| From: | Austria 🇦🇹 |
| Gender: | Male |
| Height: | 180 cm |
| Weight: | 77 kg |
| Hardest Boulder (Worked): | 8C |
| Hardest Boulder (Flash): | 8A |
| Hardest Sport (Worked): | 9a |
There are two factors which determine the quality of movement: Precision on one side, speed on the other. If you are very precise, like Marc le Menestrel, you tend to be rather slow. If you are fast you tend to be sloppy. It's always a trade-off. In my opinion, Klem is the climber at the moment who balances these factors best and potentially can climb the hardest things.
Of course there is more to hard climbing but this gives you an idea of Klem's style - very accurate and very speedy. A friend once described Klem as "digital", either 'on' or 'off'.
Spending time around him is like being surrounded by a nice, comforting but blurry cloud, whereas Klem himself seems to live in this ultrasharp, high contrast environment where things and thoughts happen very quickly. When tired or bored Klem falls asleep instantly, with little awareness of what's going on around him. [1]
[1] Klem Lostkot by Mike Robertson, On The Edge Issue 114, page 54