Fossils ... remember those days of dachstein mittens, and crazy colors (after the wool and earth tones of the 1970s)? Days without leashless tools, no wire gate carabiners, no turbo screws, and no helmets. Well even with these handicaps, hardmen climbed some amazing stuff, back in the day. This six part video (in nine minute sections) tells the story of Christophe Profit's (pronounced Pro-fee) amazing winter solo climbs of the three classic north faces of the alps. (Cick on the text to access Part 1.)
Filmed around March 1987 the solo winter ascent by Christophe Profit of the three classic north faces in the Alps. The Grande Jorrasses, Eiger and the Matterhorn (Cervin) north faces all climbed in under 48 hours ...!
The summer of 1985 was the year in which he enchained the trilogy of North Faces the Eiger, Matterhorn and Grandes Jorasses (up the Shroud), in just 24 hours. He later repeated this feat in winter in under 48 hours (March 1987) by climbing the Croz Spur on the Grandes Jorasses, the Heckmair route on the Eiger North Face and the Schmid route on the Matterhorn solo in winter in a record 42 hours.
Sadly now no longer available this documentary film has been my motivation and climbing inspiration over the past 20 odd years. It was salvaged from some old VHS video tape onto DVD before being split and uploaded onto YouTube just a few weeks ago.
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