French mountaineer Catherine Destivelle will become the first woman to receive the Piolet d'Or Carrière Lifetime Achievement Award at the Ladek Mountain Festival in Poland in September. In the past ...

It is dangerous to lean out…Those who climbed in the ’80’s have no doubts whatsoever: these words evoke one particular image. That of a girl clinging to the rock with just one hand, suspended high ...

At 31, and with four world climbing championship titles to her name, Catherine Destivelle had already amassed numerous mountaineering achievements, notably the ascent of the Trango Tower in the ...

"To be a good climber, or good mountain climber, you need two qualities. The most important is to have confidence and to have the determination to do something," Catherine Destivelle said while ...

Catherine Destivelle is an ambassador for the French Alps and is well known in France and abroad. In Beyond the Summits, viewers will feel like they are climbing up the mountain with her. The film ...

CLIMBING — Take time out to enjoy this 1987 film that set a standard for climbing pictures. Not only is the climber a beauty with bulletproof shoulders, the film is as masterpiece of staging and ...

Catherine Destivelle sarà protagonista venerdì 28 agosto dell’ultimo appuntamento della quarta edizione della rassegna.

Ultimo appuntamento 2026 della rassegna di cultura alpinistica: ingresso libero alle 21 nella Sala consiliare del Municipio.