At 8,000 m above sea level, this is where he feels best. Despite the lack of oxygen, the violent effort and the descent which promises to be perilous, it is at the top of the most impassable mountains on the planet that Alasdair Mckenzie feels alive. After having climbed twelve of these peaks at 8,000 m in 2022 and 2023, the 19-year-old Frenchman is tackling the only two he is still missing: Shishapangma and Cho Oyu, in Tibet.
The young man is currently on the slopes of the second, the summit of which he will try to tame in the coming weeks from its Nepalese side, reputed to be almost impregnable. Then it will attempt to complete its loop at the top of Shishapangma when its roads are reopened next fall.
