Jean-Baptiste Tribout

First ascent.

First ascent.

References

[1] https://www.instagram.com/p/72DU26vF5X/

First ascent.

First ascent.

Second ascent.

Date not exact. Jibe apparently found the endurance style of this route to his liking but found the shorter, more bouldery Mecca - The Mid-life Crisis much harder and didn't manage to redpoint it during his stay in the UK

Second ascent.

After the second ascent, JB described the route as the 'classic 8b'. (Source - Yorkshire Limestone 1990 Rockfax) Date of ascent not exact.

Pre-1991. [1]

[1] The Power of Climbing (1991) by David Jones, page 192

First ascent.

'Stolen' from the locals, the name is JB's opinion of himself!

Pre-1991. [1]

[1] The Power of Climbing, David Jones, 1991

Pre-1991. [1]

[1] The Power of Climbing (1991) by David Jones, page 192

Pre-1991. [1]

[1] The Power of Climbing (1991) by David Jones, page 192

First ascent.

First ascent.

As for the controversy, even if no one had tried the route when I started, Allan Watts bolted the line and tried it a little bit, and at that time the belief was that a line belonged to their bolter and no one else could have a go. So there was some tension with a few locals ... The cool thing is that on the very evening of my success, the boss of Metolius [Doug Philips] invited us to the best restaurant in Bend to celebrate and that, the next day, a doctor/climber organised a big party at his place with locals climbers and we partied, drank, consumed a lot of illicit substances, and it was a wonderful moment of reconciliation with the local community. This route and this ascent have been one of the peaks of my climbing career, one of the times I was certainly the strongest. At this famous party, I moreover won the pull-up contest, on cocaine it's true, but clocking 80 pull-ups in a row nonetheless… That's still a pretty number! [1]

References

[1] https://fanatic-climbing.com/il-etait-une-voie-once-upon-a-line-just-do-it/

[2] http://novebi.ning.com/group/smithrockclimbing/forum/topics/1389802:Topic:20521

[3] https://www.instagram.com/p/CfAO2ikvrr1/

[4] https://open.spotify.com/episode/1pZeqpNbv3KPe40WYci63E?

First ascent.

References

[1] https://youtu.be/1D5l14800GQ?t=2231

Date not exact.

References

[1] https://youtu.be/1D5l14800GQ?t=3026