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L’ensemble de la station de Serre-chevalier : j'ai passé des moments très agréables sur ces pistes ! Peu de choses ont changé depuis #Proxima à bord de la Station, mais quand on observe la Terre on voit une différence fondamentale : c’est l’été dans l’hémisphère nord (alors que ma première mission était en hiver !). En Europe, ça se remarque particulièrement aux sommets des Alpes qui sont bien moins enneigés. Personnellement bien que né et ayant grandi bien loin des Alpes, j’adore la montagne en toute saison que ce soit pour randonner, escalader, skier, faire du VTT ou tout simplement pour admirer leurs paysages à couper le souffle. Voici 2 lieux où démarrent de nombreuses aventures quelle que soit la température : Gap et Serre-Chevalier. Les Alpes du Sud ont, en plus, un petit côté méridional !
Serre-Chevalier station, spent many great moments sliding down these slopes!
Even though the air in the Space Station is pretty much exactly the same as during my last mission, one thing is different: looking down at Earth, the northern hemisphere is in the Summer this time. This is noticeable in the Alps where there is less snow covering the mountaintops. Luckily the French Alps are a joy in all seasons be it for walking, mountain biking, skiing, paragliding or just enjoying the amazing views. Two places where many adventures start whatever the temperature: Gap and Serre-Chevalier.
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet
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The view from the montseuc belvedere overlooking the valley around Cogne, just a few days ago, in the gran paradiso national park.
Just going through my harddrive...not 100% sure where I took this...i'm pretty sure its in the French Alps somewhere...
The view is as the title really. We had crossed over the Swiss border and into Italy on the tour du mont blanc in 2008. I'm doing a tour of my archives! Not posted this before!
“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” - Edmund Hillary - conqueror Everest; d.12 Jan 2008
Taken from the top of the Rognon du Plan on the Plan - Midi traverse in August 1988. Shot with an Olympus XA-2 on slide film and scanned.
A woodpile, in the woodyard next to the press area in Seynes-Les-Alpes for the Germanwings Airbus crash.
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The Southern Alps are the nearly 500 km-long mountainous backbone of New Zealand's South Island. They exisit due to the active convergent boundary between the Pacific and Australian tectonics plates. This boundary is expressed by the Alpine Fault and associated fault systems, and lies on the western side of the alps. This view is looking south along the mountains, on approach into Christchurch Airport, and encomapsses a large part of Te Wahipounamu World Heritage Area.
The prominent river valley is that of the Rakaia River. The Jollie Range lies behind the river. The Butler Range, and numerous glaciers, lies in the centre-right of the image.
The country's highest mountain, Aoraki-Mount Cook (3724 m; the name "Aoraki" is Maori for cloud-piercer), is visible in the right background. Mount Tasman, the country's second-highest mountain (3497 M), lies slightly to the right of Mount Cook.