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I’m back in Switzerland after a short trip to the Red River Gorges. I can truly say that this trip was not really successfully for me…before I left I felt small pain in my right heel and this pain was getting stronger and stronger during the first days of my trip.

The Red River Gorge is an amazing place to be, especially for climbing, but for me it was not so cool. All my friends were there and the routes are so amazing but I was just unable to climb….I cut my shoes and I tryed to climb with tape, but my inflammation was getting bigger and bigger.

After one week I finally accepted my injury and I took the decision to fly back home. Instead of only waiting for our flight, I changed my role and for the 5 days left, I was filming all the time and honestly, I was super psyched for that!

 

Back in Switzerland, Cédric was editing a little clip about his great performances there.

Enjoy the film and I hope that you like my images!;-)

 

Life is how it is and I have the chance to travel so much. Next time will be better, for shure!

Pictures: Francois Lebeau and Axel Balley

Silbergeier – Der Film

Endlich ist es so weit, an diesem Freitag wird der Silbergeierfilm zum ersten Mal überhaupt präsentiert:

Für alle, die diesen Freitag schon etwas vorhaben oder für diejenigen, denen das Prättigau ein bisschen zu weit weg ist, am nächsten Freitag ist die zweite Vorführung in der Boulderhalle Minimum in Wollishofen:

Ich freue mich sehr darauf, diesen bewegten Bilder euch zeigen zu können. Nebst Film gibts einen reellen Eindruck hinter die Kulissen dieser Arbeit. Fotograf Stefan Schlumpf und Kameramann Diego Defilla werden euch ein wenig schildern, wie das denn so ist, wenn man 200 Meter über dem Boden arbeitet…

 

 

 

 

 

Welcome to my new website!

I will invide you to go and have a look on all the new pictures, gallerys, articles and enjoy the new and much more open outfit!

But not only my page got a new outfit, also my climbing projects were changing a lot their style. After my send of the really steep and physical 8b+ on ‘la Saumme’ I was super psyched to finish my last open project of this year, the ‘spécialistes’.

The spécialistes is situaded in the really beginning of the gorges of Verdon and I’ve had already the chance to climb on this route with Jonathan Sigrist while our Arcteryx trip this spring.

This unique route is placed in a 45 degree overhanging wall and the climbing style is juste awesome! Unfortunalety every hold in the route is really sharp and after two runs, you’re out of skin and you got bad and bloody holds everywhere…

I was there for a little week with Mike Fuselier because he wanted to try the new version of ‘les spé direct, 8c+’. Mike is my really best friend and it’s fantastic to travel together with him because he’s always kidding, we are laughing all the time.

First day I was super close to send but the days after, it was getting really hot and our ‘taped’ fingers were slippering on every hold! Even my climb-on cream was useless…

Here’s a little video of my ‘almost’ send…I have to go back with a good skin and probably with a stronger bizeps…

After 4 days we gave up and we decided to join two friends of us, Gerome Pouvreau and Florence Pinet for a boulder session in the beautiful forest of Annot.

I really appreciaded these two days because it was the first time since two years I was bouldering outside and the landscape, the problems and the cool ambiance was the perfect challenge I needed after trying so hard the spécialistes….Enjoy the nice pictures from Mike Fuselier and a big thank’s to Gerome and Flo for the privet Annot local guide tour!;-)

And in the end I would like to tell you a fantastic news:

I’m officially in the Scarpa team since one month. I’m really proud to be part of the New Rock family in Switzerland because we have the same imagination about what climbing should be and we are folloing the same ideas. At this place I would also like to say a big thank you to Five Ten for their support for the last three years.

Little Kings

I’m really happy about my red point of ‘Little King’, 8c in St. Ange. St. Ange is our Grenoble-home crag and I felt off this route more then 25 times…;-)