In the icy depths of the Mont Blanc massif, three mythical mountains serve as a measuring stick for the greatest mountaineers on the planet.
Les Drus (3,754 m), Les Droites (4,000 m) and finally the vertical and icy wall of Grandes Jorasses (4,208 m).
Only accessible to an elite of seasoned mountaineers, their extreme difficulty requires spending several days in the cold, the ice and the austerity of the granite walls.
In any case, this is what was accepted until this week, before two extraterrestrials came to revolutionize the course of mountaineering history.
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The Hautes-Alpes guide, Benjamin Védrines, and master corporal Léo Billon, of the High Mountain Military Group (GMHM), conquered these three mountaineering monuments in just three days (from January 28 to 30). their hardest ways.
Until now, we only envisaged their sequence on the scale of several months.
“It explodes all standards, a milestone has been reached”, struggles to realize Stéphane Benoist, former leader of the discipline.
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