All à Bloc
Every summer, L’Argentière-La Bessée goes vertical. For almost a week, the small town in the Écrins becomes the rallying point for climbers from all over the world.
International competitions, top-level contests, introductory courses and lively evening events: the Tout à Bloc combines everything that makes the Hautes-Alpes so special, where amateurs and champions share the same holds.
All on the same line
At the foot of the Écrins peaks, the Tout à Bloc has long since moved beyond the realm of competition to become a true meeting place for climbing culture. Every summer, the festival brings together the best that climbing has to offer: passionate climbers, boulders that heat up under crash pads, electric finals and a unique atmosphere where champions meet weekend climbers over a beer and a crumpled topo.
A varied program
For several days, the village lives to the rhythm of the contests, from qualifications open to all, right up to the international finals where the best boulderers come to put on a show. But the TAB also includes climbing initiation courses, workshops, children’s activities, screenings and the kind of festive evenings the Hautes-Alpes is famous for. A festival where people come as much to climb as to rediscover the spirit of the vertical community.
Back to the rock
And then there’s the rock. It’s impossible to talk about Tout à Bloc without mentioning theAilefroide cliffs surrounding L’Argentière-La Bessée. High-altitude routes, ruts carved out of the limestone, bouldering sectors lost in the larches: climbing leaves the structures to rediscover the mineral and its natural lines. An immersion in the discipline’s original environment, where the relationship between gesture and place takes on a whole new dimension.
See also
Destinations
Pays des Écrins
