Routes as sport in Face Ouest

A triangular bulge leads into a prominent shallow corner crack. A small fig tree has sprouted about 10m up the crack.

Was free soloed by Alain Robert in 1991. The story goes that Alain almost fell on the low percentage mantle moves, one of his feet slipping off. Photographer Laurent Belluard remembers seeing Alain re-establishing himself and finishing the route like nothing had happened. A couple of German climbers who had been trying the route were speechless.

First French 8b and second 8b in the world