Management and staff at Arc'teryx Equipment Inc. are deeply saddened by the death of Guy Lacelle at the Bozeman Ice Festival yesterday. Sources say Lacelle was swept off a climb by an avalanche that occurred around 9:30 a.m. He leaves behind his beloved wife Marge and his constant companion, his dog Jade.

A two-time winner of the Ouray Ice Festival climbing competition, Lacelle's accomplishments earned him the Banff Centre for Mountain Culture's prestigious Summit of Excellence Award.

John Irvine, newly-named Director of International Sales, says, "Guy was a great, great person. He epitomized dignity and integrity. His Zen climbing style was peaceful, relaxed, and smooth; and he was always happy and positive. His passion for adventure and drive to see and explore new places and cultures made Guy a real pioneer, and his charming personality made him a pleasure to work with. Guy's real magic was his passion for sharing the sport. He was a regular at the festivals; teaching clinics and passing on his wisdom."

Irvine said, "I am deeply saddened by this loss, yet I will take comfort that I had his friendship, we at Arc'teryx had the opportunity to work with such a rare and wonderful person."

My passion for climbing started as soon as I stepped into my first real climbing shoes, I knew that this is my sport.

I grew up in the middle of the Swiss mountains in a valley called Prattigau. After finishing high school, finding no solid direction in normal life I decided to leave the "routine" and chose to continue my life as a climber. My desire to practice this sport with all his facets was so strong, that I was able to overcome all the obstacles that I came across to peruse my lifestyle.

Besides rockclimbing and mountaineering I also spent time competing. During this time, I learned a lot how I have to train and what I have to do, to become a stronger climber. This made me become an even stronger rock-climber, quickly making it possible for me to red-point my first 8b route.

After a while, I lost the motivation for competitions and I started to concentrate more and more on what was for me pure rockclimbing. I travelled all around the world and climbed on all kinds of rocks. From big wall climbing in Patagonia and Kirgistan to boulder trips in Argentina, from deep water soloing in Thailand to sport climbing all around Europe and America. All these experiences and all these different styles of rock climbing gave so much practice, that it made me the well rounded climber I am now.

Through all these experiences as a rock climber, I found my big challenge: I want to climb the hardest multi pitch routes in the world. To be able to climb a hard multi pitch route in one day, that is my goal and what I am searching for.

Routes like 'Ultime démence', 5 pitches 8a+ or 'la Ramirole', 5 pitches 8b, are the most beautiful sucesses in my climbing life.

I love my 'non-system' life. To be able to decide myself how I will earn my money, where I will live, when I will get up in the morning. To do what I need to do to survive. And most importantly: to enjoy every single day, with the least amount of seriousness as possible and to climb to my very best!

I was born in North Vancouver, BC - I lucked out - a place where one could go mountain biking, ski powder snow, and shop for raw denim along the cobbled streets of gastown all in the same day. Not exactly a hotbed for alpinism, however, but luck again would point me in the direction I currently find myself.

I was 9 years old and my parents dropped me one summer at the local climbing gym, the climbing was okay - but what really drew me was the rack of climbing magazines beside the front counter. Inside I found photos of big mountains, desert towers, and perfect egg-shaped granite boulders. I was hooked, I knew one day I was going to climb all those things. I was 9 years old though, so for now I was trapped in that gym working on the yellow-taped route.

My life changed the summer I graduated, moved permanently up the highway to Squamish, and climbed endless granite everyday. I scraped just enough money together every month to cover my share of the rent and ate a lot of cabbage and potatoes.

I'm 22 now and have come a long way since; the mountains have taught me a lot. Some of my most special experiences include long and difficult ascents in Argentine Patagonia, first free ascents in the Bugaboos, bigwall freeclimbing in Yosemite, the FA of a 5000' mixed face in the Waddington Range, climbing all 14 pitches of my favourite route the Grand Wall in 1:13:33, and winter ice and mixed ascents in the Canadian Rockies... I also sent that yellow-taped route.

As an all around climber, I've never been particularly talented at any one discipline. My biggest strength - probably belief in the existence of luck. I seem to do my best when the chips are down and we just need to try really hard to succeed. I live to crank the amplitude to high.

