Patrick Gabarrou

Patrick Gabarrou

Nascimento : 1951-07-19, Evreux, France

História

Patrick Gabarrou is a French mountaineer, mountain guide and lecturer born on July 19, 1951 in Évreux. French ski-mountaineering champion in 1989, Patrick Gabarrou is first and foremost a high-level glacier climber, even though he has taken part in a number of high-difficulty rock climbs. He is one of the most active forerunners of his generation: 300 firsts, including fifteen on the prestigious Mont Blanc. He is also the author of several routes in the very difficult north face of the Grandes Jorasses, but also in less known massifs such as the Argentera massif. Patrick Gabarrou has also climbed summits in Bolivia, Alaska, Canada, Patagonia and in the Himalayas (Everest as well as the Unnamed Peak at 7,900 meters). Denouncing what he describes as torture and extermination camps and the Tibetan genocide, he gives the name Free Tibet to the path he opened in October 1996 with Philippe Batoux on the south face of Triolet. In 1996, he opposed a controversial Franco-Chinese expedition to Tibet. During the winter of 2007, he was the victim of an ice climbing accident which caused him a broken rib and vertebra as well as a perforation of the lung. He was president of the international environmental NGO Mountain Wilderness from 2006 to 2010. He is primarily an ice climber and is considered a pioneer of the modern wave of ice climbing. In 2021, for his 60th birthday, Patrick Gabarrou offered himself the opening of a new route at the Tour Noir in the Mont Blanc Massif. A gift he shared with his daughter Heidi who was celebrating her 25th birthday. Training philosophy, he intervenes as a speaker on Team Building, surpassing oneself...

Perfil

Patrick Gabarrou
Patrick Gabarrou
Patrick Gabarrou
Patrick Gabarrou

Filmes

Explore Mont Blanc
Self
Chamonix - Mont Blanc, Une histoire de conquêtes
Self
Jean-Marc Boivin, Extremely Yours
Self (archive footage)
Jean-Marc Boivin had chosen the natural elements as his playground. In his quest for extremes and discoveries. By turns mountaineer, skier, hang-glider, explorer, paraglider, sailor, speleologist or base-jumper, he loved constantly exploring “terra incognita” and playing with the limits of the possible. His "career" - the word is so weak - Jean-Marc, one day, agreed to tell the strongest moments to his father who recorded everything: happiness, doubts, emotions and difficulties. In this film, which won the Human Adventure Prize at the Saint Hilaire du Touvet Free Flight Film Festival, it is Jean-Marc who himself “comments” on some of his most spectacular feats. Confronted with period documents, Jean-Marc's voice-over sheds new and moving light on the extraordinary personality of a man who once admitted "having lived all his dreams"...
La Cordée de Rêve
Self
La Cordée de Rêve traces the great alpine journey made from August 2000 to February 2001 by Patrick Berhault. His great crossing of the Alps, here told to his daughter, will be done sometimes alone, sometimes surrounded by friends: Patrick Gabarrou, Patrick Edlinger, Ottavio Fassini, Gaël Bouquet des Chaux, Valérie Aumage, Philippe Magnin. During this alpine trip he will find his brother-in-arms Patrick Edlinger for the dolimitic part and will also see the genesis of the "Cordée Magique Berhault/Magnin". For 167 days, in sneakers in the fall, on touring skis in the winter, Patrick Berhault chained 2 to 3 stages of an average hiker daily, swallowing 1,500 to 2,000 meters of vertical drop and up to 45 kilometers per day. , and climbed 22 peaks. It's called that: "La Grande Cordée" but behind this title lies an exceptional human and sporting performance.
Extreme Ice
Self
Directed by Jean-Marc Boivin in 1977, Glace Extrême is a documentary about mountaineering and extreme skiing at the Aiguille Verte and the Grand Pilier D'angle in the Mont-Blanc massif chain in France, with the legends of mountaineering Jean-Marc Boivin, Patrick Gabarrou and ski champion Patrick Vallencant. It was broadcast in the Carnet de L'Aventure on France 2 in 1980.