{"id":48718,"date":"2011-02-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.up-climbing.com\/boulder\/news-boulder-2\/better-than-chocolate-bouldering-in-svizzera\/"},"modified":"2011-02-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T00:00:00","slug":"better-than-chocolate-bouldering-in-svizzera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.up-climbing.com\/en\/boulder\/news-boulder\/better-than-chocolate-bouldering-in-svizzera\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Better Than Chocolate&#8221; bouldering in Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Why Switzerland?&quot; asks Haroun Souirji presenting his film &#8211; &quot;The answer is pretty simple. Fontainebleau aside, it probably has the largest concentration of bouldering areas in Europe and arguably the best gneiss rock anywhere. 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