I am an ACMG assistant alpine guide, working towards full IFMGA certification. In addition to rock and alpine guiding, I am a rigger for the arts and entertainment industry in Vancouver. As a lifelong skier, powder snow, steep ski descents, and endurance traverses do constant battle with climbing over my psyche.

See what I have been up to recently: jasonkruk.net/blog

By: Jon Walsh

Chris Brazeau and I spent four weeks this summer in Auyittuq National Park, Baffin Island, climbing the granite walls and ridges of the Weasel Valley. We left home with some inspiring photos, vague beta, and a lot of excitement. In the small fishing village of Pangnirtung, we met our our Belgian friends Nicolas Favresse, Sean Villeneauva, Olivier Favresse, and Steffan Husson, as well as Silvia Vidal of Catalonia, and together, we hired a boat to take us to the trail head at the end of the Fiord. The main goal of our trip was to climb Mt. Asgard , Baffins most famous and arguably most beautiful peak, which requires a 42 kilometer approach up the Valley on descent but rugged trails for the first 32 km, and moraines and glaciers for the final 10. This would involve ferrying many loads of gear and food, as well as climbing whatever other peaks inspired us along the way. As the Weasel Valley is stacked with amazing mountains, the objectives were plentiful and the views always mind blowing.

To sum up our 28 days in the park, 7 were spent climbing, 11 schlepping loads, and 10 were spent resting. We did all our routes in light and clean style, always trying to find challenging, aesthetic lines. Our two most significant climbing achievements were:

-Asgard's South Tower, south face, 5.12- 600m; We thought we were on an entirely new route until we found a bolt at the route's crux, on the second last pitch. It's hard to say for sure but we probably climbed 50% new terrain / 50% the "Italian Route" on the South face. The route went in 9 amazing 60 meter pitches of mainly 5.10, with save the second last pitch, which was 5.12-. It was probably the first free ascent of the South Tower and took about 16 hours round trip from a camp on the side of the Cariboo Glacier.

-Asgard's North Tower, east face, 5.11+ C1,800m; Hard to say whether the first half had been climbed or not, but we climbed about ten nice pitches up to 5.11- to the headwall. We then followed an obvious crack system to the right of Line of Credit that provided the highlight of the trip. Eight 60-meter pitches, six of which were 5.11 and often involved run out, delicate face climbing that linked the cracks, on some of the best quality stone we've ever touched! Some wet rock forced us right near the top, and only one body length didn't go free due to some wetness. Probably 5.12- free. Wet 5.11 moves constantly made us did deep but we on-sighted the rest of the headwall. The Favresse brothers repeated the first two thirds of our headwall route, but drier conditions permitted a more direct finish. Our camp to camp time was 22.5 hours, with the approach being at least two hours.

Other climbs we did included:

-"The Scott Route" 5.11-, on Asgard's North Tower. Very classic! Great positions on the SW buttress. Asgard is one of those peaks you can just keep climbing on!

-"Stories in Stone" 5.12 - A0, 600 meters, Mount Walle. This sustained 16 pitch route with bolted belays is up there as one of the best routes either of us has ever climbed. Unfortunately, we couldn't remove the A0 part of the grade but the hardest climbing is 5.12-. A physical route with some chimney and offwidth climbing up an amazing red pillar. This one required the most effort and was our longest camp to camp time at 25 hours.

-Mt. Thor, South Ridge 5.8.; A true classic to a wild summit.

-Mt Menhir, South Ridge. 5.10, 600m; We did a few pitches of 5.10 variation to Salvaterra's route, before some weather forced us back to the line of least resistance. If it weren't for the three hour slog up a couloir to the base, this route would be popular. The rock is perfect, and the route similar in character to the NE ridge of Bugaboo Spire.

-Mt. Tirokwa West face; This was actually just an attempt on a new route. We climbed about 400 meters out of 700 to the left of Chocolate Boomerang, before run-out face climbing shut us down. This could be a great route but a couple of bolts seemed necessary to pass an obvious white rock scar. The holds and climbing seemed to be all there, but natural protection looked impossible for about 40 meters of 5.11 climbing. With under a day to get down, pack camp and hike out 15 km to catch our ferry to back Pangnirtung, we rappelled and called it a trip.

All said and done, we had a great time, great weather, and the entire expedition unfolded smoothly. We climbed more than we anticipated we would, and the adventure was everything and more, than we could have hoped it would be.

