Sports

I offer technical and sporting activities in the mountains throughout the year. Climbing, mountaineering, canyoning, via ferrata, ski touring, off-piste skiing, trekking: each discipline has its own season, its own playing fields and its own requirements. I can offer this diversity thanks to my three qualifications: high mountain guide, canyoning instructor and mountain leader. What I like to do is build a complete experience that helps you progress, that is physically demanding and that leaves you with lasting memories. You can come to learn, improve or simply enjoy yourself on a beautiful itinerary. I also offer themed courses to help you go further in an activity and develop your skills over several days.

It all depends on the activity and the conditions. Winter and spring are ideal for ski touring and off-piste skiing, as long as the snow remains stable and of good quality. Canyoning is generally practised from May to September, depending on the flow of the rivers. For climbing, summer mountaineering, rocky ridges, via ferrata and trekking, the best windows of opportunity are between spring and autumn. I build my programme around the seasons and the conditions on the ground, so that each activity is done at the right time, in the right place. I'm also on the lookout for good, unforeseen conditions, and won't hesitate to take the car in January to go climbing in the Calanques, or on the other hand to head across the border to Italy if a snowfall arrives without warning!

I've always struggled with this question! I don't really have a favourite, because what I like is that they complement each other. Ski touring offers a unique way of getting around: the glide, the track on the way up, the silence of the trees under the snow, a large, well-defined couloir on the way down, the sun rising over a virgin powder slope, needles soaring above the immaculate slopes, like in the Portetta massif, just behind where I live. What I also like is the progression, the effort over time, swallowing the difference in altitude on the way up, feeling the physical effort. The tiredness of a long day does my body and my head good. That's my nature! Climbing is all about movement, technique and precision, as well as power, mental fatigue and commitment. There's also the warmth of the rock in the sun, or on the contrary that little shiver on a cold face. It's the fear that you tame, the vertigo that you accept... And once back down, you look at the wall and almost wonder how you did it, sipping a good beer on the terrace. And on the rocky ridges, I feel right at home. It's aerial, fluid, sometimes challenging, but there's this exhilarating sensation of walking in balance, of being one with the mountain, of being like a chamois. Each discipline has its own specificities - that's what makes the mountains so rich. Even canyoning, which I discovered late, as someone who didn't like cold water: today it's become a terrain that I adore, for its playfulness as well as its demanding rope work. Canyoning is all about aquatic verticality in a unique and often little-known natural environment.