Jean-Baptiste Tribout

Jean-Baptiste Tribout
Personal information
Nationality	French
Born	December 14, 1961 (age 64); Paris
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight	63 kg (139 lb)
Climbing career
Type of climber	Competition climbing; Sport climbing;
Highest grade	8c+ (5.14c);
Retired from competition	1998
Medal record
IFSC Climbing World Cup

Jean-Baptiste Tribout, or J.B. Tribout (born 14 December 1961) is a French rock climber and competition climber.

Climbing history

Tribout started climbing at age seven in Fontainebleau, France with his grandfather, a mountaineer, and also joined the youth section of the French Alpine Club. There he met other young climbers such as Catherine Destivelle. In 1982, he climbed his first 8a (5.13b)-graded sport climbing route, Fritz the Cat, at Saussois, and in 1985 climbed his first 8b (5.13d)-graded route, Les braves gens, in the Verdon Gorge.

Between 1986 and 1998, he participated in international competition climbing events, finishing third twice and fourth twice in the final standings of the World Cup. In 2008, aged 47, twelve years after he had last climbed an 8c (5.14b)-graded climb, he climbed two 8c routes.

Competition Record

World Cup

1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996
4	?	4	3	16	3	6	19

World Championship

1991	1993	1995	1997
35	32	-	4

European Championship

1992	1996
17	16

Rock Master

1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992
3	?	2	2	?	9

Notable Ascents

This ascent is the subject of controversy as Tribout sent it after American climber Alan Watts had bolted it. Climber Tommy Caldwell later recounted this controversy in his book, The Push. Furthermore, Tribout's use of a chisel to create better holds inflamed local climbing ethics at the time and to this day.^[2]

8c+/5.14c

The Connexion - Orgon - 1994 - First ascent (combination of Macumba Club and The Bronx)
Superplafond - Volx - 1994 - First ascent (combination of the Maginot Line, called by the French Le plafond, and Terminator)
Just do it - Smith Rock - 1992 - First ascent

8c/5.14b

Intime étrangère - Tournoux - August 4, 2008
Guerre d'usure - Claret - 24 February 2008 - aged 47^[3]
Macumba Club - Orgon - 1992 - First ascent
Huevos Rancheros - Gache - 1991 - First ascent
Maginot Line - Volx - 1990 - after Ben Moon in 1989

8b+/5.14a

Les intermutants du spectacle - St Leger - May 16, 2009
Deux cones - Orgon - August 9, 2008
Rollito Sharma - Santa Linya - April 19, 2008
Draconian Devil - Kalymnos - 2006^[4]
I am a bad man - Smith Rock - 1991
Cannibal - American Forks - 1990
Cry Freedom - Malham Cove - 1989 - Second ascent
Magie Noire - Traverses - 1989
Masse Critique - Cimaï - 1989 - First ascent
Revanche - Saussois - 1988 - First ascent
White wedding - Smith Rock - 1988 - First ascent
La rage de vivre - Buoux - 1987 - Second ascent
Le Spectre du surmutant - Buoux - 1987 - First ascent
Les spécialistes - Verdon Gorge - 1987 - First ascent
To Bolt or not to be - Smith Rock - 1986 - First ascent and first 5.14 in the United States

References

↑ "Siegrist Completes Just Do It (5.14c) at Smith". climbing.com. 2012. Retrieved 2 February 2013.
↑ Caldwell, Tommy (2017). The Push. New York: Penguin. ISBN 978-0-399-56270-9.
↑ "8a.nu - Article". 8a.nu. 2013. Retrieved 2 February 2013.
↑ "Sharma and Tribout Kalymnos Odyssey". planetmountain.com. 22 May 2006. Retrieved 2 February 2013.

External links

[1] "Siegrist Completes Just Do It (5.14c) at Smith". climbing.com. 2012. Retrieved 2 February 2013.

[2] Caldwell, Tommy (2017). The Push. New York: Penguin. ISBN 978-0-399-56270-9.

[3] "8a.nu - Article". 8a.nu. 2013. Retrieved 2 February 2013.

[4] "Sharma and Tribout Kalymnos Odyssey". planetmountain.com. 22 May 2006. Retrieved 2 February 2013.

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