The Bloc or the mountain in miniature.
The bouldering, or just the block, is to climb without ropes short excerpts or equipment other than climbing shoes and chalk. In case of fall, the climber is ready for a playmate and small crash pads (mattress) are arranged on the ground to absorb shocks.
This is a very friendly and playful practice, expanding since the late 90's. It grows everywhere where geological movements have produced fragments of mountains, he Whether boulders, scree or mini-cliffs.
The bouldering has existed since humans began to climb mountains. It has always been an accessible and fun physical training and sign which may serve as a basis for mountaineering.
In Europe it is a full practice since the first third of the twentieth century in the forest of Fontainebleau, serving as a backdrop to a multitude of finely carved sandstone blocks by erosion. This is also the "Bleausard" Pierre Alain, we have, after war, the first climbing shoes similar to those we use today (some climbers also still speak their "PA", pointing to their slippers).
The block is a kind of concentrated climbing, some will even say he is the quintessential ... Anyway, it makes more and more followers, especially among young climbers , is furthermore one of the most accessible subjects related to the mountain (few objective dangers, containment equipment, many sites do not usually require a walk to get ...)
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