Seb Bouin

Greece 🇬🇷
Nid de Fada (9a?) - second go ✅

Day 1 and 2 were really cool 😎
I found a cool project in Elona sector, and I did on my second go « nid de fada » in nifada.

This route is going on the big overhang. It’s quite short, easy entrance and easy ending. The crux is about small pockets where I can’t put my fingers 😅. I have to use my pinky to do the moves. But I found some kneebars who make it not that hards.

I think Gérôme pouvreau made the FA (without kneebars I guess).
Regarding the grade, I think it eaiser than 9a if you use kneepads. I would say 8c.

The project in Elona looks pretty cool 🔥

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🇬🇷 Greece
Searching for the Megaline

And here we are in Greece 🙂
A country that has inspired me for a long time, both for climbing and for the lifestyle.

The goal of this short trip is simple: to find the Megaline.
Heading to Leonidio to explore all these walls and try to discover the most impressive, the most beautiful, and the hardest line possible.

I can already feel this is the right place to push myself.
The rhythm of life, the atmosphere, the people, the setting… everything just fits.

Now there’s only one thing left:
to find THE line.

So let’s go exploring 🔥

Asian Project

Harder, further, stronger?

I’m not entirely sure whether this project will actually make me stronger. What I do know is that it is making me grow.

It makes me grow because it confronts me more directly with my doubts, my questions, and the decisions I have to make. I need to dig deep into my mental resources to navigate this adventure in the best possible way.

Is committing to something so demanding and so far away the right thing to do?

In our world? In my life? Am I physically and mentally ready to deal with the rollercoaster that comes with a project like this?

After questioning the personal meaning of this project, it felt essential to broaden the reflection to a more collective dimension: can such a journey — and more broadly this kind of path — make sense for people other than myself? This question leads me to consider my practice not only as an individual experience, but also as a potential contribution to a different way of living and practicing climbing.

Today, climbing practices are evolving, with growing attention being given to more local, more sober and more sustainable forms of climbing. It is no longer only about performance or destination, but also about the way we engage with the activity: limiting our impact and valuing the resources that exist close to home. In this context, my choices take on a broader meaning: in their own way, they contribute to shaping a certain vision of the practice.

But this reflection is in tension with another reality: climbing is also my profession. As a professional athlete, I must also consider the image I want to convey and the direction I want to give to my career. Today, I try to find a balance between these two dimensions, notably by limiting my travel to two or three trips per year — a rhythm I would like to reduce even further in the future. For now, I am part of a dynamic where I try to reconcile sporting demands and ecological awareness as best as possible.

Next part in comment 👇

No pasaran ✅
Action discrète ✅

Grenoble updates

The city that’s increasingly becoming the French capital of climbing is full of little hidden gems, right there, under our noses.

I had the chance to send “Action Discrète” last autumn on a pretty epic day. I arrived by train from Paris at 3 p.m. in Grenoble, knowing that was working on this route. I sprinted to make the most of the few daylight hours left, to join him and climb this line (which I’d already tried before). A long, packed day that ended in the best possible way ✨

And last week, I sent a really nice route in the Narbonne sector, “No Pasaran.” First ascended by Jules Lacoste (aka Jules Marche Arrière), it’s a beautiful natural compression that’s bound to win over more than a few climbers!

Regarding the grades, both of these routes seems 8c+ to me.

Back to business after this Grenoble interlude 🔥