Sep 14 | The wall was the ambition, the style became the obsession.

By Hervé Barmasse

"The wall was the ambition, the style became the obsession."
-A. MacIntyre-

I haven’t found better words for describing what I expect of this expedition … I close my duffel size xl and now I’m ready to go …

In my head this expedition will be different things: alpine style, a new route on a big Himalayan wall with its high technical mixed and ice difficulties and then the return to Kathmandu on a bike. On the Alps, in South America, as well as in Himalaya, I’ve always tried to follow a precise route that could brought me far away, looking for virgin peaks, untouched ridges or a style improvement on those same walls. Even if I understand that it would be easier to follow already marked tracks on the snow, i certainly prefer to risk and try to climb where nobody has ever climbed and even fail, if that’s what fate has decided for me.

This is my style and this is the mountaineering that i’ve chosen to practise on “my” mountain, Cervino, as well as on all the other world’s peaks.

- Hervé Barmasse

Comments

[Nike Air Max]

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[Cheap Air Max]

mean I just read through the entire article of yours and it was quite good but since I'm more of a visual learner,I found that to be more helpful.