IA typical training session, which Bruno considers "short" starts out from his home in Châtillon (600 meters in altitude) and reaches 2700 meters to the summit of the Zerbion. He then descends and goes to work (he is a stone mason). If he only accomplishes this climb of 2100 meters of positive vertical descent per day, he feels that he has done "little" and makes up for it by making another climb in the evening. In this period of build-up and training, climbing the Zerbion twice in a row is almost a normal workout (4200 meters of positive vertical descent). This past winter was particularly cold (almost constantly sub-zero); however, Bruno kept up with his training and didn't hesitate to climb to an altitude of 3500 meters to the Plateau Roseau Guide Refuge even when the temperature reached 34 degrees below zero!! He was more irritated by the fact of having to sleep without his wife than he was by the cold.
One evening while he was climbing to the refuge after work, he took off a glove in order to open his thermos and the wind snatched the glove from his hand. Brunod obviously hadn't brought another pair (on Mt Everest we'll tie them around his neck). Anyone else would have panicked since the refuge was still far and the temperature was around 30 degrees below zero, but Bruno with typical calmness put the bare hand in his pocket, transferred the ski pole to his arm pit and resumed running. The next day he came sown with his hand in his pocket.
At any rate, he has made progress since the time when, years ago, after serving coffee, Brunod left for his training session on the Plateau with an oven mit in place of a glove.
It was a warmer day, only 25 degrees below zero, but Bruno suffered the cold a bit more because he was wearing a ski suit without pockets.
They say that, upon entering the refuge, Bruno plunged his nearly frozen hand into a cup of hot chocolate and told the perplexed customer "don't worry, it's clean".

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