A huge thank you to our Arcteryx, Moutain Equipment Coop, Scarpa, and Sequel Naturels for the support.

My passion for climbing first started with Mountaineering. At the age of 18 years old I went to south America. Lots of courage and inexperienced luck brought us to the summit of Aconcagua 6959m.since then, climbing is a passion.

I enjoy all form of free climbing . What I like the most about climbing is the beauty and the diversity of the environnement, the different climbing formation either ice or rock and the people with whom I share these experiences. The last few years I had the chance to climb all year round with my life partner Audrey Gariepy. Sharing the rope with her is probably the best thing that could have happened to me. Doing trips or expeditions with a good partner gives me wings and energy to be as polyvalent as possible...

Favourites Routes:
Stairway to heaven WI5, M8, 100M
The Replicant WI6
Suffer machine WI6
La pomme d Or WI6
Petit victor M10 (Quebec)
Goldline M10 (Ouray Colorado)

First Ascents:
Paradis perdu WI 5, 170m Canadian Rockies .Guy Lacelle, Audrey Gariepy, Mathieu Audibert
The doors of perceptions, 600m M7, Canadian Rockies Patrick Delaney, Mathieu Audibert
La Mante et l Ours, WI5+350M Norway, Audrey Gariepy, Mathieu Audibert
Thermalphobia, WI5+ 280M. Norway, Audrey Gariepy, Mathieu Audibert, Guy Lacelle

I've been full time climber for 8 years. I work as a foremen for Celtic Reforestation in British-Colombia. This seasonal job gives me the opportunity to climb eight months per year. I spend most of my time between the Canadian Rockies, Quebec, US and Europe.

By: Joëlle Brupbacher
In Memory of Gerd McDonald

One more time, I took the way to Pakistan with my friends Jorge and Martin. After some trekking days over the Baltoro glacier we arrived in K2 basecamp. The weather was not so hot like other years and there were only a few expeditions at the mountain; so it was great. I’m here again trying to climb this incredible and huge mountain, for sure so special, such a contrast in the mountain world. When I’m looking at K2, I see a mountain so high, so wild but at the same time so simple, so perfect like it’s surreal. I know to climb a mountain like this will be hard, difficult and I’ll have to suffer a lot. But knowing all this, I feel in calm beeing here and in this time, I don’t want to stay in another place. After the big tragedy last year, it was even more a special feeling to be here again. I need to say good-bye to close friends who died here one year ago.

For the first acclimatisation we chose the Spanish-Cesen route. We slept one night on an incredible small balcony, between camp I and camp II. The night was bad, very windy and cold. In the morning, we decided to go down in the middle of a strong storm. After this conditons on the mountain, the basecamp is looking like a five star hotel. The sleeping tent is so big, you have place to turn around in the night, the best cook is preparing the best food for you and going to the toilet is so easy without the necessity of keeeping the rope...

After some discussions about the small tent places in the Spanish-Cesen route, we decided to change to the Abruzzi way. Because there were not a lot of other teams (or because they didn’t want to work) we prepared all the way at the mountain. Jorge, Martin and me fixed ropes from ABC to camp III in four hard days. There were a lot of snow, icy rocks and the weather was for this season very cold and windy. Mostly the nights in camp II were unconfortable; it was dangerous to go out of the tent, go to the toilet, to scoop snow away of the tent. I remember other years in this camp, when I could enjoy this place, sitting outside, cooking in open space. We spend one night in camp III and in this acclimatisation time, Jorge took his chance and went in a solo ascent to the summit. But for him the time at K2 was not finish yet, he came up again to help me and Martin.

Back in hotel basecamp we could rest and took power for the next ascent. After some days the weahter window appeard and we could climb up again. In two long days we reached camp III once more. The weather reports announced a short, less wind window; we were ready.

But the good-weather window didn’t arrive and I must wait three nights in camp II. One day later, I met Jorge, Martin and some other climbers in camp III. At the 25. of July at one in the night we started for the summit. As we expected, there were a lot of snow, we fought all the dark night. Also a group of eight strong climbers was not enough power against the power of the mountain. Around 7900m we decided to turn back. The snow was to deep, the conditions to dangerous. After the first disappointment, we were happy and contented that nothing happened and everybody was safe back in basecamp. I didn’t want to make a second attempt, the conditions in the beginning of august becomes always very bad and the mountain so dangerous with a lot of rockfalls. The work at home was waiting for us and we would spend some days in different mountain villages to give medical help to the people there. Like the years before, it’s always a great work with a lot of gratitude and satisfaction.

