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Here come the Parisians! They arrive in Chamonix, having sharpened their teeth on the boulders of Fontainebleau, and laughing their way up some of the best climbs around.
With the swagger of workers who opened routes (and bottles!), this gang of cheerful troublemakers marched into mountaineering history — cigarette in mouth and fanfare in the air. They came from Renault Billancourt and went on to claim first ascents in the Himalayas, some of them leaving behind frozen feet and a few fingers in the glory of French alpinism.
Robert Paragot recounts mountaineering from the 1950s to the 1970s: friends and a life of unexpected routes that lifted him up — and always brought him back to Paris, his base camp. The windblown ascent of the Eiffel Tower by virtuoso climbers; the north face of the Drus, snatched right under the noses of the Chamoniards… Their adventures could almost sound like jokes, if they weren’t the feats of the era’s greatest climbers. Robert Paragot didn’t know that their passion would change the order of things, breaking through the social fatalism of their backgrounds. Did they climb to the top of the world so they wouldn’t have to see their factory chimneys anymore? In Sophie Cuenot’s writing, an entire chapter of mountaineering history unfolds page after page.
Number of pages: 264
Dimensions: 23 x 23 cm
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