from The Adventure Blog
Philippe Crozon , a 42-year old Frenchman who had his arms and legs amputated more than 15 years ago, swam across the English Channel this past weekend with the aid of special prosthetics. The challenging swim was expected to take as much as 24-hours to complete, but he managed to finish up in just 13 1/2 hours instead. Philippe began his journey on Saturday at the British town of Folkerstone and ended at Wissant on the French side of the Channel. He covered 21 miles of open water in between, and was ...
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from TheLowDown
The Philippe Ribière interview Philippe, who was born with the Rubinstein-Taybi syndome , is: climber President of l'association Handi-Grimpe Sportif de haut niveau, fire juggler, musician, etc, etc. Quite an interesting guy!We should consider ourselves lucky Philippe discovered climbing. If not, it's very possible the world would be... a less nice place to be. In his own words he could otherwise be "the winner of the « Nobel Prize Bullshiteur»-award. I could be the fucking junk food, to work with Jean
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from daniel jung
A few days before Christmas I flew down to Reus with Markus, Lulu Raab und Philipp Sigel. We had two good weeks, with hot sun, could wind, rain and snow! I was really motivated to try "Chikane"8c+ again. So on my first day I tried it directly and it works very good. I thought that I have to do some workouts to do the sequence again. But after the first workout everything felt good so that I could start from the bottom! During I tryed "Chikane" Markus checked out "L'odi Social"8c+. Last march I also took a
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