My snowy walk with Sylvain Tesson: «Everything in Switzerland delights me».»

Hiking in the mountains means forgetting «your regrets, your plans, your ambitions». Sylvain Tesson crossed the Alps on skis, dedicating his latest book, Blanc. The story of a balancing act between physical effort and inner remission. Interview.

It seems as though the stars themselves have aligned to welcome him with great fanfare. As he set foot in the resort of Arolla (VS) on the afternoon of Saturday, December 10, to present *Blanc*, the mountain and the valley were draped in a pristine blanket of snow. Sylvain Tesson: writer, wanderer, mountaineer, essayist… and magician? The latest work by this giant of travel literature recounts his ski crossing of the Alps and his headlong plunge into the high mountains, which he calls the «realm of white.».

Two days earlier, however, the ground had been covered only by a crystalline veil at the bottom of this