25 Mar Le voyage de Zhong Kui 8C+ new traverse
Jean-Pierre Bouvier, born in 1957, better known as La Mouche, has succeeded in the round trip of Le voyage de Zhong Kui at Cuvier, Fontainebleau, and proposes the grade 8C + traverse
In 2004 he had invented the version "one way" Le voyage of Zhong Kui (8B). In recent years, "La mouche" has opened in Bleau a large number of extreme traverses on 8C , not yet repeated.
Jean-Pierre Bouvier is a long lived French climber. To the younger climbers maybe his name name will not say much, but for those born in the sixties Bouvier was a myth, like Berhault or Edlinger.
In 1981 "La Mouche" opens Chimpanzodrome in Sassois, 7c + into just 15 meters that at that time was with La Haine by Berhault at La Turbie the hardest route of France. A few years later he repeated the route also in free solo
In 1994 he was still at the highest level with the first redpoint ascent of Festin de pierre 8c + / 9a again in Sassois. This just to fix two highlights of his impressive curriculum…
Here all the photos
Source: bleau info – kairn

