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On 31 May 2025 Italy's William Boffelli set a new Chamonix - Mont Blanc record, stopping the clock after 4 hours 43 minutes. Here's the video of the new Fastest Known Time.

On 31 May 2025 the Italian ski mountaineer William Boffelli set a new Chamonix - Mont Blanc record, stopping the clock after 4 hours 43 minutes. The previous Fastest Known Time had been set by Benjamin Vedrines a week ago.

On 24 May 2025, French mountaineer benjamin védrines required 4 hours, 54 minutes, and 41 seconds to complete the round trip from Chamonix to the summit of Mont Blanc. Here's the first video of the new Fastest Known Time.

Two new fastest known times have been set on Mont Blanc: Èlise Poncet ascended from the church to the summit and back in 6:54, while benjamin védrines, via a different route, required 4 hours and 54 minutes.

The film 'Edge of Reason' that documents the record breaking ascent of Broad Peak carried out by benjamin védrines in 7 hours 28 minutes on 19 July 2022. The French mountaineer then became the first person in the world to...

This April French alpinists benjamin védrines and Léo Billon climbed the three great north faces of the Alps in less than a week. Védrines enchained the Eiger, Matterhorn and Grandes Jorasses without using motorised transport.

From 17 to 21 February 2025, French climber benjamin védrines completed a solo winter ascent of the BASE route on the West Face of the Drus in the Mont Blanc massif.

Starting from Advanced Base Camp, on 28 July 2024 French alpinist benjamin védrines climbed K2 without supplementary oxygen in just 10 hours 59 minutes and 59 seconds.

French mountaineers Léo Billon and benjamin védrines have completed an exceptional trilogy, climbing the north faces of the Drus, Les Droites and the Grandes Jorasses in just three days and in the middle of winter. The enchainment was described as...

The video of French mountaineer benjamin védrines who, starting from the car park, climbed Aiguille Dibona (3130m) via the Madier route in 1 hour and 24 minutes.

The video of French alpinists Léo Billon, Sébastien Ratel and benjamin védrines climbing the famous three north faces of the Alps, the Grandes Jorasses, the Eiger and the Matterhorn in winter 2022.

On 15 February 2022 French alpinists Léo Billon and benjamin védrines needed less than 10 hours to climb the difficult ‘Gousseault-Desmaison’ on the north face of the Grandes Jorasses. First ascended by René Desmaison and Serge Gousseaut in 1971, this...

Between 28 and 29 January 2023 the French alpinists Julien Cruvellier, Nicolas Jean and benjamin védrines made the first ascent of 'De l'Or en Barre' a difficult mixed climb on the south face of the Barre des Écrins (4102 m)....

12,330 meters of altitude gain and a 138 km integral traverse, over a period of two days, solo, across the Queyras mountains from Vars to Villard. This, in short, is the ski mountaineering traverse carried out by French mountaineer Benjamin...

With their repeat of the Gogna-Cerruti climb on the Matterhorn the French mountaineers Leo Billon, Sébastien Ratel and benjamin védrines have completed their project of climbing the three great north faces of the Alps in winter via three Direttissima.

From 24 to 26 January 2022 French mountaineers Leo Billon, Sébastien Ratel and benjamin védrines repeated Directe de l'Amitié on the north face of the Grandes Jorasses in the Mont Blanc massif.