Remember the free hanging rope climb exercise in PE class, remember how difficult that was? Well, evidently there are some people who turned that challenge into a passion.
Frenchwoman Anouk Garnier’s new world-record rope climb is stunning. The arms of a normal fit person scream with lactic acid burn just watching it.
Climbing 360 feet, or 110 meters, in 18 minutes allowed her to climb up through the center of the Eiffel Tower into the iron bosom of its second floor.
Her attempt was in the name of raising money for cancer research and prevention after her mother was diagnosed with the disease.
The previous world record, the Guardian reports, was held by the South African athlete Thomas Van Tonder, who climbed around 300 feet up a rope suspended between the Soweto Towers in Johannesburg.
Garnier’s climb supplanted the female world rope climb record held by Ida Mathilde Steensgaard a staggering 4.5-times over.
“My dream has come true. It’s magical,” Garnier told the gathered media. “If there was one thing I never doubted, it was that I was going to do it. I never stopped believing in it. The satisfaction and joy I derive from it today are all the greater. It’s a crazy dream come true.”
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Garnier’s specialty isn’t rope climbing per se, but rather obstacle challenges. She won the world obstacle course championship for her age category in 2022, the same year she decided to go for Steensgaard’s record of 26 meters, which she described thinking “wasn’t that high” when she first heard about it.
Garnier will be carrying the Olympic torch in Marseille in May for the lead-up to the Summer Olympics.
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