Soudain Seul 9A (8C+) by Camille Coudert

Camille Coudert, who previously has done three 8C's including The Big Island, has repeated Simon Lorenzi's Soudain Seul 9A (8C+) in Fontainebleau. (c) Arthur Delicque

Fanatic Climbing has the interview where he says. "Hard to know the number of sessions I put in the boulder I would say twice a week on average for almost 8 months in all. Which must be between 70 and 100 sessions… On the other hand, I made more precise stats, I did “The Big Island” stand 43 times, 28 times in the last month and a half!"

Interestingly is that the 26-year-old began climbing at age 18. After 1.5 years he tried outdoors and got really hooked and has since, more or less, never climbed Indoor. His background prior to starting climbing was rugby, swimming and tennis but not being very sporty. It should also be mentioned that the 177 cm tall did not use a book under his knee pad as the FA did.

How was it mentally to have fallen so many times and what made you send finally?
Mentally, the last days, I was feeling better and better, because I was also in the boulder, so the physical played on the mental. In the end, what made the difference was that I was doing the standing start more and more easily. The last 3 sessions I had 100% success in standing.

What is next?
I would like to do classic boulder in Switzerland and in Fontainebleau less hard like "la rustica" "off the wagon" "dreamtime" "le pilier du dessert assis" ... And I also have an extreme project in Fontainebleau in mind that I'm going to try, but I still keep it to myself.