After three to four days of monsoon, more than a meter of snow fell at high altitude in the Himalayan mountains surrounding Everest.
Louis Pachoud, Gabriel Miloche and Thomas Arfi are at the foot of the wall to observe the more than 750 meters of chute that they will climb.
This steep-sided corridor made of a vertical mixture of snow and ice should allow them to reach the ridge by which they will reach a summit, the Mingbo Eiger culminating at an altitude of 6,070 meters.
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Observation is one of the essential phases of a successful ascent.
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You have to decipher the route perfectly, see the reactions of the wall after the bad weather, wait for the snow to work and
settle down", reports Stéphane Benoist, head of GEAN, the national mountaineering excellence group of the FFCAM.
Created in the early 1990s, the group brings together the best hopes of French mountaineering.
The highlight of this two-year elite formation is the expedition organized outside the Alps,
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