PODCAST #EP2: CHARLEY RADCLIFFE – LIFE IN CHAMONIX, COMMUNITY & THE GREAT CONFINEMENT BAKE OFF
Charley Radcliffe, Community Manager for The North Face in Chamonix, blogger, and cake aficionado is our guest for the second episode of the Transylvania Mountain Festival Podcast, Chamonix 2020 Summer Season. Happiest when he is in the mountains climbing, skiing and running, he moved to Chamonix in 2014 to live the dream of a more balanced life between working and the great outdoors. As an aspiring alpinist and adventurer, he is currently focusing on seeing where he can [...]
Interview: MIHNEA PRUNDEANU – ON MOUNTAIN PASSION
#interview #MihneaPrundeanu #TMFExpedition #Garmin #rockclimbing #alpinism #FullTimeChallenge Lots of determination and a healthy dose of humour: this is in a few words Mihnea Prundeanu, alpinist, IFMGA mountain guide and geographer. With a rich alpinism and climbing palmares, Mihnea Prundeanu has succeeded impressive ascents in the great mountain ranges of the world: Himalaya, Cordillera Blanca, Alps, Thian Shan, Patagonia, Sierra Nevada range and Alaska mountains. His passion for the mountains was born and nourished here, in [...]
PODCAST #EP1: COSMIN ANDRON – ON PHILOSOPHY, CLIMBING & MOUNTAIN GUIDING
For the first episode of the #onthego Transylvania Mountain Festival Podcast we invited longtime friend Cosmin Andron as a guest. Cosmin is an educator, philosopher, PADI divemaster and IFMGA mountain guide and also the initiator of Eastern European Mountain Guides Association. EEMGA was set up in February 2016 as a programme meant to establish a consistent training for professional Mountain Guides in East European countries, without IFMGA member associations. EEMGA has since successfully trained the first generation [...]
Interview: COSMIN BERGHEAN – The Photographer Who Brings To Surface The Underworld
#interview #CosminBerghean #TMFAward #photography #speleology A passion led by audacious dreams, backed up by an impressive attention to details and to the environment best describe Cosmin Berghean – speleologist and both nature and cave photographer. Bringing each time an original photography contribution, Cosmin Berghean was the big winner of the Transylvania Mountain Festival 2018 Mountain Photography Award and one of the shortlisted candidates for 2019! We had the chance to meet Cosmin on the occasion fo the [...]
KYRIAKOS ROSSIDIS – Breaking the Barriers Within
#interview #KyriakosRossides #TMF2019 #TMFRocksShow #rockclimbing #mountaineering #FullTimeChallenge Born and raised in Kyperounda, a beautiful setting within the mountains in Cyprus, IFMGA mountain guide Kyriakos Rossidis found his passion for the outdoors from an early age. Having the mountains on his doorstep allowed him to explore different sports, before settling for 10 years of ski racing and competitions. He discovered climbing later on and decided to study BSc Outdoor Studies with Sport Science in UK. In 2018 he [...]
Mathieu Maynadier – High Energy and The Desire to Explore
#interview #MathieuMaynadier #TMF2019 #TMFRocksShow #rockclimbing #mountaineering #ThePathanProject Let’s put together a nuclear energy and an extremely curious mind: this is Mathieu Maynadier, one of France's leading young alpinists. Remarked by the international mountaineering and climbing community for being part of audacious ascents, like the Luang II (6830 m) which received a nomination for the Piolet d’Or in 2011, and opening new routes in Nepal (like the South Face of Gauri Shankar or the new route up Mount [...]
Interview: David Fusté Vilella – Passion Is Our Best Engine
#interview #DavidFusteVilella #TMF2019 #TMFRocksShow #climbing #flying #soloBASE When you can imagine yourself doing something, nothing will stand against you. This is how we introduce to you David Fusté Vilella an authentic free thinker, free flyer, free climber and free jumper. The idea of freedom, of living in tune with Nature’s rhythms and changes, manifests through David’s entire life and that is why probably he succeeds most of what he is putting his mind up to. From making [...]
INTERVIEW: ALEXANDRE AUCHECORNE – MOUNTAIN RESCUE REQUIRES CONSTANT ADAPTABILITY
#interview #AlexandreAuchecorne #SpecialGuest #StepIntoTheMountains #PGHM Alexandre Auchecorne on stage at Transylvania Mountain Festival 2019 / foto: Gabriel Roșca Alexandre Auchecorne from PGHM Briancon, IFMGA mountain guide represented PGHM at the 2019 edition of Transylvania Mountain Festival, where he explained how mountain rescue is organised and which is the role of the Mountain Rescue in France. He answered the questions of a curious public about climbing Mont-Blanc and the practice of mountain guiding in France. Alexandre Auchecorne [...]
Bogdan BOB Rădulescu on freedom and mountains @TMF19
@ TRANSYLVANIA MOUNTAIN FESTIVAL 2019 powered by GARMIN Mountains are a space of FREEDOM and our amazing show host - Bogdan Bob Radulescu sends us a powerfull message on how FREE he feels at our friendly Transylvania Mountain Festival in Cluj-Napoca! Thank you BOB! A message that we invite you all to share to your friends who love outdoor sports! #TMF19 #StepIntoTheMountains #outdoorsports #mountainfestival #Garmin #Nikon