The all white day...
It was a promising sight when I first peered out of the window this morning. Beyond the wet glass and besides a constant tapping of the rain, the mountains across the bay were covered in snow. Well, the temperature decided to drop at last. Our destination in the Glen Coe range was about two-hour walk away. But as I tried to catch as much as a glimpse of where we were heading, all I could actually see was a decently steep and long snow slope ahead of us, disappearing into white.

As checked out the previous day, it is warm outside...and still raining.
The bravest of us are awake around 7.30am for the scottish cooked breakfast.

For what seems forever will this thaw ever come to an end?
After waiting with excitement for the last couple of months for the guys to arrive, all seems to be falling apart... Wanting so much to show people how good Scottish winter climbing can be things are off to a slow wet start.

February 24th. 3.45am.

Final destination towards Inverness, Scotland.

This film festival began for his second winter edition in Chamonix.
It will last until the 21th of February, and gather all the best outdoor filming crews.
A quick resume of what this festival features...

In Mid-December, I flew to Nepal with Ines Papert (Germany), Jen Olson (Canada), Cory Richards (USA) and Chris Alstrin (USA).  Our goal was to try to open a new route on the North Face of Kwangde Lho (6187m).

The Zillertal Roctrip movie [26mn].

Team Petzl took RocTrip to the granite wonderland of Zillertal, Austria the summer of 2008. The international star power was unrivaled, with the best climbers from Spain, USA, Sweden, France, Great-Britain, the Netherlands and Iran all throwing themselves at the boulders and cliffs of this magical valley. Featuring: Dani Andrada, Lynn Hill, Lisa Rands, Dave Graham, Steve McClure, Marcus Bock, Jorg Verhoeven, Gérôme Pouvreau, Said Belhaj, Chris Sharma and many others...
 

From The Alpine Briefs - issue 2

Ildi Pellissier et Marie Berthelot sont parties au Pérou à l'été 2008, avec la Bourse du comité régional FFCAM Rhône-Alpes. Objectifs : La Esfinge (Sphinx) et la Cordillère Huayhuash.

Ueli Steck finds himself in perfect physical conditions. For the past few weeks, the weather in the Alps has been beautiful and the conditions on the great Northfaces in the Alps have been great . After Ueli Steck's speed record on the Grandes Jorasses over the Colton-Macintyre route, it was very likely, that he was also going to try to establish a new speed record on the Matterhorn. Although in 2006 Ueli set up a new record on the difficult Bonatti
route in 25 hours, this time he would try to break the record on the
classic Schmid route on the Matterhorn Northface.