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April 14, 1951 August 7, 2021

2,000 meters of fall – Thalassa!

Alps Notebook 12 Midday
A better corner than not bad

Barcelonnette – Croix Valmer | 30 March – 14 April 1951 I lighten myself of a considerable package that I send back to Paris and which, by its contents, symbolizes my renunciations...

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Posted in Notebook 12 , Alps , Midday
Bernard Van Leckwyck
… and I put on my snowshoes

2,000 metres of fall – Presumption

Posted in Notebook 12 , Alps , Midday
Bernard Van Leckwyck

Barcelonnette – Croix Valmer | March 30 – April 14, 1951 The night fades and this encouragement makes me stick my face to the window of the corridor while the...

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The play of the sun's rays

Morvan under the snow

Posted in Notebook 11 , Franche Comté
Bernard Van Leckwyck

22 to 25 December 1950 – Settons dam and return A black 4CV drives in the cold December night... Doesn't it look like the beginning of a novel...

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Return to camp

Adventure in the Tarentaise

Posted in Notebook 11 , Alps
Bernard Van Leckwyck

28 July to 5 August 1950 – Nancroix-Les Lanches There are four of them. No, five... and even five and a half! Let's do the math. First of all, the trio who have already experienced so much...

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Jean, était resté

Everest, scale 1:100

Posted in Notebook 10 , Normandy
Bernard Van Leckwyck

13 to 16 July 1950 – Pont d'Ouilly – Le Bô We are driving towards the Suisse Normande. It is the traditional name for this part of the Orne valley and...

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End of the cruise

We find the Wagtail

Posted in Notebook 10 , Ile de France
Bernard Van Leckwyck

23 to 25 June 1950 – Courteron to Germany (Haute Seine) It had been a long time since we had done a canoe cruise, Jean and I, and the Haute Seine...

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Cliffs

Posted in Notebook 10 , Normandy
Bernard Van Leckwyck

29 April to 1 May 1950 – Yport and return During the Paris-Fécamp trip, the 4CV carrying the Patagonians suffered only one shower. It's fair to say...

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on the road to Vence

In the Land of the Sun

Posted in Notebook 9 , Alps , Midday
Bernard Van Leckwyck

April 1950 I woke up several times during the night and often heard the little monotonous noise forgotten there in the North. Top top top...

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Bowling

By Monts and by Vaux

Posted in Alps , Notebook 9
Bernard Van Leckwyck

April 1950 After a short drive, a shortcut is offered to the Bourguet and I descend into a charming setting of boxwood and rockeries where lizards run everywhere....

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above 2,000!

Provençal hiking – Long live skiing!

Posted in Notebook 9 , Alps
Bernard Van Leckwyck

April 3, 1950 The bus reeking of diesel rolls and pitches in the streets of Nice, soon, it sets off along the Var on the highway that leads to the highway that leads...

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