Red Bridge Festiglace
International Ice Climbing Festival — Competition, Clinics and Celebrations at the edge of the Jacques-Cartier · Île aux Raisins, Chemin du Bois de l'Ail, Pont-Rouge, MRC de Portneuf, Québec, Canada
The festival
In Pont-Rouge, Portneuf, the frozen waterfalls of Île aux Raisins, on the Jacques-Cartier River, become a stadium: the Festiglace, an international festival of ice climbing and winter outdoors, has been gathering the best climbers in the world and Quebec since 1997. At the heart of the event, the Enduro competition, a formula presented as unique in the world, played on twenty of the 55 lanes of the site.
The next edition will be held from Wednesday 17 to Sunday 21 February 2027; access to the site is free.
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The festival in images
Photos of the 2025 edition: © Thomas Courtois, photographer of the event (series published by the festival).
Video
Festiglace is back! // The Festiglace is back!
Source: official YouTube channel Pont-Rouge Festiglace
Good to know
Organized by a non-profit organization entirely voluntary (administrative board of 7 members, organizing committee of 10 people, nearly 70 volunteers). After a lack of more than a decade, the festival was relaunched in February 2020. On the program: spectacular competitions (Enduro OPEN, Enduro Pro, difficulty), free refreshment clinics and initiations, evening conferences and adventure films, free family activities on the weekend (climate climbing, snowshoes, snowga, slackline), music and heated tent. Only clinics and conferences are paid; parking $10 with free shuttle. Official contact published: [email protected] (newsletter of the festival).
Liens officiels
Ticket: (access to the free website; fee-based registrations at clinics and conferences on the official website)