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Ronald Turnbull is carried to an idealised alpine age by the mountain drawings of French cartoonist Samivel, in his book Sous L'Oeil des Choucas, ou Les plaisirs de l'alpinisme (under the eye of the chough, or the pleasures of alpinism).

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Good to see Samivel in a non-French 'publication', in many ways ahead of his time on issues such as conservation, I find his cartoons & posters timeless. Have any of his books been translated into English ?

Have always loved his work. Thank you!

Mick 

Astounding article! I'll be researching Samivel, this is the first I've heard of him and it looks iconic stuff!

Indeed Doug. So ahead of his time. When the hordes descended (ascended?) on the mountains of North Wales after the lockdown, the Samivel cartoons immediately sprang to mind .

I didn't find any English version. But the captions are short, and all the words are ones you'll find useful in the hut. The one show in the article, sorry the caption got lost, it's "How they did it... and how they talked about it afterwards".

He also published some books of which I suspect the best known (at least in France) is L’Amateur d'abîmes & at least one novel -Le Fou d'Edenberg - which I've not read but apparently is good.

More info for anyone interested at http://www.samivel.fr/fr/