In mid-February, Chamonix Mont-Blanc will host the best Extreme Sports athletes for a unique competition. There will be mountain sports of course, but above all, the Outdoors Games will be a festival of film and photography. The concept will bring together seven teams.
Climbers, skiers, snowboarders, paragliders and BASE-jumpers will join up with professional cameramen, photographers, editors, and producers.
They will all have 5 days to produce a short film of 5 minutes, and 20 still pictures !
The Aiguille d'Or, trophy will be awarded to the best production during the ceremony on Saturday night in the centre of Chamonix. The decision will be made by a jury made up of specialists in the areas of sport and audiovisuals. They will also hand out an award for the best photograph.

See all the infos and program on the Outdoorgames official website


Petzl will be part of the event : we will organize the Ice climbing initiation in Argentière. Free for the public : subscribe at the Petzl booth, in the Outdoorgames village, down town Chamonix.

There will be also professional demos of ice climbing and drytooling, during the evening.

For this event, MedeO (the production crew who made the corporate movie), will join Guillaume Broust and Bertrand Delapierre, as well as several athletes from Petzl team:

  • Tony Lamiche will be our special photographer ! The story will be around his passion of photography (you may have seen some og his shots on his blog.)
  • Liv Sansoz will be our climber, she will also post some news on her blog during the event.
  • Martial Dumas, from the team Planet BigWall will climb with her during the week.

Here under, the details of the team:

Director : Guillaume Broust

Director of Petzl movies :


Director of photography : Bertrand Delapierre

  • Photographer of Les Nuit de la glisse
  • Director of the movies : Marco, étoile filante, Ice UP, Les Amants des Drus, Sorcière Blanche, etc...


Editing crew : MédéO


Climber : Liv Sansoz

  • Two times World Champion in Sport Climbing
  • 2nd of the Ice World Cup - IWC 2001
  • Part of the Climbing National Team for 8 years

Martial Dumas (from the team Planet BigWall, the guys who did Azazel and Baffin Island) will also be part of the team. He will belay Liv during the week.

Still photographer : Tony Lamiche

Snowboarding : Vivien Dotty

  • Winner of Freeride des arcs 2002
  • Participation to Extrem de Verbier
  • Participation in the films :
  • « Nuit de la glisse : Perfect moment »
  • « Un Chalet dans les alpes »
  • « Barre Code »

Skiing : Matt Imbert

  • Pro-rider for ACG
  • Freestyle and Freeride skiing
  • Watch some of his videos !

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Speedriding : Antoine Boisselier

  • Hanggliding France Champion
  • Acro paragliding pilot
  • Ozone test pilot

Base Jumping : Matt Gerdes

  • Participation at the OutdoorGames 2007 (Interlaken)
  • Acro paragliding pilot
  • Ozone test pilot

Paragliding : Guillaume Chatain

  • 3rd at the France Championship 2005
  • 4th at the Acro Paragliding World Cup
  • World record of Tandem distance flight (170 km in round trip)

Stay tuned for the movie ! It will be available around the 17th of February, on www.petzlteam.com !

Copyright photos : Arnaud Childéric, David Ravanel, Outdoorgames, Pascal Tournaire, Liv Sansoz collection.