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Dylan Chuat climbs Bouin's Beyond (9a+)
Can you tell us more about Beyond?
This is one of the 5 most beautiful routes I’ve ever climbed in my life, that’s for sure! I’d never have thought that such a small hold on such a big overhang could work and not even be that extreme! A very smooth approach [intro section] to climb, a first major boulder that finishes by jumping onto a tufa, then a transition to a second huge boulder and all this while finishing on the most beautiful colonette in the south of France, apparently! I think that’s the perfect definition of a king line, right? I’m glad to be back in shape after my operations and to be able to climb routes like this again! Now that the vacations are over, I hope to be able to get back on some really hard routes soon!
You mentioned an operation?
It was appendicitis that went wrong, and I had to be operated on twice because I was having septicemia, so they opened up my stomach twice. The first one in the beginning of December.
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