Portrait of Pierre Allain, the "very pure light of the rock", as his students called him, in whom all generations agree to recognize the father of modern mountaineering. Pierre Allain receives from the hands of Marcel Ichac the Legion of ...See morePortrait of Pierre Allain, the "very pure light of the rock", as his students called him, in whom all generations agree to recognize the father of modern mountaineering. Pierre Allain receives from the hands of Marcel Ichac the Legion of Honor. In Fontainebleau, he finds the climbing partners of his youth. Images from an archive film show Pierre Allain demonstrating climbing techniques on the rocks of Fontainebleau in the 1930s, there were only a few dozen climbers in Fontainebleau. He then returns by helicopter to the north face of the Drus, which he conquered half a century earlier. Pierre Allain receives Laurent Chevallier in the workshop where he produces more than thirty thousand carabiners each year. Written by
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