Maxime Turgeon

Age: 29, Years climbing: 9, Hometown: Chamonix Mont-Blanc, France, Favorite product: Katana

Do you clip bolts, plug cams, stack pads, or crush ice?

My favorite dicipline is Ice climbing but I love the change as well and do a bit of everything

How long have you been an athlete with La Sportiva?

It's my forth year with Sportiva and really hope to still be in nthat place in many years

What are some of your lifetime climbing goals?

Do a hard technical route on a vergin face on na 7000m peak in the Karakoram

Do you have a claim to fame?

I dont think so

Do you have any vices?

The cookies that my girlfreind bake

What makes you tick as a climber and in the real world?

The constant need to be moving and make changes

What drives you to climb? The money? The groupies? The fame? What?

Just the seach to find again the emotion of the first time I sat foot on an Alaskan peak with just my best partner at my side

What is your favorite movie?

Bon Cop Bad Cop. It's Québecois and make fun of Ontario

Do you have any nicknames? Explain:

Just Max

What’s the longest you’ve gone without sleep? Why?

55 hours. Once on Denali, the other times in na car driving non stop across Canada to go ice climbing

If you had to be named after one of the 50 states, which would it be?

New Hempshire. Live free or die

What did you have for lunch yesterday?

Not of your bisness

If you could hook up a thought monitor to your head, would you see pictures, hear words or would music be playing?

See picture of the Himalaya

What really scares you about climbing?

Loosing friends

If your life was made into a movie, what would it be called?

Fear of missing out

Where would you live if it could be anywhere in the world?

Chamonix Mont-Blanc, France

Have no food or have no gasoline?

Have no gasoline

Do you wish you had sexier feet?

Yah at least with no fongus