FKT: Pierre Gignoux, Stéphane Brosse - Mont Blanc (France) - 2003-05-30

Route variation
Round trip from Chamonix ON SKIS
Multi-sport
No
Gender category
Male
Style
Supported
Finish date
Total time
5h 15m 0s
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The first ski record on Mont Blanc. Stephane and Pierre carried all their own kit, but had some support on mountain (nutrition, water, skin track broken, some help seen in video footage of them transitioning (helping them put on crampons, pack, etc)). Their time was the fastest ski record to date, but failed to break the existing running record at the time (Pierre-André Gobet 1990 5:10)

Excellent article: https://www.volopress.net/spip.php?article188

Excellent video: https://www.ina.fr/ina-eclaire-actu/video/2245482001030/record-d-ascenc…

Ten years later retrospective on the effort interview with Gignoux: https://web.archive.org/web/20141216210242/http://s296355242.onlinehome…