Status Report - Week 30 2025

Real life

We continue our great vacation, and eventually leave Chamonix to go closer to Matterhorn, my favourite mountain. Since we were in Zermatt a few years back, I decided to get to it from the Italian side and ... did not go the right valley :-)

We still did super nice hikes, including our biggest ever in terms of elevation: 1000m+!

Here are a few pictures:

I read 2 of the 4 books I bought in Chamonix:

• SOS Himalaya, that I really liked. I like how it illustrates the tension between individualism ("I want to get up there") and support ("If we don't do anything, they will die") among alpinists.

• Le crépuscule des jeux, a very interesting "study" about the upcoming 2030 Winter Olympics in France. Long story short: nobody but a few politicians and the olympic committee want it, and it will be a disaster for the environment and France's (already tight budget).

25.55km of hiking (1851m of elevation).

Open source

No work at all; after all, it's vacation time :-)