Mixed into walking and rock climbing, those routes offer a total full contact with vertical world but don’t need alpine skill. Security is the most important, but no risk doesn’t mean no sensation! Those sport adventures can be practiced by anyone in good health and a minimum athletic.

Via ferrata are climbing on crags thanks ladder rungs up, via cordata climbs on ropes. Aventure hiking and vertigo trails are freer, and just need ropes. We are always rope attached, and we don’t take risks.

I propose thematic days, like Sainte Victoire discovery, by initiatory route, witch present history of the mountain, with the visit of Saint Ser chapel, the discover of the beautiful mushroom cave, and then the ascent of the Sainte Victoire mountain, by a secrete route.

In Provence, lot of routes, more classics, can satisfy you:

Some exemples:

-Traversée de l’extrême bec (Sormiou)
-Traversée de la Figuière (Morgiou)
-Corniches Paretti avec ou sans variante (Devenson)
–Traversée des écureuils (falaise du Belvédère)
-Grande vire (Baou de Bartagne)
-Tracé noir (Croix de Provence)

More difficult :

–Traversée du vieux phoque (Devenson)
-Traversée du Baron (Devenson)

-Traversée du GEP (Eissadon)
–Baou de l’aigle (Sainte Victoire)

Lot of different possibilities can be etablished. Don’t hesitate to contact me!

Nicolas Gay, rock climbing guide, Marseille and Calanques, Verdon, Sainte Victoire and Aix en Provence.

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