Alpine Break

The probatoire is over and the great news is that I passed. This means that I have been accepted onto the course to become an Accompagnateur en Moyenne Montagne, this is the same as the International Mountain Leader course in the UK. Over here the selection criteria is a bit harder.
The probatoire lasted two full [...]

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This is a great walk starting in the splendour of the hidden valley of the Escreins. It is a deep and green valley, lined on either side by dramatic and colourful limestone cliffs and crested by tormented and jagged peaks. It is this wild remoteness coupled with the lack of any permanent inhabitants in this [...]

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