I’m dreaming of a home like a place where I feel calm and enjoy my life. In K2 I find both... For sure it was not my last time on K2. But just now, it was definetly my best time at this incredible mountain.

ARC'TERYX Signs Big Mountain Freeskier Eric Hjorleifson
"Bow Valley Crew" Member and MSP Film Stalwart Joins Sayers,Hill and others on Arc'teryx Team
For Immediate Release - January 27, 2010

ARC'TERYX EQUIPMENT INC. is proud to announce that Eric Hjorleifson has been signed to its snowsport athletes roster.

Born and bred in Canmore, AB, Hjorleifson (pronounced Hyor-leaf-son), 27, is a member of the infamous "Bow Valley Crew" of freeskiers who cut their teeth ripping big Rocky Mountain lines in and around Lake Louise. His specialty is skiing steep, challenging, rock-studded faces and couloirs in a high-speed, racer-derived style with the odd air thrown in for good measure.

Tom Duguid, ARC'TERYX Director of Brand Management, welcomed Eric to its athlete team. "Eric is one of the most dynamic and visually exciting big mountain skiers out there right now. His understanding of how technically-designed equipment and clothing can increase performance in the big mountain arena is aligned with our mission to build the best gear possible."

Eric's first assignment "field testing" ARC'TERYX gear just wound up at Golden Alpine Holidays, where the film crew from Matchstick Productions (MSP) documented Hjorleifson and fellow pro Mark Abma dropping powdery pillow lines near GAH's newly-refurbished Vista Lodge. Hjorleifson has appeared in MSP's Push, Claim, The Hit List and Seven Sunny Days.

"Hoji"'s Alberta roots can be seen in his 4FRNT signature ski that features a top sheet inspired by Lethbridge Pil, the legendary low-cost brew favoured by ski bums throughout the West.

A story by Rob Pizem

Most of the time when you are preparing for a climbing trip, you are pouring over guide books, looking at photos and talking to everyone that you know about what climbs you should try when you get there. The green river trip that I just returned from was just the opposite. There were no recorded ascents (just rumors), there were no developed areas (just miles of cliff line), and you needed a boat or 4x4 to access everything.

I was on the road during my fall break from teaching with a couple friends to begin a real adventure, which (as usual) Andrew Burr concocted a while back. We were going to canoe down the green river just north of Canyonlands National Park to try to climb the Green River Towers and anything else that looked good.

The first three days were hot and we used the canoes to access a cliff line over the river called the Willow quadrangle. We found two old uranium adits, a bunch of old relic mining equipment, some petrified wood, ripple marks and of course a few gem crack climbs. Andy took photos while we had the pleasure of climbing, cleaning and bolting these new lines. It was great fun using the spotting scope to identify a possible crack climb and then to paddle over, scramble up the talus over the green river to check it out and hopefully get lucky.

Closer to camp, also during those first three days, we headed up to a buttress of stone past yet another old uranium mine that we called the Riverbend Buttress. It yielded four new crack climbs each of which were first climbed by all four of us. The Riverbend Buttress requires plenty of big cams; like 2 number sixes up to 4 number fives and 4 number four cams along with all the smaller cam sizes. I will have to say that my Arcteryx clothing and harness really held up well while I was grinding it out on desert offwidth crack climbing.

After we took care of the plumb lines at Riverbend we decided it was time to load up the canoes and head on down stream to the green river towers. We each knew that we could have stayed and developed new cracks for the rest of the trip but the towers were the real objective. None of us were very skilled at canoeing but after a few minutes of going the wrong direction on the river, we managed to keep the boats pointed downstream and quickly had the towers within view.

They rose from the opposite side of the river into 6 unique and different summits. We had hoped to climb each of them and dreamed of perfect splitters heading to each oddly shaped peak. Once we paddled closer, we found a sand bar to set up camp on and gaze at the new terrain. All that was left was to paddle across the 200 feet of water and hike up the hillside and talus. Since we arrived in the evening, we were able to watch the sunset on the towers and to our surprise we saw a set of anchors and even a bolt glistening in the waning daylight. Someone else had climbed these beautiful towers. That was fine with us; we could leave the drill at camp!

