Human Strength

[Spalea]

@Polar:

About #176: unlucky this guy died in November 2012. This short movie  was realised in 1982 when he was 22 years old. Of course his look and his way of climbing made him a star thank to this movie. Thank to him too, the climbing sport became popular in French (for exemple some artificial wall were built in numerous sport areas).

I think, as top athlete, he realised a perfect synthesis combining strength (pull up on a only one small finger at 9:22 of the movie), mental and physical endurance (remaining very focused during the whole lone ascension with bares hands, if not death...) and skill (perhaps the only one subjectiv parameter but I find him sublime to see in action).

And yes Kurt Albert, although older (starting to commit his life to free climbing at the age of 32 in 1986), was contemporary of Patrick Edlinger. Reply