Michel Bordet High Mountain Guide

       The mountains, like the great deserts, hot or cold, is one of those places where nature reasserts itself. External nature, that we must now defend and preserve, but also inner nature that governs all of us, even, often hiden behind the culture and social contingencies. The law of universal gravitation, when playing with skis on a dusty light, or shoe on a hot slab of granite, becomes the only rule that must be taken into account ...
      The discovery of this world was a revelation to me that quickly turned into passion, then after by a life choice, in Chamonix, through this business guide that I love so much.

      The Mont Blanc each summer attracts hundreds of climbers, downhill ski on the Vallée Blanche is something absolutely unique in the Alps, it attracts every year thousands of skiers to Chamonix ... But you may find yourself far from the world in few hours at some North Face or a secret valley at the Aiguilles Rouges: that's what I like here.
       The powder days, a strange vibration fills the valley. It brings the tribe of free riders at the foot of the Aiguille du Midi and Grands Montets: on those days, it must be. Skiing here is almost a religion: backcountry skiing, ski touring, ski mountaineering, it is available in all its forms.
       With the equipment development, winter mountaineering has become an important practice: ice climbing, gullys, north faces, it's in winter, when frost freezes all things, that we can go on adventure.     

      In summer, my preference goes to the Granite, a rock of exceptional quality, which attracts climbers from around the world. But the most beautiful trips may be these fantastic rides, between heaven and earth on the edges leading to the many peaks of the massif.

       The Mont Blanc, Monte Rosa, the Matterhorn, Bernese, Grand Paradise, i travel on foot or ski by differents alpine massifs for many years with the hope to climb all the 4000 peaks from the Alps. I hope you climb with me the last ones that i miss ...  

     See you soon!
     Michel Bordet, High Moutain Guide

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