REPLAY | Climbing an 8,000 - Interview with Bernard Muller

In this interview, Bernard Muller, one of France's most renowned expedition leaders at very high altitude, talks about our expedition to Everest, from which he has just returned, other 8,000 meters peaks and their characteristics, the reasons why some climbers want to get close to the ‘death zone’, the key factors in the success of such summits, their preparation, general and local organisation, oxygen...

He himself has reached six of the world's fourteen summits over 8,000 meters and has led dozens of expeditions over 8,000 meters. Having passionately traversed 40 years of the history of mountaineering at very high altitude at a time when access to it was becoming more democratic, he answers questions from Eric Bonnem, founder of Secret Planet, and David Ducoin, head of the Himalayas and Latin America sector. Bernard also supervises several of our École de l'Aventure mountaineering courses in the Alps. 

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