The irresistible ascent to the peaks of ski mountaineering

Special correspondent in Flaine (Haute-Savoie)

Another effort, the grimacing face whipped by snowflakes transformed into spikes by winds at 70 km/h.

A final push on the sticks and it's deliverance.

Barely crossed the finish line, Thibault Anselmet collapses, his head glued to the snow, desperately seeking a breath of air that seems rare in the heart of the gusts at 2100 meters above sea level.

To swallow in less than nineteen minutes the 500 meters of elevation of the vertical race, one of the three events of the Ski Mountaineering World Cup, the finals of which were held in Flaine (Haute-Savoie) there a few days ago, the Savoyard has just gone all the way.

His pulse even raced to 192 beats per minute on the steepest walls where skiers were hurtling down in the opposite direction, dumbfounded by the rising speed of these strange climbing robots.

The effort,

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