The pleasure of climbing mountains, and the joy of bringing back an account of them.

I grew up in Brussels, in the heart of the flat country. But my love of mountains soon revealed itself: first through our many family trips to Valais when I was a child, then during a three-month stay in the Canadian Rockies, when I was barely 15.

At the age of 20, I decided it was time to move closer to the mountains I loved so much, and settled in Switzerland, first in Lausanne, then in the Val d'Hérens, in Vex. It was in the summer of 2021 that I decided to climb a mountain that had become particularly dear to my heart, one I could see every day from my new home: the Dent Blanche.

The happiness I felt during that ascent spurred me on to visit all the other summits of the Alpine arc that rise above the symbolic altitude of 4000 metres.

This summit journal gathers the stories of all these adventures.