Aiguille du Midi Operation Electric Avenue

Right next to the Aiguille du Midi peak, situated in a sea of mountains at an altitude of 3842m, stands proudly the legendary 50m high granite monolith Gendarme des Cosmiques. For the past 30 years it hosted only 2 climbing routes, Digital Crack (8a) and Arête des Cosmiques (8a), but recently a third route was made by the Bulgarian climbers Emiliyan Kolevski and Victor Varoshkin!
Sponsored by:
Walltopia
Stenata
VW Лекотоварни
Porsche Sofia Jug
Trangoworld
SIGMA
Compagnie du Mont Blanc
Produced by Never Know Productions
Climbers - Emiliyan Kolevski, Victor Varoshkin, Thierry Renault
Narrator - Nathan Cooper
Director - Georgi Kerezov & Stoil Dimitrov
Script - Alexander Vladimirov, Georgi Kerezov, Hristo Hristov, Stoil Dimitrov
Cinematography - Hristo Hristov, Stoil Dimitrov, Georgy Kerezov
Editing - Stoil Dimitrov & Georgi Kerezov
Colorist - Boris Tivchev
Sound design - Kamen Atanasov
VFX - Kristina Dasheva
Visual graphics - Hristo Petrov
Aerial cinematography - Hristo Hristov
Photographer - Ivaylo Donchev
Additional footage - Nick Lozica, Denis Ducroz

[@Jason-sp5yc]

I really appreciated the acknowledgement of climate change and how it's rapidly changing these playgrounds we hold dear.

[@yavorpanov8566]

It's privilege to watch natural athletes, climbing! 🔥🔥🔥

[@emiliyankolevski714]

Мерси Явка!

[@KhurshidsChannel]

Wow!! Fantastic video. Thanks for sharing. subd & 👍379

[@tonipashova8418]

Impressive production and (needless to say) amazing achievement by Viktor and Emil. Keep going!

[@user-nm8st5eo4o]

It is a very nice video, thank you

[@martinvandov335]

Well done Emo, Viktor and the filming crew!!

[@muttiplay]

Amazing video!

[@arnonimous7588]

On one side there's an emphasis on the permafrost's melting, the glacier that's now looks like a bouldering field and so on. But don't you ask why is this happening ? Cuz then you're showing us a dude who drives straight from Bulgaria to France for a sport climb...

[@honda_civic_sport_fk7_2017]

🦎 стана ли сте мувистар и двамата!

[@honda_civic_sport_fk7_2017]

шъ додем да ви изкатерим 8 ците догодина и ще станем първия дъртак, 50 + на 4000 м нв.

[@andrea67443]

😊

[@vanfja]

Looks like Cosmic ridge is attached to base rock and in situe. Has nothing to do with permafrost. Please stop trying to comment on geomechanics with absolutely no evidence or expertise.

[@aligator5255]

So based on this video your able to affirm that loss of permafrost won't affect this cliff ? Or have you been on site ? Cause it looks like you're "trying to comment on geomechanics with absolutely no evidence or expertise" as well. But I get your point

[@vanfja]

@@aligator5255 I am using my expertise in geology and geomech with permafrost and permafrost loss in alpine loose surface block cave material vs in situ rock. That pinnacle is in situe, not even a question about that. Look as the rock below it to the side, this is not loose float boulders but part of the ridge arete, all mostly solid rock with a little snow and ice sitting on top. Boulder fields below a a natural arete like this are shallow and sitting on the bedrock. Some of the permafrost that sits within a few joints in the rock is not going to effect it on that large of a scale that this climber is saying. I would only agree with the old climber in this specific situation if this was in a block cave mining area like some of the ones I work in. I would like to hear your counter argument.

[@kurtz1209ghdkfk]

It is going to be amazing when all the permafrost got melted and, therefore, all of that sh*t built up in the mountain comes down, leaving it clean and pure as a mountain shoul be.

[@vanfja]

This monolith looks like it’s still attached to the mountain rock. Permafrost melting isn’t going to effect it