1. Life of
Are you made for the van life? How much does life on the road cost? What should you plan for before leaving for a long trip? Inspiring, the book answers the essential questions about van life. Throughout the pages, we follow Julien Roussin Côté, founder of the Go-Van blog, and his collaborators, to the four corners of the world. From Quebec to Louisiana, via the Swiss Alps or Tierra del Fuego, these enthusiasts of beautiful encounters share with us their favorites, their thoughts, their advice and their itinerary suggestions.
2. The chili tooth
Everest was named in 1865, the year the Matterhorn was climbed; in 1950, the Malabar Princess crashed into Mont Blanc five months to the day after the victorious ascent of Annapurna; in 1970, Reinhold Messner returned alone from Nanga Parbat a month after the collective and cacophonous success of the English on the south face of Annapurna.
This book traces the history of mountaineering in a hundred dates and revisits with humor the decisive moments of the discipline. A pleasure to read, an opportunity to revise the classics and (re)discover hidden corners of the history of mountaineering, illuminated by the light curiosity of Thomas Vennin.
3. In Praise of Fear for Adventurers… and Everyday Adventurers
Gérard Guerrier explores a subject that is at the heart of our societies today: fear. But not just any fear: the chosen fear, the one accepted and sometimes sought by adventurers, explorers, but also the everyday one. In this essay, philosophers and sociologists, base jumpers and freeriders, explorers, mountaineers and sailors engage in dialogue beyond History, beyond their experience and knowledge, on fear, their fears, the management they make of them or that slips through their hands.
4. The most secret wonders of the world
Discover singing trees, crawling stones, a museum at the bottom of the sea, the caves of sculptor Ra Paulette in New Mexico, or the hats of Celendin in Peru. Born from the madness of men or the whims of nature, the sites gathered in this beautiful collection of photographs and drawings of unusual sites will surprise even the most jaded of travelers.
5. The pace of happiness
A mother and full-time worker, Nathalie Bisson smoked for 22 years and had never really exercised in her life. To convince herself not to move, she had a host of good excuses. She could also have invoked the fact that her body was giving her trouble: a degenerative disease was attacking her joints. But no. Instead of a wheelchair, she bought a stationary bike.
In nine years, she went from being sedentary to being a marathon runner. Her recipe? She swapped performance for perseverance and understood that there is no point in always running. To the escalation of times, she opposes her ” pace of happiness”, a cadence that makes her alternate between walking and running, according to her body’s moods, with the finish line as her only goal. And what is true for running is true for life!
