Bouldering, tensed connection linking body and rocks.
By Patrick Evesque
6 Apr 2007
Forest of Fontainebleau, France, is one of the world's most famous climbing site.
Bleau recalls us that it is compulsory to always be at our best. It is a daily challenge. Nothing is never acquired.
Touching, Gripping, all is only a question of feeling.
Returning to the essence and being in symbiosis with nature by the perfect gesture are the most important finalities in rock climbing.
Climber must adapt to his own environment. His skin must fuse with the least sandstone grain.
Each stone is different, each hold gripped by the hand requires a reading in order to figure out the most adapted gesture for the softest evolution.
It often is by this sensual approach that the climber will tame the boulder.
Being a climber with a few years of practice, I'm still as close to this universe today as i was on the first day. As an inhabitant of the parisian suburbs, this sport brings me the humility that I unceasingly need to seek in this urban environment.
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