Aiguille Blanche de Peuterey
On the southwest ridge of Mont Blanc, the Aiguille Blanche de Peuterey (4,112 m) stands out like a sovereign monolith, dominated by the vertiginous ridges of the mythical Crête de Peuterey. Its slopes, indented with snowy corridors and rocky towers, evoke both the roughness of granite and the softness of Italian light. For those who venture onto these slopes, the experience is a journey into the essence of mountaineering, combining difficulty and splendor.
Thomas Crauwels sees the Aiguille Blanche de Peuterey as a summit where verticality meets poetry. His images capture the precise moment when the sun's rays set the rock ablaze, when the wind lifts the snow on a tapering ridge, or when the fog lends the wall a ghostly atmosphere. These photographs reveal the intimate beauty of a summit that, far from the crowds, reveals the purest face of the Mont Blanc massif.