1 August 2022

The passion for climbing is Patxiโ€™s engine

Advertorial: At the age of 41, Spaniard Patxi Usobiaga has achieved a lot. He looks back on a long, successful career as a professional rock climber, sport climber and boulderer. He has won two Lead Climbing World Cups in a row and climbed 267 routes in grades 8a to 9a+ during his career, 158 of them "onsight." He was the first climber to succeed in climbing an 8c+ route onsight (Bizi Euskaraz, in Etxauri, 2007).

With the Deuter Gravity Motion he gets fit for all his climbing tours. Besides his family, he loves nothing more than hanging out on the rock: "It's a way to find my happiness and realize myself. We all need something to fight for, a reason to improve and maybe become a better person. I manage to do that when I'm climbing. And so it has become my passion that I am dedicated to."

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