Skip to main content
Go back

John Brett on “La Valse,” circa 1960

Vintage photo of a climber hanging onto a rock face with hands and feet, against a background of sky and treetops.

Source:

Claude Lavallée collection.

John Brett on “La Valse” in the Chico sector of Mont Césaire. “La Valse” was the first route that Brett climbed in Val-David, in 1932. He named it this way because he thought the movements that the route demanded of the climber resembled a waltz.