That next morning we filled our packs with all the gear we could and headed up to the towers. Only after chopping a trail through the bushes and trees for a half hour did we get to begin our approach. As we neared the towers, we easily saw that the cracks that looked small and thin from camp turn into offwidth test pieces. We were in for some work up the wide stuff. Nearly every summit was to be obtained only after muscling our way up wide cracks. The end of the trip certainly proved that as my elbow and knees were scabbed and bloody from the past two days on the towers.

Each of the 4 summits that we ascended was hard fought and rewarding. The first tower was a long 200 foot pitch that required a couple of 4, 5, and 6 inch pieces. The next required some hard wear and nailing to get through an aid section on pitch two. After getting some proper protection in the crack, (a few pins) we freed the pitch and climbed crumbly last pitch to the summit high over the river. We could watch the other river users paddle and motor down stream in the early fall heat of the desert.

The last two towers were freed with a lot more offwidth techniques and a never give up attitude. All the while a wind storm came through the valley and destroyed Andy’s tent poles and sent out tent blowing to the rivers edge. That nights wind provided us with a lot of sand on the menu. The final tower had a rack of 2 six inch cams, 4 five inch cams, 4 four inch cams and 2 three inch cams and 2 one inch cams. A monster pitch took us to the saddle of the tower, which was then followed by a second pitch crescent moon shaped chimney with an arête exit to the summit on hollow face holds. As the wind blew and the ground dropped out below us and the sun set, the satisfaction of good friends, good climbing and adventure set in before we had to paddle downstream to the take out. Thanks to my sponsors for making this trip happen: Arcteryx, Scarpa, Camp-USA and Sterling Ropes.

Born: Aix-en-Provence, France
Nationality: FRENCH
Current Residence: Verbier, Switzerland

Personal accomplishments:

Telemark results:
• 1st place, Derby de la Meije in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2nd in 2007, 2008, 2010
• 1st place, Derby du Monterosa in 2004, 2005
• 1st place, Derby de Verbier in 2006

Alpine results:
• 1st place, 24h Freeride de Gstaad in 2009
• 1st place, Derby de Verbier in 2007,2009 and 2010
• 1st place, Derby de Chavanette in 2010

Athlete Bio:

I was born in Aix-en-Provence in 1977, started skiing at the age of 2. I started ski racing when I was pretty young and was on the FIS circuit for few years.
I live in Pelvoux, a small ski resort located in a national park near La Grave, France. It’s a beautiful spot for freeride skiing and ski mountaineering; actually, it’s a great place to be at any time of the year.
Today I work as a self-employed ski, snowboard and telemark instructor in Verbier, Switzerland.
I have participated in some great competitions like the Derby de la Meije, a long-distance downhill ski race. I have won the telemark division four times.
During the summer, I split my time between teaching sailing and traveling around the world. I have done a lot of trekking in the mountains of south and Central America, and obviously in our beautiful Alps.
My favorite riding and ski touring spots in the Alps are: La Grave, Verbier, Chamonix, and Monterosa.
Sponsors: Arc'teryx, Rabbit on the Roof (hand made skis), Crispi (boots), Giro (helmets), Mundaka (optics), Magic Potion

A story by Silvia Vidal
Photos by Olivier Favresse, Nicolas Favresse, Sean Villanueva and Stephane Hanssens.

Usually I write about a climbing. This time I'm writing about the reasons that brought me to climb a not planned route and with some other climbing partners as first expected, on Mount Asgard (Baffin Island, Canada).

I was planning a summer expedition to Baffin Island with a friend of mine (Luis Gomez, Madrid-Spain). We started to prepare things early in the season trying to have things under control. But it didn't happen like that and the previous part of the trip was an epic and a nightmare.

The original plan was to try to put up a new route on the main face from the South Tower of Mount Asgard. But our expedition was totally frustrated before leaving our country and at the end Luis decided to cancel his flights and not go to Baffin. The reason was that we had no option to climb something that motivated us.

Instead of this, finally I climbed the "Belgarian" route, a free climbing variation from the "Bavarian" route on Asgard South Tower, being a five member team. Because when things turned down something else appeared.

