OPENING NEW LINES

A crack-climbing standout opens up about pressure, ambition, and finally showing the cracks.

In La Raison du Sport, the philosopher argues that effort reveals the self.

Climbing’s old-school and modern styles clash less than they complete each other.

What keeps climbers coming back isn’t just pleasure—it’s the power of almost.

In Paris, the French Spider-Man fights to control what the world remembers.

Before the towers, he risked everything on France’s hardest rock routes.

A grief-haunted journey through Switzerland, with the Alps always out of reach.

After losing 45% of his blood, Alain Robert fights his way back to elite climbing.

A troubled childhood, precocious daring: episode 2 of our series on the life of Spider-Man.

Aster Verrier archives in gestures the memory of a mountain that is disappearing before our eyes.

Hugo Perez sublimates the fall in climbing: when chaos becomes photographic poetry.

At Poush, art reimagined the mountain in the age of climate change.

Between Lapland, anxiety, and glaciers, Lauriane Miara searches for ways to live in peace.

Hero of the towers, ghost of the rock: behind the legend, a hunger for legitimacy.

Portrait of the man who revolutionized French rock climbing.