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Caroline Ciavaldini climbs the hardest route of her career with Le Voyage

On November 8, 2023, Caroline Ciavaldini climbed one of the hardest trad routes in the world: Le Voyage (E10 7a/8b+) in Annot, France. The film Kindness offers intimate insights into the climber's process of scoring the hardest routes in a new way.

For the 39-year-old Frenchwoman, it is the most difficult ascent of her career to date – despite additional challenges that go beyond climbing. Ciavaldini and Pearson have been a young family for a few years now and have been trying to reconcile family life with their professional careers. With success, as the two have shown with their The Journey or with most difficult tours in North Wales recently proved. This video shows the process that Ciavaldini went through since becoming a mother.

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