More berets by Jean-Marc Rochette, in his beautiful graphic novel Ailefroide, altitude 3954 (Altitude, in English).
Altitude offers an exhilarating, autobiographical account of
writer and artist Jean-Marc Rochette’s early life as a mountain climber.
Together with co-writer Olivier Bocquet, they recount
Jean-Marc’s passion for mountain climbing as a teenager, from when he
discovered how the Alps held an escape for him at a formative time in his life,
to the realisation that this frozen playground can also be a place of danger
and fatal beauty.
Set against the backdrop of the terrifying but magnificent
natural beauty of the French Alps, Altitude is an impassioned tale of how
physical endurance can help scale dreams and mountain peaks.
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