Seb Bouin

"I like to find something that feels impossible and then, by working a lot and training a lot, find it possible. The challenge is the motivation."

It was Bouin’s longest-standing project—150-plus days of effort—and, he says, the hardest route he’s ever climbed.

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Trying mini-projects, routes that will take you a few days instead of a few weeks, replicate the long-term project cycle in a compressed time period, simulating the mental and emotional components of limit redpointing.