Québec ice trip makes always mad, but f***ing happy...

There is nothing better than feeling the cold when you get out from Montreal Airport and listening a strong (but sweet) accent, asking you if you want some beans with your poutine meal??...

Mathieu Péloquin - Our friend & Guide Québécquois...


To figure out how was the feeling of this trip: you should imagine six mens visiting a Quebec climbers familly, having a dinner on a 20 m2 dining room, crashing on the ground to sleep until 11h and then making "an alpine start" at 12h o'clock to go to Lake Willoughby, by -20°C and 40km/h of wind for a nice multi-pitch route...

The Lake Willoughby - A wild playground for every kind of ice climbing...


Tony was the machine to talk and to take the pictures. Erwan and Guigui were masters of logistics and creation... And Mémé, Simon and I were always complaining about a too hard climbing program with schedule and ice to tinny...

The tiny start of "CHOP SHOP" [M8]



At Pont-Rouge, we did this famous competition : FESTIGLACE, wich is not a real comp, but more a super excuse to meet some climbers from everywhere and pump your arms as hell for climbing as many routes as you can in a day.

The Petzl Team in action! Or just before...


Erwan and I took the opportunity to did a small Skydiving demo at noon into the canyon, by a strong wind wich was a quite cold and scary...

At last, if you want to see some big airs on a mixed and ice roof with 3 NOMICS for the attemps, if you want to watch the incredible muscles of Simon Wandeler and if you want to see a big mess session on Cathedral Ledge (at North Conway) > WATCH THE VIDEO !
And you will learn more about the near missings of ice climbing...
But don't forget what you gonna watch is nothing true, except smiles, laughs, and pleasure...


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Watch the Quebec Ice trip video (English version).
Take a while and have a seat, it's 35mn !!



DOWNLOAD the movie in high resolution format (Quicktime.6 - H264 codec - 415 Mo).

Thanks to Pascal Foster & Luc Guillot for the voices over, thanks to all the musicians who created some very nice songs for the movie. Please visit their website !


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Pour les non-anglophones, vous pouvez aussi voir la vidéo en Québecquois !
Prenez un siège, c'est aussi 35mn...



TELECHARGEZ le film en haute résolution (Quicktime.6 - H264 codec - 415 Mo).


The Photo Gallery :
The pictures of our climber/photographer : Tony Lamiche.
It's to give you a quick overview of what could be the ice climb in Québec.
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The poster of the film
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To be continued !