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Patrick Edlinger

Patrick Edlinger

Actor · Born 1960-06-15 · Dax, Landes, France

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Biography

Patrick Edlinger, born June 15, 1960 in Dax and died November 16, 2012 in La Palud-sur-Verdon, was a French climber and mountaineer. Renowned for his full solo ascents, he is one of the pioneers of high-level free climbing and was, in the 1980s, one of the first media figures in the discipline. Introduced to climbing at the age of nine, Patrick Edlinger practiced regularly at fourteen to devote himself fully to it at eighteen. Spending his days on the cliff, it happens to him, for lack of finding partners to belay him, to climb solo. With his friend Patrick Berhault, he distinguished himself by difficult achievements for the time, prefiguring another way of climbing, where the physical dimension takes precedence as much as the state of mind. In 1982, Patrick Edlinger introduced rock climbing to the general public thanks to documentaries by Jean-Paul Janssen broadcast around the world: "Life At Your Fingertips" and ""Opéra Vertical". There is free climbing and, partly, full solo, routes from the famous sites of Buoux (Luberon) and the Gorges du Verdon. Edlinger exposes a philosophy of climbing where hedonism, respect and love of nature, self-transcendence and a taste for risk are …

Movies & TV Shows

  1. The Beautiful Story (1992) — Self
  2. Among Wolves (1985) — Patrick
  3. Champs-Elysées (1982) — Self
  4. Life by the Fingertips (1982) — Self
  5. Droit de Réponse (1981) — Self
  6. Le Grand Échiquier (1972) — Self
  7. The Fingertip Phenomenon (1984) — Self
  8. Edlinger, la liberté au bout des doigts (2023) — Self
  9. Le Grec - Georges Livanos (1994) — Self
  10. Berhault (2008) — Self
  11. Les Conquérants de l'Impossible: Portrait de Groupe (1986) — Self
  12. Verdon Forever (1998) — Self
  13. Oversand (1981) — Self
  14. Overdon (1980) — Self
  15. Roc'n Wall 97 (1997) — Self
  16. Over-Ice (1981) — Self
  17. Arrowhead (1989) — Self
  18. Passion Extrême (1989) — Self
  19. Plan-Séquence (1992) — Self
  20. Le Dernier Voyage de Patrick Edlinger (2017) — Self
  21. Aventure à Bleau (1980) — Self
  22. Profession grimpeur, Eric Escoffier (1985) — Self
  23. En Solo : L'ivresse des sommets (2022) — Self (footage archive)
  24. Une Vie au dessus du vide (2023) — Self (archive footage)
  25. Une Araignée au Plafond (2021) — Self (archive footage)
  26. Opera Vertical (1984) — Self
  27. La Cordée de Rêve (2001) — Self
  28. Verdon-Saussois 1983 (1983) — Self
  29. Il Était Une Voie Edlinger (1997) — Self
  30. Cateissard (2016) — Self (archive footage)
  31. The Future of Climbing (2025) — Self (archive footage)