The north faces of the Matterhorn, the Eiger and the Grandes Jorasses or "
the last three problems of the Alps
as mountaineering legend Anderl Heckmair described them in 1949. After many unsuccessful ropes, the German found the solution in August 1951 in the Jorasses* after having been the first, in 1938, to tame the "Ogre of the Eiger**, the rock and ice tomb of many mountaineers during the interwar period.
The ice climbing specialist, pioneer of the use of twelve-point crampons, will never have solved the third “problem” of the Matterhorn, on the other hand, knowingly put aside.
Subsequently, several highly skilled mountaineers completed the famous trilogy of north faces.
The French Sébastien Ratel, Léo Billon and Benjamin Védrines have just succeeded in this real tour de force.
By adding a few extra doses of toughness to an already incredible challenge.
Read also "If you don't stay zen, you're dead": the crazy odyssey of mountaineer Charles Dubouloz, modern hero of the Grandes Jorasses
The three high mountain guides have indeed come to the end of this white hell by taking the…
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