Ludo Delmotte completes La Force (8Cc+)

Ludo Delmotte has repeated Alban Levier’s La force (8C+) in Fontainebleau. Since the climb consists of approximately 35 moves, both 9a and 8C have been proposed as possible grades. In Fontainebleau, a unique intermediate traverse grade is sometimes used, and this is how it is reported in the news. VL attempts to distinguish traverse gradings by using the term 8Cc+.

Can you tell us more about the ascent and the process behind?
This line is composed of “Act 1” (8A) followed by an upside down rest, then the hardest part “Act 2”(8B) and finished by “Morpheus” (7C).

Four years ago, when I did “Quoi de Neuf” (same beginning but ending up on the right) the left exit (La Force) seemed impossible to me.

Two years ago, I finally started working on “La force” but did not try it in 2023. This year I came back into it. I did 4 sessions of only trying the moves. Then I started “sending session” and I did it at the 2nd try. In total I did Morpheus more than 50 times for training. It tooks me 17 sessions and I fell in the final section (morpheus) 5 times.

For me, it is the most beautiful roof in the world. Right next to where I grew up.