Mathis Dumas’s life has become a video. The 31 -year -old Montañero Armor is now the most famous Internet mountain guide. And for a good reason, he accompanied the Stofxtag Youtuber in his Evrest Ascension in 2024, reported in the documentary Kaizenthat to date has more than 45 million visits.
An impressive challenge that Mathis Dumas wanted to tell in a book. Posted on Thursday, September 11 The ascentThus he returns to this adventure, but also the childhood of the mountaineer and his love for altitude, a way for Mathis Dumas to inspire his future readers to “leave” and “disconnect.”
“We had many testimonies of parents who connect with their teenagers, who wanted to go to make mountain wands, walks. It really was the goal, inspire people out, disconnect the networks and their phone,” he said in the BFMTV microphone.
A “Kaizen 2” already in preparation
In his book, Mathis Dumas details in particular how he was approached by Integag in 2023 when he was at that time in the high mountain photographer. A meeting that becomes friendship and leads to the success we know.
But Everest is not the only topic addressed in this work. The ascent He also returns to the youth of Mathis Dumas in Privas, his first time in the mountains, where he discovered his future passion: ice climb and mountaineering, or even when he almost died at age 17, in Chéré Chute, next to Chamonix.
He also says he had planned to pass High Mountain’s guide competition, before a new accident arrived to disturb his plans. In full ascent, one of his companions escapes for little death. An event that puts a brake on the ambitions of Mathis Dumas and opens the way to a new passion: photography.
With this work, the mountaineer wants to sensitize the young audience to the dangers of the mountain: “Every day, children between 12 and 16 want to contact me to make Everest, but do not realize the difficulty, the steps they must validate before considering this. That is why at the end of the book I give advice,” he told the newspaper Le Parisien.
In spite of everything, Mathis Dumas reveals that a new project with Inoxtag is underway. “We want to improve the points that had been criticized: adopt a more alpine style, that is, without fixed sherpas or ropes, or oxygen, having fewer polluting movements, including more women,” he told The Parisian. “We should turn it in 2027 by 2028”.
Source: BFM TV
