The expedition
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L'expedition
The team
The team will be composed of three people from different generations.
Gérard Troadec
At the heart of it all, Gérard Troadec who has been a below-knee amputee for just over ten years. Born in 1947 in a Brittany family, this
locksmith today close to retirement is happily married and the proud father of three children. As he told us, without them, he would never have recovered as quickly as he did from his rock-climbing accident in
1996 which cost him his right foot. As an adventure addict since his most tender age, he has done both before and after his amputation several high-mountain treks including the climbing of the Mont-Blanc in 1996 and the cross from Chamonix to Zermatt (Switzerland) in 2006 in the Alps. With a history of two polar raids, Lapland on skis in 1995 and Spitzbergen in kayak in 2003, he will no doubt bring the team both his experience and his wisdom. Today, strengthened by his will to “do everything he did before”, he feels ready to take on this new challenge.
Alexandre Chabaud
Second member of the team and president of the association organising the expedition (see below), Alexandre Chabaud. Born in 1983 in the Lyon region, he very quickly developed a passion for mountaineering. Now in his final year of engineering studies, at his age, he can proudly pretend to have done several treks in totally autonomous conditions, both in summer and winter (Vercors, GR20 in Corsica, Vanoise). Furthermore, having gone up a few of the alpine peaks, today, he feels little apprehension before going into the Spitzbergen adventure.
Nicolas Moulis
Secretary of the association and youngest by one year, Nicolas Moulis will be the last member of the team. Born and bread in Toulouse, he made his first “mountain steps” in the Pyrenees. Former skier now snowboarder, he discovered himself a passion for high-mountain treks in the Alps in the company of his uncle in the Briançon valley. With only one experience in fully autonomous conditions in september 2007 in the Canigou massif (Pyrenees), this raid will be a relatively new experience for him, but one he cannot wait to embrace.
From a human point of view, this kind of raid cannot be improvised. Before we leave for Svalbard, we will therefore need to bond the team together. In difficult moments, we need to know we can count on each another and only training can provide us with such a certainty. This is why two months prior to the expedition, we will train together by going through the Alps in similar conditions.
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