Nick (England)

Some paths we choose. Others seem to choose us. When John contacts me a few months earlier, his request comes down to one sentence: “I’d like to share an experience with my son.” He doesn’t really mention...

The silence of the mountains is not an absence. It is an encounter. When Kika writes to me in the autumn, we hardly talk about mountains at all. After the Tour du Mont Blanc and the Haute Route from Chamonix to Zermatt,...

A pot simmering over the fire. Ten days around Mont Blanc. A mountain that soon became a story shared by six people. For months, the journey existed through emails, most of them from Missy. We talked about hiking,...