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Philippe Ribière, the boulderer born with the Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome, recently climbed, Rumeurs Vagabondes, 7A, at La Capelle not far from Avignon, France, his hardest problem to date.
Philippe says he has virtually no power in his forearms so climbing a problem like this poses quite a...

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In reply to UKC News:

Good for him, heart-warming stuff.

Be interesting to hear more about the effects of his condition; it's not obvious at first sight why this would be a good choice of problem for someone with no power in their forearms.

jcm

In reply to UKC News:

Extremely poor choice of project.

Climbing at La Capelle has been strictly banned for over four years, as noted here La Capelle et Masmolene and on various other websites.

Some of the locals have been quietly climbing there with the authorisation of the landowner, but they haven't been making videos about it.

In reply to UKC News:

I'm pretty sure he was very recently dropped by The North Face.

In reply to TimB:

Don't worry it's not as if he turned the whole boulder into a giant white tickmark