Panorama de la Grandeur Sauvage

Dazzling panoramic photography of the Combins massif, which dominates the Val de Bagnes in the Swiss Valais. From the slopes of Verbier, you can admire these impressive mountains over 4,000 metres high. The Combins rise up in the heart of the Alps, between the Mont Blanc massif and the Valais Alps. A veritable diamond in the rough, the massif forms a wall of ice with invincible armour but a fragile heart.

Our gaze travels among the summits, covering in an instant these legendary mountains that can only be reached after several days' walking. Our journey begins on the left at Tournelon Blanc and Tour de Boussine, before crossing the Combins in the opposite direction to the Alpine route. We climb up to the Combin de la Tsessette and the Aiguille du Croissant before reaching the Combin de Grafeneire or Grand Combin, ruler of the massif. We then descend to the Combin de Valsorey and the Combin de Corbassière before reaching the Petit Combin. At the foot of the Corbassière glacier, the black triangular Panossière hut stands out against the moraine. The only man-made landmark lost in the midst of this grandiose, untouched immensity, it reminds us just how tiny we really are.

I took this beautiful black-and-white photograph after a snowstorm. The immaculate relief plunges us into a sumptuous universe where absolute purity merges with the implacable power of the elements. It took me many years to capture this state of grace. High mountains at their most beautiful. I chose this particular angle because it's from here that the Combins massif appears at its most imposing and wild. On its print large-format photo, the viewer is treated to a wealth of detail. An abstract adventure that reveals new creations every day. The play of snow on rock invites the imagination. I can see a dog's head on the Tournelon Blanc website. And what do these reliefs inspire in you?