Since a couple of months I’m on a stable way of recovering of what happened end of February to me.
It’s crazy to feel how things changed. First and most important of all, I feel in shape again. II can’t say that I feel balanced, but my muscles are doing great, especially my heart. What’s still confusing is to see how much time it takes to the organs to reach their normal function again. But me and my body, we’re working on it!;-)
Second, I feel sooooo connected to climbing. I think that’s since years I haven’t been so psyched for that sport. I like the simplicity and complexity of it, being focused while trying a route, becoming one with the mouvements, feeling the connection with your partner and the people around you.
I climb 8b+ again which is (sorry for this expression) a fucking good feeling! But I’m mostly climbing multipich routes since a while. Since my big healthy problems I’m looking more than ever to the connection with my partner. And in long routes that feeling is stronger then anywhere else to me. While living this sport I’m looking for the strong connection between nature, partner and myself.
The expedition to Greenland I had planed this summer failed, but that’s ok. I was disappointed mostly because this connection between all the team members was obviously there. But instead I did plenty of fantastic multipitch routes in one of my favorite place of the world, the gorges of Verdon.
I did easy onces and also hard onces. I climbed whatever felt and looked good, I was in the flow. I felt how important climbing is to me and what I’m searching by doing it. Grades became so useless to me, the only thing I’m looking for is the challenge, braking throw my own limits, pushing again and…..LAUGHING! Hell, climbing is soooo much fun!
