for climbing it. Culminating at 4017 metres ... Read more
July 2023. I face the Eiger. The bernese alps ogre peaks at 3967 meters above sea level at Grindelwald. The mountain owes its ominous reputation to the many climbers who have lost their lives attempting to scale its merciless north face. I have no pretension today of tackling this gigantic cliff. But it ... Read more
Cabane du Cervin, hörnlihütte, cabane du Hörnli... Perched in the Valais Alps, near Zermatt, it is a beacon for mountaineers attempting to climb the Matterhorn. Suspended between heaven and earth, the hut welcomes men and women in search of adventure and communion with nature. The hut occupies a special place ... Read more
June 2023. I'm ready to set off and meet Mount Rose. From the valley of Zermatt, the high summits of this massif catch my eye. Now it's time for me to climb them. At the start of this summer, I've decided to do part of the Spaghetti Tour, the famous traverse of the giants of Mount ... Read more
In an article Previous we mentioned the project of a railway to reach the summit of the Matterhorn and the opposition it raised between 1906 and 1907. Despite the outcry in Switzerland and in Europe, this was not the last attempt of this type, as one might have expected, on the contrary: at the beginning of the 1950s, a cable car was planned on the Italian side to reach the summit of the famous summit. This is the subject of this article, which will deal mainly with the oppositions raised by the project.
It is in the international city of Geneva that Julien and his partner receive us for the hanging of 6 prints of art. Pictures of summits and Alpine mountains that they acquired during one of my exhibitions in Switzerland. This modern and design wall decoration brings this extra warm soul that the couple was looking for for the interior decoration of their new house.
In an article Previous we mentioned the project of a railway and funicular in the Matterhorn in 1907. Faced with the scandal provoked in Switzerland and in England, the concession was never granted. A no less audacious project had been imagined - and started - a few years earlier: the Jungfrau railroad.
Vittorio Sella (1859-1943) is one of the main photographers and mountaineers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He was the nephew of Quintino Sella, one of the founding members of the Italian Alpine Club (1863). He was as famous for his photographs as for his climbs. Sella himself said that he decided to combine ... Read more