I was born in Romans in the Drôme. I started my climbing career
when I was two on the steep stairs of my family home.
I was born in Romans in the Drôme. I started my climbing career
when I was two on the steep stairs of my family home.
In 1992 I became a qualified guide. Rock climbing is my passion and I live at Presles (the French climbers' Mecca) where I work with dedication and enthusiasm as a professional guide.
I devote a lot of time to opening high level routes but I also greatly enjoy discovering more accessible ones for my clients. Examples are the hardest route up the Presles cliff, Badaboum (12 lengths between 7a and 8a which I opened in 1991 and immediately free climbed) and the easiest, Bim Bam Boum (3 lengths between 4 and 5).
For 10 years I also trained candidate guides. The warm human relations that develop during expeditions in the mountains are amongst the greatest satisfactions I get from my profession.
For the last two years my partner Dominique and I have been living in a beautiful farmhouse that we renovated on the clifftop. If you hear the bushes shaking with laughter it is probably because the children Léa and Adrien are playing there.
Always cheerful.
Likes cranking on hyphens and dots.
Tidy as any Swiss.
Great handyman.
Perfectly masters two languages : french and swiss (french), also get by in
English.
Can't spell.
Loves sausages.
Adores Swiss chocolate.
Lousy cook (forgets the water when cooking spaghetti).
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| The guide's house in winter, Le Charmeil, Presles |
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| The guide's house, from the kitchen |
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