Prepare
Maps, aerial imagery, local conversations and logistics: laying solid foundations before setting off.
ALPS · MOUNTAINS OF THE WORLD
LES GRANDS
RAIDS
À SKI
Explore · improvise · meet · ski
A CERTAIN IDEA OF TRAVEL
Drawing
horizontal lines.
Travelling from place to place shapes both the way I ski tour and my relationship with the mountains.
From valley to valley, village to village, bivouac to bivouac: each route is carefully prepared, then leaves real room for the terrain, the snow and the people we meet.
Read the philosophy ↗WINTER 2027
A season
to be written.
Five journeys shaped by travelling, exploring and whatever the terrain allows us to write along the way.
2027
Five journeys.
A season to be written.
17 — 26 JANGEORGIA › LESSER CAUCASUSFrom the volcanoes of Javakheti to the deep snows of Adjara and Guria.↗04 — 13 FEBUZBEKISTAN › HISSARExploration followed by a journey from village to village.↗20 FEB — 01 MARARMENIA › SEVAN → ARAGATSForests, high plateaux and volcanic summits.↗06 — 14 MARMEDITERRANEAN SKI TRAVERSEWinter will decide the destination.↗21 — 29 MARTAJIKISTAN › ZERAVSHANThe most committing traverse of the season.↗
PREPARE · IMPROVISE · CONNECT
“Prepare meticulously, so that you can then improvise.”
Improvise
Accepting that the group, snow, weather and terrain will write the other half of the story.
Connect
Valleys, villages, bivouacs and the people who live there. Travelling through, rather than collecting summits.
FIELD JOURNALS
Past journeys
leave their mark.
SEP 2026
BERNINA — AROUND THE MASSIF
A ski tour around the Bernina massif, among glaciers, moraines, mountain huts and high-altitude bivouac shelters.
SEP 2026
ARGENTERA — MERCANTOUR
A transalpine traverse shaped by wind, wolves and life on the move.
SEP 2026
LIGURIAN ALPS
A ski traverse through the valleys and villages of the Ligurian Alps.
PROJECTS
Traverse, investigate, tell the story.
Projects in which travelling through the mountains also becomes a way to explore, document and tell the stories of mountain regions.
QUEYRAS · 2022
TRANSITION — AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL SKI JOURNEY
Five days on skis bringing a region, its inhabitants and the social sciences into conversation, at the meeting point of mountain guiding and geographical research.
Discover the project →ALPS TRAVERSES
2015
ALPINE LINE
A long traverse of the Alps without motorised transport, undertaken with Yoann Joly: from Monte Cinto in Corsica to Triglav in Slovenia. For 161 days, we linked the mountain ranges on foot, by bike, on touring and Nordic skis, by paraglider, under sail and by kayak. A long, open-ended amateur journey of travelling, mountaineering and the unexpected.
Watch the Alpine Line film →SINCE 2024
A GUIDED TRAVERSE OF THE ALPS
In 2024, I began a second traverse of the Alps, this time as a guide and entirely on touring skis. Each year, we cover around a hundred kilometres, finding our way through the ranges as our wishes and the conditions suggest.
MOUNTAINS FACING THE SEA
SKI MED
From Morocco’s High Atlas to the Pindus mountains of Greece, from Italy’s Ligurian Alps to the ranges of southern Turkey: ski touring journeys in the heart of the Mediterranean mountains. Another way to experience winter, where snow is scarce and contrasts with a seemingly endless horizon.
Explore the Mediterranean ski journeys →
MOUNTAIN GUIDE · GEOGRAPHER
Yann
Borgnet.
From Annecy, an IFMGA mountain guide, lecturer at ENSA and doctor of geography.
My research into the future of Alpine tourism has nurtured an interest in inhabited mountains: places we encounter as much as travel through.
Discover my background →