Eddie Bauer - Freeing The Verdon Gorge

Eddie Bauer - Freeing The Verdon Gorge drops you onto the towering limestone walls of southern France with free climbers Katie Lambert and Caroline George. In this short, transportive film from Cheyne Lempe, the pair chase proud lines above the river-cut void of the Verdon, taking on classic, delicate routes where exposure is constant and the climbing demands calm precision. What makes it worth watching is the mix of beauty and bite: sunlit stone, dizzying drop-offs, and the quiet tension of run-out sequences that echo an earlier era of airy sport climbing. With standout objectives like Surveiller et Punir and Pichenibule, the film pairs high-grade movement with an honest look at fear management and commitment—best experienced with headphones on as you get pulled into the rhythm of the gorge.

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In this transportive Cheyne Lempe video, Eddie Bauer free climbers Katie Lambert and Caroline George climb with pride in the visually stunning Verdon Gorge of southern France, where classily run-out, sandbagged and delicate routes recall an earlier pioneering era of airy sport climbing. The trip involved high-grade free climbing on Surveiller et Punir and Pichenibule that Lambert had envisioned since her early training days in the American deep south and one that forced Caroline George to face her alpinist’s fear of falling on the atmospheric rock routes that made the towering cliffs famous in international climbing circles. Put the headphones on and enjoy.