Christian Ravier

Christian Ravier, born in 1964 at Sarlat-la-Canéda in France, is a mountaineer and high mountain guide. Born in 1964, Christian Ravier grew up in Bordeaux. His father Jean and his uncle Pierre have a ritual of their own: leaving the city to climb the most challenging routes one can dare, for example at Ossau. Living legends of Pyrenees, the twin brothers sometimes take their sons. An icy bivouac at the age of fifteen at the Cirque de Barroude leaves its mark on Christian. "It's the race where they passed on their passion to me." From 1982, he settled between Pau and the Aspe valley. Years of climbing later, he climbs with the same flame. A free electron in the mountain planet of the Berlioz district, he lives in Pau. "I like life in the city because you meet other people there." City dweller, but not just anywhere: Berlioz cultivates the non-urban particularity of playing on the direct connection between men and peaks, with associations (1) marking the way like so many cairns. This ...