A competitor in workwear swings an axe through a horizontal log mounted on wooden supports, with a crowd of spectators and forested mountain

France’s 73rd lumberjack championship tests axe skills in Chamrousse

France’s oldest lumberjack competition, the 73rd edition of the country’s national bûcheronnage championship, returned to the Alpine resort of Chamrousse over the weekend, where 60 competitors raced axes through logs before a crowd of roughly 2,000 spectators, according to Africanews. The contest, a longstanding fixture on the French forestry calendar, gathers woodcutters from across the […]

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