16 November 2012(2012-11-16) (aged 52) La Palud-sur-Verdon
Climbing career
Type of climber
Sport climbing, bouldering
Highest grade
Redpoint: 8c (5.14b)
Known for
Pioneer of sport climbing
World finals
Rock Master: 1
Sportroccia: 1
Updated on 15 May 2013.
Patrick Edlinger (15 June 1960 – 16 November 2012) was a professional French rock climber. Edlinger is considered a pioneer and a legend of sport climbing.[1][2] He was the second-ever climber in history to ascend routes of grade 7c (5.12d) with Nymphodalle (1979), and grade 7c+ (5.13a) with Le Toit (1981). He was the first-ever climber in history to onsight routes of grade 7b+ (5.12c) with Captain crochet (1982), and grade 7c (5.12d) with La Polka des Ringards (1982).
^"Adieu Patrick Edlinger". planetmountain.com. 17 November 2012. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
^"Patrick Edlinger: The highs and lows of France's pioneering rock god". The Independent. 1 December 2012. Archived from the original on 25 May 2022.
PatrickEdlinger (15 June 1960 – 16 November 2012) was a professional French rock climber. Edlinger is considered a pioneer and a legend of sport climbing...
Johann Georg Edlinger (1741–1819), Austrian portrait painter PatrickEdlinger (1960–2012), professional French free climber Rudolf Edlinger (1940–2021)...
Nicholas (17 November 2012). "Adieu PatrickEdlinger". PlanetMountain. It was at the famous Luberon crag Buoux that Edlinger first began to leave his indelible...
solos in single-pitch (El Matador), and big wall (Bonatti Pillar). PatrickEdlinger – a leading European free soloist of the 1980s, with iconic big wall...
called "traditional climbing". By the 1980s, French pioneers like PatrickEdlinger wanted to climb rock faces in Buoux and Verdon that had few cracks...
in 82 days. Patrick Berhault is best known for popularizing sport climbing in France with his friend rock climber legend PatrickEdlinger in the late...
climbing protection. In France, leading climbers such as Patrick Berhault and PatrickEdlinger began to pre-drill permanent bolts into the pocket-marked...
Face being a notable example. At this time, French climbers such as PatrickEdlinger began to pre-drill permanent masonry bolts into the almost "blank"...
about the same difficulty as the boulder problem on Freerider. Though PatrickEdlinger achieved fame in this regard, Robert also pushed the limits of free...
natural rock surfaces and their first winners were Stefan Glowacz, PatrickEdlinger and Catherine Destivelle. In 1988–89, the French Federation and Paul...
in Oliana beside La Dura Dura called Le Blond, named in memory of PatrickEdlinger; it remains unfinished. In March 2023, aged 41, Sharma made the first...
rock climber, and pioneer of bouldering; inventor of modern crampon PatrickEdlinger (1960–2012) France, first person to onsight 7c (5.12d), and second-ever...
List of grade milestones in rock climbing History of rock climbing PatrickEdlinger, French sport climber Steve McClure, British sport climber In 2018...
Jean-Claude Dreyfus : The inspector Jacques Gamblin : The young cop PatrickEdlinger : Himself Patrice Laffont : Himself Marie Sara : Herself Hubert Reeves :...
Year Male Female 1987 Stefan Glowacz Lynn Hill 1988 Stefan Glowacz PatrickEdlinger Lynn Hill 1989 Didier Raboutou Lynn Hill 1990 François Legrand Lynn...
Andrea Gallo (8th). The competition was held from July 11 to 13. Only PatrickEdlinger finished the final climb, which was named Caduta degli dei, 7c+ ("Damned")...
player 18 May – Yannick Noah, tennis player and musician 15 June – PatrickEdlinger, rock climber (died 2012) 8 July – Yann LeCun, computer scientist 12...
standing and vision impaired women starting at 10:00 PM. Carina Edlinger and guide Julian Edlinger are scheduled to start. The pair are then scheduled to start...
and Agus Chuadar, 1998) Who shot Immanence? (edited together with Thomas Edlinger and Fritz Ostermayer, 2002) Leutezeichnungen (edited together with Elffriede...
Davatzes, 79, American television executive, founder of A&E Networks. Rudolf Edlinger, 81, Austrian politician and football executive, minister of finance (1997–2000)...
Friday". Paralympic.org. 10 March 2022. Retrieved 10 March 2022. Burke, Patrick (12 March 2022). "Vaspi forced to miss slalom at Beijing 2022 after schedule...
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