Le retour à l'âge d'or
Between the end of summer and the first month of Autumn 2016, the high altitude mountaineering has experienced a withering period of extraordinary climbing in Nepal, India and China. The common characteristics of very different climbs are small teams,alpine style, the search for aesthetic lines, in difficult mixed terrain, with a style and an ethic that recall the golden age (thanks to Stefano Lovison for this happy synthesis) of the 80s and ‘90, a new route vision on steep and technical lines. Among the expeditions that have achieved extraordinary feats, we have choosen these pair, which we consider particularly significant: