During this time, my passion for mountains grew up and it is now more than 14 years that I am exercising alpinism, cross-country skiing, rock and ice climbing. The picture on the right was taken in 1994 in Chamonix during a training session organised by the FFME (French Federation for Mountaineering and Climbing) to qualify as an "Initiateur Alpinisme". This very interesting session allowed me to practice useful things like diving into a 20 metres deep crevasse and wait for people to get you out of it.

Unfortunately, I went almost nowhere but in the French Alps. I only started to travel abroad in 1999. Since then, I had the wonderful opportunity to climb one of the most beautiful mountains, the Ama Dablam located just in front of Mount Everest. Hopefully, the next years will give me a chance to visit places like Patagonia, Peru and Pakistan.

After a long stay in Lyon were I've been a Software Development Team Leader with Esker, I am now living in a lovely village near Grenoble called Saint-Nizier du Moucherotte. The picture on the left shows the village with the "Massif des Ecrins" in the background. In Grenoble, I have been working for a few years as a Software Architect with Anova, and I recently appointed as a Software Engineer with the Instrumentation Group of the European Molecular Biology Lab.

Something that is closely related to my passion for mountains is my passion for flying : The wonderful feeling of scrutining our lovely earth from the heights... I was lucky enough to learn to pilot gliders during my duties in the air force. But since then, I lacked the time and money to continue. The day I get back to gliding I hope my regular training using Flight Simulator will help.