Avid for steep slopes, Marco Siffredi (1979-2002) obeys only one rule: not to fall. This gifted kid with hair sometimes blond peroxidized, green or blue clashed in his valley: Chamonix, mecca of mountaineering. His thing was to go up and down on a snowboard. . 90 minutes September 8, 2002, altitude 8848 meters, rare oxygen, his head already brushing the sky and his snowboard running, Marco Siffredi, 23, rushes from the summit of Everest in the Horbein corridor and its slopes at 50 degrees . A year earlier, he had already made the first descent of the mountain on a snowboard. But there remains another corridor… more direct. It's not a challenge, just a reason to be... However, that day, at the top of the roof of the world, his trace is lost...

A tragic expedition to the Himalayas, told by the great mountaineer Reinhold Messner, who lost his b...

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Following in the footsteps of his father, Folco Felzani embarks on an epic journey on foot in search...

On 15 May, 2006, double amputee Mark Inglis reached the summit of Mt Everest. It was a remarkable ac...

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1967: Two of the world's best climbers, Yvon Chouinard and Royal Robbins, tackle the west face of Se...

Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedit...

Catherine Destivelle has deservedly become the most famous female climber in the world. She rose to ...