17 March 2024

Tristan Chen footage from Desperanza

Tristan Chen sent Desperanza (8C) in December only 18 months after being diagnosed with leukemia which required a bone marrow transplant a couple of months later. "After the events of last year I feel as though any hope to a sense of purpose I possessed was shown to be illusory, as if scoured clean with my marrow. I feel like this climb was one of my last moorings to hard bouldering and I’m left floating in a void ready to deemphasise bouldering for something else yet to be determined. Whether that be a different form of climbing, finding a new career, a new hobby, or simply pushing forward towards a light from within. The future remains uncertain.”
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