Bernard Amy was born in Lebanon in 1940. As a scientific researcher living and working in France, he is involved in artificial intelligence and cognitive sciences. An alpinist and traveller, he has visited most of the mountain ranges in the world. He is a contributing writer to mountain magazines in both North America and Europe and is the author of several books. Amy is one of the founders of Passage, a French mountaineering literary magazine. A former president of the French branch of Mountain Wilderness International Association, at present he chairs the Observatoire de l’Alpinisme, a national committee involved in the defense of alpinism. In his latest book, Le voyage à la cime, he illustrates how alpinism, writing and scientific studies are just different ways of travelling — different aspects of a single search.