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J'ai passé pas mal de temps à creuser l'histoire de Gore-Tex pour une vidéo, et franchement j'ai découvert des trucs qui m'ont surpris, surtout autour du scandale des PFAS !!

Quelques points qui m'ont marqué :

- Les membranes Gore-Tex sont à base d'ePTFE, directement lié à la famille des PFAS (les fameux "polluants éternels")

- Ces substances s'accumulent dans le corps et l'environnement pendant des décennies

- En France, les premières interdictions concrètes dans le textile datent seulement de janvier 2026

- Des alternatives existent déjà (Sympatex, Dermizax, Pertex Shield) et certaines marques comme Picture ou Patagonia les utilisent

J'ai aussi mis un chapitre entretien parce que la plupart des vestes peuvent être sauvées avec une lessive adaptée et un imperméabilisant, les marques ont tendance à pas trop en parler pour des raisons évidentes.

Si ça vous intéresse j'ai fait une vidéo complète qui couvre tout ça, de l'histoire de l'entreprise jusqu'aux alternatives :

https://youtu.be/5Bqb_T0y1MI

Et vous, vous avez déjà switché sur une membrane sans PFAS ?

Posted on his Instagram.

"El Pilar Este runs on the left side of the imposing East Face of Cerro Chaltén, first climbed to the summit by Ragni Di Lecco in 1976. I climbed the first few pitches when I freed a variation of El Corazón with Nico Favresse in 2009 and I always wondered if the whole line would go free. In 2015, Matteo Della Bordella and others took down the gear left behind by the FA team during the second ascent, leaving the route in better condition for repeaters. Fair play to them for all that work!

My friend Tasio and I started climbing early on March 6 and the ice axe quickly became our most important tool. We would clean ice out of the crack to make space for a hand jam, hang the axe over the shoulder, jam in the hand, grab the axe with the other hand and hack away at the ice in the next section. Needless to say progress was slow, but we kept going just to see how far we could go.

Probably the best pitch was a difficult, laser-cut seam cutting diagonally across a blank face, with thin finger locks for handholds and crystals for feet. I fell after a good onsight fight and thought there was very little chance of redpointing, but I decided to give it a lash. To my surprise I sent the pitch cleanly!

Tasio was the best partner I could have wished for, always positive and up for anything. At one point I broke off a foothold just as he looked up and he received a rock straight to his face. "Don’t worry, keep climbing,” he said, as blood gushed from the cut on his nose. He taped it up and that was the end of that.

Despite an especially wintry two days, we freed every pitch and reached the summit on March 8. We celebrated with some Basque cheese, a little tune on the tin whistle and then started the rappels down Franco Argentina with very low visibility and strong winds.

It was a great and memorable adventure, and to have shared it with Tasio makes it all the more special!

Content: Tasio Martin

Hey! My friend and I are planning a trip to Montenegro at the end of June. I’m highly interested in an organized day trip to Tara River Canyon from Kotor. I requested a booking from Adventure Montenegro but it requires a minimum of 4 people for the tour to be conducted (currently, it’s just me and one friend that have requested our day so far).

Seeking: anyone else interested in requesting/booking their tour? Trying to find two more people to reach out to them so we don’t miss out!

Date: June 25, 2026

The tour: rafting Tara River

Their website: https://adventuresmontenegro.me/tour/rafting-tara-river

Or!

If you know of other alternatives that run on this date and will pick up from Kotor, I’m interested!