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7 May 2025

The book: Géraldine Fasnacht, the Bird Woman

A book. A life. A new chapter. Nearly ten years in the making, an autobiography that shares her lessons, her joys and her failures, published by Éditions Arthaud with Florence Saugues.

It is with great emotion that I announce the release of my book. An autobiography, yes, but above all a life path. It took me almost ten years to be ready to write it, to find the right words, to go through the sometimes very strong emotions this work awakened.

This book is not a list of achievements. It is a sharing. Of my lessons, my joys, my failures too. Of the storms life sometimes puts in our way, and of the light we find afterwards, thanks to a passion, to the people around us, or to a strength we discover within.

Thank you to Éditions Arthaud for their trust, and to the immense talent of Florence Saugues, journalist at Paris Match and precious friend, who accompanied me throughout this inner journey.

It comes out on 7 May, my mother’s birthday, a nod full of gratitude to the one who has always supported me, like my whole family.

Available in all bookshops in Switzerland and France, online (Payot, Fnac, Amazon, Orell Füssli, Ex Libris, Buchhaus, La Fontaine, Baobab) and in Verbier at Ski Service, The North Face, Téléverbier and the Fjörk Merino pop-up.

24 January 2025

Nordend, dreaming beyond limits

After its success on RTS, the film of the high-altitude flight and extreme descent of the Nordend is available on Amazon Prime and Uptrack, and is touring festivals.

On 13 June 2024, Géraldine achieved an unprecedented feat: a high-altitude flight followed by an extreme snowboard descent of the north-west face of the Nordend, a slope of more than 50°.

“Flying and riding is my way of expressing myself. For a brief moment, I become one with the elements.”

Directed by Guido Perrini and produced by Line Prod with the support of RTS, the film is touring festivals: NYCIFF (New York), NZ Mountain Film (New Zealand), FIFAD (Les Diablerets).

7 March 2023

Line & Air: the film is out

With The North Face, the Line & Air documentary follows three world-class riders on iconic Alpine lines, reached aboard her ultralight aircraft.

18 June 2022

SolarStratos: first jump from a solar aircraft

With Raphaël Domjan, Géraldine performed the first-ever wingsuit jump from a solar-powered aircraft, in front of a large crowd in Verbier.

1 December 2021

Adventurer of the Year, Paris Match

Paris Match named Géraldine “Adventurer of the Year”, the first woman to receive the title, after legends like Bertrand Piccard and Jean-Louis Étienne.

1 December 2021

Ride Aletsch, Line of the Year

Ride Aletsch won “Line of the Year” at the Montagne en Scène festival by public vote, touring Europe’s finest venues.

8 March 2021

Échappées belles on France 5, with Géraldine

Géraldine took part in the travel show “Valais, Switzerland’s treasure”: postcard landscapes, grand glaciers and secret valleys explored by Ismaël Khelifa.

19 December 2018

Géraldine in Iran

Invited by the Iranian alpine club to Tehran and Kermanshah for talks, she flew again from the summit of Bisotoon, which she opened in 2010, and was named honorary citizen, “The Bisotun Bird”.

27 January 2018

Godmother of the Mont Gelé cable car

With Estelle Balet and Xavier De Le Rue, Géraldine is godmother of the new Mont Gelé cable car (3,023 m), a pyramid at the heart of Verbier reserved for freeriders, inaugurated on 27 January 2018.

11 December 2017

Night wingsuit flight at 5,500 m above the Alps

A world first: at dawn, at −30 °C, Géraldine leapt from the helicopter more than 1,000 m above the Grand Combin in an illuminated wingsuit and streaked like a white dot among the glaciers.