Tangka

In the wake of 'La vie au bout des doigts', shot in La Piade and Buoux, 'Opera vertical', the following movement of Jean-Paul Janssen, takes us to Verdon, Patrick Edlinger's favorite land. The film opens with a training session and then shows the enchainment of 'l’Ange en Décomposition' (7a), in which Edlinger falls voluntarily to show the usefulness of the rope. Later, a final and anthological scene shows a close-up of Edlinger, who climbs solo and barefoot a difficult route in the Verdon over hundreds of meters void, accompanied by lyrical music of Johann Sebastian Bach.

Patrick Edlinger, certainly the most famous rock climber in the world at the time, is the protagonist of this short film set in the most famous and wild climbing zones in the United States: Smith Rock, Hueco Tanks, Yosemite, and Joshua Tree. The camera follows Edlinger's spectacular performance over the most difficult routes. It catches his elegant gestures that seem to cancel the law of gravity, the passages of complete free climbing and also the various aspects of the wild uncontaminated environment in which the climbers move.