What happened to us was that we needed to send in advance a cargo with all the climbing equipment and the food we would need to spend a couple of months in the island. We wanted to use the outfitters services (they use snow mobiles) to bring the things just before the glacier from Asgard. But for that we needed to send it in spring before the ice melts, because they drive above the iced rivers. Mount Asgard is really far from the main village, about 50 Km. plus hiking up the glacier to the base of the wall. That means a lot of carryings if we need to do them by ourselves.

Finally, after being in contact with a Belgian climbing team (Sean Villanueva, Nicolas Favresse, Olivier Favresse and Stephane Hanssens) we decided to share the sending with them, because it seemed that things could be easier.

After some problems with the food, Canadian border has strong restrictions for the imported food; we were able to send the cargo. It was blocked there for a long time, more than a month and a half, and finally our cargo company (DHL) wasn't able to send it to Baffin. So, after many phone calls, mails and tension, the cargo came back to Belgium in June. We couldn't believe it!

During all this process, the National Park Director called at home to advise us that this year there was more polar bear activity in the area as usual, and for this reason they forbid us to leave any kind of food and fuel in the area, except if we were sending polar bear containers! There are no polar bear containers in Europe...

As Luis was working it was my turn to take the car and go to Brussels (2.700Km-1680 miles go and return) to take the cargo and bring it back to Spain.

Luis and I were desperately looking for a solution; it meant we were looking for a new goal. But there were not too many options and there were no closer walls that motivated us.

The day before our departure, Luis came to Barcelona and we spent some hours talking and finally he decided not go to Baffin. After months of preparations, phone calls, the food, the cargo, the National Park, the polar bears... the doubts... all our motivation was frustrated. We had no more energy to fight for... nothing. There was no climbing goal.

It was really sad to recognize it and we had no too much option because being just two people in the team was not enough to carry all the Km that are from the end of the fiord to the base of the wall. More than 50 Km. that we needed to do many times (going and returning, up and down). No option, for us, not enough holiday time.

Luis canceled his flight and I had a horrible night trying to decide what to do, if to cancel it as well or leave alone, anyway. I decided to go anyway, knowing that there were not too many options for me because I was going alone. And knowing that maybe I won't climb. I went anyway because to climb in remote areas that have something intense apart from the climbing; the landscape, the nature, the wilderness, the loneliness... But it was a hard decision, because climbing has been always the main goal, the reason. I left with all the gear, just in case...

I took the plane and I paid hundreds of euros for the extra weight. I decided to bring the whole gear in case I would like to solo something in a Big Wall style.

In Ottawa I met the Belgians and we shared the first part of our trip together. They were heading to Asgard but no concrete plans, and during the march they stopped in different areas to climb some nice walls in a day.

I was approaching Mount Tirokwa (its one day walking). At the second day of carryings I decided I wasn't motivated enough to climb it. The first time I saw the wall I didn't have de desire to climb it. And the first sight is always important for me. So, I knew I wouldn't climb it. And then I had no other options. That was hard as well, because one thing is to imagine a situation and another is to live it.

I rested for some days at Tirokwa's base camp, and during this time we (the Belgians and me) were sharing same camp, because they decided to climb there as well.

Then they proposed me to share a big wall ascent in Asgard with them. They were already 4 and for me their proposal was a surprise. I didn't expect it. We carried about 500 Km to get to Asgard and to come back. Being five people that was possible.

We were five in a wall and we slept in 2 double portaledges and a hammock. Every day we decided who was going to sleep there, that was an adventure. The night I slept there I twisted and I fell down, hanging on the jumars inside the sleeping bag. That was a new experience as well.

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Arc'teryx sponsored freeskier Mark Welgos has spent the winter filming and competing on the Subaru Freeskiing World Tour. Earlier this month, the Aspen, CO-based skier took third place at an FWT comp held in Kirkwood, CA. Aaron Schmidt, a new Arc'teryx team member out of Fernie, BC, placed second.

Welgos, Schmidt, and Crystal Wright, another Arc’teryx sponsored athlete, are in Snowbird, UT, competing at the Subaru Freeskiing World Championships this weekend.

Here is some helmet camera filmed footage Mark shot backcountry skiing near Kirkwood, and at the FWT competition.