Alexandre Chabot

France

Would you like me to describe myself in a few lines? I’ve chosen ten words which represent me the most!

Climbing: an exciting lifestyle.

Travels: essential, vital, and irresistible.

Sharing: capacity to make my life within the community and to share experiences with climbers, mountaineers, and others...

Performance: my driving force for motivation.

Pictures: necessary to dreaming and making moments immortal – Truly inspiring.

Excitements: to enjoy new sensations, to discover magical places, to meet exceptional people...

Events: to organize great big parties and to present movies/videos in a friendly, comfortable “Clubs Tour” atmosphere (Clubs Tour is an event I created in connection with a number of French climbing clubs).

Around me: family members, friends, acquaintances and animals.

Pleasures in life: gastronomy and good French wines.

Unexpected hobbies: Breakdancing, Hip hop dancing and roller skating...

Birthday? 27/12/1981

Year you first started climbing? 1994

Three climbing achievements you are most proud of?

- Abysse in Nice: a short route in the south of France that I bolted.

- Tom et je Ris in the Verdon: Beautiful climbing that I realised onsight.

- A climbing trip to Badami in India.

Memory/story of the first time you ever went climbing? On small bouldering rock in Chamonix with my parents

Favorite climbing area and why? In south of France near Nice because we can climb all the year and skiing in winter. Also, Indian Creek, because I like the desert and American crack climbing!

Best climbing experience? All my weekends and trips with my friends and locals climbers are nice experiences, as long as there are rock and beautiful landscapes.

Worst climbing experience? When my friend broke his leg in a crack on Freerider in the Yosemite

What's your dream trip? Where? With who? I would like to discover the north of India, just to find new walls and climb with a friend Jean Luc Jubert who knows India as his pocket. I love the culture of this country.

Guilty pleasure? The spirit, movement, discovery...

Something that annoys you while climbing? Highway near the cliffs and a lack of respect for nature.

What/who inspires you in climbing? My own emotions and those of other climbers and sharing

Favorite aprés-climb meal? What I have in the bottom of the bag…chips, cakes, coca, beer…

Favorite climbing flick? Jocker!

What's in your iPod? Rap, Hip Hop, Electro…

Strangest place you've ever woken up? Balzola Cave with the rain, in the Basque Country. No light to see the holds.

Three things you'd never roadtrip without? My headlamp, my climbing equipment, my pillow…

Superstitions? Not yet, I must be too young

What's your dream job? Businessman and Chippendale dancer

How are you training when you are not climbing? I climb indoor, on my rock gym and I I practice other sports (breakdancing, Hip Hop…)

If you could steal one thing and not get caught, what would it be? A Porsche car, to arrive faster at the climbing cliff.

If you could have dinner with three people (dead or alive) who would they be? With beautiful girls.

Which would you prefer: power of flight or invisibility? The invisible power, using force only at the right time

Do you have any tattoos or piercings? It’s my project for next year, but it will be just for girls!