Free climbing at the Jaraguá quarry returns – 02/22/2024 – É Logo Ali
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When Eliana Maria Pereira, 33, and Gabriel Santos Lopes, 29, arrived at the foot of the open road for the first free climbing experience of the year in the Jaraguá neighborhood, in the north zone of São Paulo, where they had met at the end of the Last year, she thought it would be another morning of training and leisure alongside the teams of volunteers brought together by Alexandre Gazinhato, known as the Frenchman, and the social project CAB (Clube Alpino Brasileiro). But she didn’t imagine that, upon reaching the top of the climb, she would be asked to be her girlfriend (yes, that still exists!) in front of a large group that, from below, filmed and photographed each of her steps up the rock. At the kiss that apparently sealed the girl’s yes, the audience equipped with helmets, seats, ropes and a bit of mud from the recent rains applauded effusively. Love is beautiful, be serious.
While the little couple went down with their rings and huge smiles on their faces, Rosilene Martins da Silva, 52, waited for her turn to face the climb. “I’ve always been hiking, I like being outdoors”, she said, who knew French from the old location in the Morumbi neighborhood, from where the group was expelled due to pressure from residents who didn’t like the idea of having a social project ostensibly occupying the little square next to the upper middle class condominiums.
“I started doing the experiences and realized that I wasn’t afraid, but an enormous sense of freedom”, defines the biomedical doctor. “Climbing is an activity that seems easy, but is difficult, it affects the body a lot, but especially the mind”, she added.
Anxiously waiting in line waiting for his turn to climb the routes laid out by volunteers along approximately 20 meters of the rock, Artur de Moura Lima, 10, was one of the fastest to climb to the top and celebrated the feat upon descending. “I already climbed some indoor walls, a couple of years ago, but this time I was a little scared when I got halfway there”, confesses the boy, with a smile from ear to ear. “I managed to climb everything, but then I realized that coming back was even more difficult, it’s much worse”, he says, recognizing one of the great truths of the sport: going down is always more complicated for an already tired body. Welcome to the club, Arthur!
Endless demand
For the creator of the project since the days of Pedra do Francês, in Morumbi, the formal resumption of activities at the new address was surrounded, mainly, by a lot of anxiety. “The big difference in our space is that among the people who are there doing the experience and learning the procedures, it seems that the climbing bug ends up biting them and so they become more passionate”, he says.
Francês says that, on Saturday (18), there were 54 participants who ventured onto the ropes, aged mainly between 35 and 40 years old. But he wants to go further. “We want to reach the neediest population, but for that we still need some sponsorship or agreement, we are already working towards this”, he explains, adding that “the demand is endless, as there is practically no other way of proving climbing without paying, we are the only ones to organize this, and we want to expand the scope of our activity to fulfill the mission of building mountain culture in Brazil”.
Francês’ example, in practice, begins at home, where little Bento, aged 10 months, risked imitating adults by taking his first steps in the grip of an indoor wall in the video that went viral among climbing groups and which we reproduce here. Does anyone doubt that another serious mountaineer is coming?
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