Dave Barnes takes a look at one of climbing's most promising talents, Theo Blass. He finds out first hand from family and friends what drives the ten-year-old, who recently became the youngest person to climb 8c.
Theo walks along a familiar path to his local limestone crag near Montpellier in the South of France. For a thousand years, this part of France has basked in the sun and has witnessed the trade winds bring people and produce from faraway places and plant both here. Students fill the city and families work the earth out in the villages amongst the limestone hills that interrupt the plough and the lines of grapes. Amongst these, a climbing prince is making his way up a steep path to the king lines at the crag. Theo Blass is ten years of age, a lover of science, a mad mountain biker, a whizz on the ski slopes and a climber on the rise at his local crag where he recently climbed an 8c. He may be 4'5" and a featherweight, but he pulls big numbers on his way to the chains.
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