Seb Bouin takes on Cimaï
In this week's Friday Night Video, Seb Bouin gets a technical lesson when he visits Cimaï near the south coast of France. Cimaï features a number of routes that are important to French climbing history, specifically Samizdat (8a), which was climbed by Antoine le Menestrel in 1987 and considered to be the world's first onsight of an 8a. Then there was Lynn Hill's redpoint of Masse Critique, the first time a woman had climbed an 8b+.
Seb has his work cut out on the technical masterpieces of the classic crag: