Bruno 'Graou' Clement
Posted on 2014-05-14 - filed under verdon
For those unfamiliar with the world of French rock climbing
this man is Bruno Clement. To date, he has probably contributed more in real terms to French free climbing than anyone before or since. He's not even sure how many new climbs he's bolted but thinks it might be in the region of 500 in the Verdon region alone and this is probably only a portion of his total life's work so far.
Yesterday while preparing to belay him on one of his recent creations, an esoteric and brutal 8b+ roof crack for the camera of Keith Ladzinski www.ladzinski.com
and Colette McInerney and the pen of Andrew Bisharat www.eveningsends.com I took this snapshot
of him.
At that moment I saw in his face and hands the strength
and untamed passion of a great artist.
Like the verdon Gorge itself - a force of nature.
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