On May 29, 2016, the Peruvian engineer César Augusto Portocarrero Rodríguez has been selected as the winner of the 2017 Sir Edmund Hillary Mountain Legacy Medal. He will receive the award in Kathmandu (Nepal) on December 11, 2016, during the International Mountain Day. Sir Edmund Hillary, founding member and honorary …

A sustainable adventure across the Alps by a team of “SEA BIRDS”. When one lives permanently by the sea, specifically in Normandy, claiming to run up peaks, and to venture to high altitudes are simply puzzling statements coming from a sailor; at the minimum they surprise or are taken as …

Each year, days before the start of the Conference of the Parties (COP) of the Convention of the United Nations framework on climate change (UNFCC), the Conference of Youth (COY) is organized in the city where the COP is done. In 2015, since the COP21 was held in Paris (France), …

This is no longer a hypothesis, it’s happening now. For example “The Ecrins glaciers will disappear, this is not a pessimistic scenario, it’s real, it’s under way at a rapid pace. This question of the summer mountaineering future will see a final and sad answer in 10 or 15 years, …