Cabin Wild - Alpine Bivouac Huts

CABIN WILD is a richly illustrated collection of journeys,
stories and practical information from bivouac huts across the European Alps,
serving both as a source of inspiration and a guide to adventure. Combining
evocative mountain photography with historical insight and personal reflection,
CABIN WILD explores the cultural significance of these modest shelters, beacons
of hospitality, resilience and alpine heritage. It offers a lens through which
to experience the Alps not only as a physical landscape but as a shared space
shaped by history and imagination.

Volume One
journeys through the Western Alps, from Val Maira to Mont Blanc, with huts
featured in the Ecrins, Belledonne, Bauges and the Mont Cenis massif on the
Franco-Italian border.

Author Biography

Ben Tibbetts

Ben Tibbetts is an adventure photographer, filmmaker, artist
and internationally certified mountain guide (IFMGA). Ben studied art at the
University of Edinburgh and the Geneva School of Art and Design. His images
have won numerous awards and his films have been selected in festivals all over
the world. With a passion for wild and remote environments, he has climbed and
skied new routes in Greenland, Antarctica, Kyrgyzstan and the Alps and worked
as a guide in the most isolated corners of Antarctica. In 2018 Ben became the
second British person to climb all 82 of the Alpine 4000m peaks.

Valentine Fabre

Valentine Fabre is an adventurer, climber and ski
mountaineer. She works as an emergency and sports doctor. A former member of
the French national ski mountaineering team, she is a two-time World Champion
in the discipline.

Now an aspirant IFMGA mountain guide, she has climbed
hundreds of technical routes in the Alps and been on numerous expeditions to
the greater ranges. In 2021, Valentine and Hillary Gerardi set the fastest
women’s non-stop ski traverse of the Haute Route, covering the 107km and 8000m
of ascent from Chamonix to Zermatt in just 26 hours.