Le Blond - The Ballad Of Patrick Edlinger
My admiration for mountaineers might have something to do with my own fear of heights. Here I celebrate the gravity-defying Frenchman who introduced the world to the thrills of free climbing.
A version of this article appeared in The New European.
"I climb to feel in harmony with myself, because I live in the moment, because it's a form of ethical and aesthetic expression through which I can realise myself because I seek total liberty of body and mind. And because I like it." Patrick Edlinger
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