LET’S BUILD TOGETHER
THE FREE, INDEPENDENT, AND COMMITTED CLIMBING MEDIA
The Vertige Club — Make a donation
💡 To join the Club, set up a monthly donation starting at €5 per month.
MEMBER
BELAYER
€5 per month
9€ per month
ROC STAR
€19 per month
LEGEND
€100 per month
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The “free solo” version of our newsletters: no sponsored content.
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Invitations to Vertige events and online meet-ups with special guests, so everyone can take part.
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Negotiated rates at all public events we attend, across France.
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The benefits of being a member.
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Three times a year, you’re invited to weigh in and help shape the major decisions about your media’s future: new formats, new series, new projects…
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You’ll also join our base camp of supporters: the Vertige Media Discord. An exclusive space where we exchange ideas, debate, and build the future of the media together.
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The benefits of the Belayer status
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You’ll gain access to a private WhatsApp group and receive, every Monday, the list of upcoming articles to discuss with the editorial team.
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Your name featured in the credits of our new Vertige formats.
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The benefits of Roc Star status
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Once a year: a legendary dinner with the editorial team.
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You’ll receive Vertige Media’s full, detailed annual activity report. Everything — and we mean everything — about the media.
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For eternity: your name displayed on the “About Us” page of Vertige Media.
Together, let’s defend independent, committed, high-standard climbing journalism.
There’s urgency.
As the sport is booming, stories are becoming standardized, independent voices are fading, and climbing is too often reduced to podiums and performances.
At Vertige Media, we believe we can talk about climbing differently — by treating it as a social, cultural, and political phenomenon.
Our editorial promise? To broaden climbing’s reach. To reveal what it says about our collective aspirations, our contradictions, our transformations. To stand up for a practice that’s open to everyone — regardless of gender, disability, or background — respectful of the environment, and free from purely commercial logic.
For the past 18 months, our editorial team has been uncovering information, spotlighting new faces, and shaping new narratives. To keep going — and to further develop our investigations, analysis, and video work — we need you.
Support Vertige Media and become one of our first founding donors. Help us keep an independent, free, and committed climbing media alive.
Journalism that lives up to the climb
Since its launch, Vertige Media has established itself as a truly distinct voice in the climbing landscape. Tens of thousands of you now read us — and share our work.
Thanks to this collective support, our small team can:
👉 Publish 5 free-access articles every week on vertigemedia.fr
👉 Produce videos and investigations on the practice, the places, the struggles, and the transformations of the climbing world
👉 Write one newsletter per week
👉 Run social media channels followed by tens of thousands of passionate climbers
👉 Document the cultural, ecological, and social issues of climbing — often overlooked elsewhere
👉 Organize public meet-ups and screenings to bring the community together around a shared ambition: defending an independent voice
And we do all of that without relying solely on ads and brands — and without answering to billionaires.
Your support helps us protect our editorial independence, so we can investigate, write, and film without compromise — and spend our time on what truly matters: producing high-quality journalism about the climbing world.
Tie in!
💛 The Vertige Club: what is it — and what are the benefits?
The Vertige Club is a community of climbers and curious minds from the vertical world who want to keep independent, demanding, passionate climbing journalism alive. You don’t need to be a setter, an athlete, or a journalist to join: you just need to love climbing — and want to see it through a fresh lens.
Club members support the media through a monthly donation. By joining the Vertige Club, you can:
👉 Join an exclusive discussion group to follow the editorial team behind the scenes
👉 Get early invitations to our screenings, talks, and public events
👉 Take part in members-only meet-ups (online or in person)
👉 Have a say in the media’s editorial choices
🧗 Your donation makes an impact!
Beyond the Club’s perks, your donation supports causes that are meaningful, concrete, and long-lasting:
✅ Sustain an independent media outlet that covers climbing differently.
✅ Help a small team of journalists, videographers, and writers investigate, write, film, and document how the climbing world is changing.
✅ Keep our content accessible to everyone — with no paywall — so the love of climbing is never reserved for a privileged few.
✅ Ensure Vertige Media stays free and doesn’t rely solely on advertisers.
And that’s exactly what the Vertige Club is here to protect and strengthen. We truly believe that the more we reduce the share of commercial work in our balance, the more our journalism can thrive.
👀 What do we do with your donations?
The route is solid.
Every euro you give helps fund high-quality journalism.
With your support, we’ll also be able to work with independent journalists, photographers, illustrators, and filmmakers across France — and soon beyond.
Your donations will help sustain an entire ecosystem of passionate, committed people determined to show a different side of climbing.
First Vertige Party Evening — Roundtable with Eline Le Menestrel and Alain Robert
🤓 Frequently Asked Questions
