JEFF MERCIER

HDry athlete Jeff Mercier

I was born at the foot of Mont Blanc in 1970, and I have always practiced mountain sports, alpine skiing, and hiking when I was a child.
I started mountain sports at the age of 13 with rock climbing and quickly moved on to mountaineering and then ice climbing.
I was part of the French national mountaineering teams and climbed and opened numerous routes on the great north faces of the French Alps.

I have also done a lot of dry-tooling, opening numerous crags in France and repeating routes worldwide up to the D15 level.

I am a High Mountain Guide, but my main job is mountain rescue. I work for the PGHM and spent 15 years working in Chamonix. Now, I am based in Annecy.

HDry athlete Jeff Mercier in Iceland
Jeff Mercier ice climbing in Iceland
Jeff Mercier ice climbing
Jeff Mercier ice climbing in Iceland
Jeff Mercier in Iceland

My passion for over 25 years has been ice climbing: from Turkey to the icebergs of Greenland, passing through Norway and Canada, I have climbed kilometers of vertical ice.

This unquenchable passion continues to drive me, and I am always looking for new projects. In recent years, I have focused on climbing in glaciers, halfway between dry-tooling and ice climbing.

This new field truly excites me for the future.