Photo Gallery: Winter in Quebec
To celebrate Quebec’s vibrant outdoor spaces and joie de vivre, we’ve collected these gallery photos from the recent winter issues of Vie en montagne.
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Chasser le vent
Le vent fouette votre visage. Il vous propulse à toute allure sur vos skis ou votre planche à neige. Vous glissez sur une gigantesque surface plane enneigée alors que vous vous dirigez à l’aide d’un énorme cerf-volant faisant entre 6 et 18 mètres. Bienvenue dans le monde des chasseurs de vent !
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Ralentir
Ralentir. Ralentir pour mieux regarder, pour mieux sentir, pour mieux vivre. Si l’action est une puissante génératrice d’adrénaline et de dopamine (l’hormone du plaisir), le fait de lever le pied est source de nombreux bienfaits encore plus profonds, dont celui de se reconnecter à soi-même ainsi qu’à la nature qui nous entoure.
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Bora Boréal: Frozen in Time and Ice
Time has stopped. Nothing moves except the treetops when the wind starts to blow. You can hear only crackling logs in the woodstove. Or is that the ice? You have no neighbours—the lake is private, and only the two Bora Boréal cottages' occupants have access to it—and there is no traffic noise.
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Marie-Pier Desharnais: A Woman’s Experience on K2
A thousand and one things could have gone wrong, but she made it to the top: Marie-Pier Desharnais is the first Quebecois woman to climb K2.
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Vie en montagne Winter-Spring ’22-’23 Out Now
The winter-spring 2022-23 issue of Vie en montagne is out now.
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Artist Profile: Alexis Bernier, Surfboard Creator
As the St. Lawrence roars and churns along, more and more surfers are riding its waves. Beside Habitat 67 is a good place to cross paths with Alexis Bernier.
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Gallery: Summer in Quebec
Check out our top photos of summer in Quebec, picked from the latest issue of Vie en montagne.
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Flying to the Rescue: When Drone Technology Saves Lives
The story behind drone-assisted search and rescue in Quebec and beyond.
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Vie en montagne Summer/Fall 2022 Issue Out Now
The latest issue of Vie en montagne is now available.
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The Run of His Life: Ray Zahab’s Life-Altering Journey
“I was sick of the same old thing,“ adventurer Ray Zahab says of his party-animal days. “I needed to find something I could be stoked about.”
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Roots and Skis on the Matawinie Trail
The adventure-fuelled photographer, director and producer Annie-Claude Roberge took advantage of the pandemic to go with the flow and stay where her passion for the outdoors was born: the woods of the Lanaudière region.
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Icy Acrobatics / Haute voltige de glace
Last March, Quebec high-diving athlete Lysanne Richard launched herself headfirst from a 22-metre platform into a hole dug through the ice of a flooded quarry in Thetford Mines.
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Vie en montagne Winter/Spring ’22 Issue Out Now
In the winter/spring 2022 issue of Vie en montagne, there are plenty of opportunities to dive headfirst into the joys of ice and snow.
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Gear Shed: Fall Favourites from Vie en montagne
From Vie en montagne, summer/fall 2021. For French-language text, click here or scroll down. This jersey-and-bib-shorts set from Montreal-based Le Braquet is for the seasoned cyclist who values lightness and…
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#CoffeeRide: A Rite of Passage/Rituel de passage
words :: Maxime Bilodeau. Click here or scroll down for French-language text. Coffee is the heart and soul of any self-respecting bike ride. With steaming cups of hot coffee in…
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Quebec in Summer: Our Top 6 Photos
Life isn’t a long quiet river, and maybe it’s just as well! You have to battle the current to learn how to control your canoe. You need to go over…
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Au-delà de l’Everest / Beyond Everest
mots/words :: Peter Oliver // photos :: Bernard Franke Il ne peut y avoir qu’un seul plus haut sommet sur terre; le mont Everest. Une distinction qui est autant source…
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Throwback Quebec Style: Q&A with Paul Bride
We go behind the photo with Paul Bride. Words :: Sarah Bulford. Nous entendons souvent l’expression « une image vaut mille mots », mais elle ne rend pas toujours les émotions ou…
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