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I am a happy mountaineer who has just realized a dream
”.
The exalted tone and galloping flow contrast with the image left a week earlier by Charles Dubouloz.
That of a man exhausted, overwhelmed by emotion.
On his knees, his hands in shreds, the 32-year-old Haut-Savoyard paradoxically bathed in an ocean of plenitude, at 4,208 meters above sea level.
After six days and five nights of immeasurable effort, he conquered a mineral monster called the Rolling Stones, one of the most arduous and dangerous routes in the Alps.
Before him, no one had climbed these famous " rolling stones
" alone in winter.
".
With this XXL feat, he joins the pantheon of mountaineering a handful of mountaineers*, who managed to complete a winter solo on the mythical north face of the Grandes Jorasses, legendary playground for the most experienced climbers in the Mont-Blanc massif. .
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I have a little frostbite on my foot which will go away and a damaged hand,
lists the hero, already well recovered from…
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