Bernard Amy

Born in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1940, Bernard is climber, writer, journalist, engineer as well as cognitive scientist and researcher. His studies led him from France to California, where he took up John Muir’s concept of “wilderness” as well as the Sierra Club’s line of thinking.

He began his mountaineering career in the Alps, and soon turned to expeditions to remote mountains. Bernard writes on mountain literature: he was co-founder of the French magazines “Passage” and “Altitudes” and a member of the editorial team of the French Alpine Club journal “Montagne et Alpinisme”.
Bernard is among the signatories of the Biella Theses and one of the founders and former presidents of Mountain Wilderness France.
In 1968, Bernard participated in the expedition of the Marseille climbers to the Fitz Roy East pillar in Patagonia, before heading for the Moroccan Atlas. In 1969, he organised an expedition to the mountains of Kurdistan and the Cilo Dağı range. Then he went to Peru and to North America where he accomplished the second ascent of the Lotus Flower Tower in the Logan Mountains. In the Himalayas he participated in an expedition to Gurja Himal (Dhaulagiri massif) and led an expedition in the Hindu Kush in Pakistan in 1974. In 1975, he made several ascents in the Tasermiut fjord region in Greenland. With Haroun Tazieff and his vulcanologist team, Bernard took part in many scientific missions on various volcanoes around the world. In France, Bernard opened an almost endless amount of new routes.