Keyword: France

Katherine Choong scores in the French Le Précipice de Corbière E-Space Challenge (8c +). The heavily overhanging line was drilled by Nicolas Glée and first climbed in 2018 by the German competition climber Sebastian Halenke.

The French Solène Amoros and the Swiss Katherine Choong manage the red point ascent of the difficult multi-pitch tour Alibaba (240m, 8a +) in Aiglun, France. Both athletes lead climbed all eight pitches in the correct order. They spent a total of three and a half days on the wall.

The route Le Voyage in southern France is one of the most demanding trad routes in the world. This video shows the ascent of the two professional climbers Jacopo Larcher and Siebe Vanhee.

On Friday 22nd July and Saturday 23rd July 2022 the IFSC Lead World Cup will take place in Briançon, France. Here you can find the program and the live streams of the competitions.

The IFSC Lead World Cup will take place in Chamonix, France, from July 8th to 10th, 2022. The competition program and the live broadcast can be found here.

In the nineteenth edition of BETA, we talk to Sébastien Bouin about the world's second 9c sport climbing route. The Frenchman made the first ascent of DNA in the Verdon Gorge on April 29, 2022. Assessing the route was not easy for Bouin, as he reveals in an interview.

The American Sean Bailey succeeds in climbing one of the most difficult routes in the world: bibliography in the French climbing area of ​​Céüse.

Stefano Ghisolfi downgraded the 9c-Route bibliography by Alexander Megos to 9b +. We talked to Megos about it.