Steph Bodet

Steph Bodet is a climber documented on film in both big‑wall and sport contexts, shown participating in a first free ascent and in organized route‑development events. The two films available here place her on opposite ends of contemporary hard climbing: an extended multi‑pitch project on granite in Madagascar and a compact record of mass bolting and elite sport climbing in China.

Tough Enough: Big Wall Climbing in Madagascar follows the team that made the first free ascent of a very hard multi‑pitch line in the Tsaranoro massif, and lists Stephanie Bodet among the climbers alongside Arnaud Petit and Sylvain Millet. At forty‑eight minutes the French‑language film details the pitch‑by‑pitch work required to free a long granite wall and shows the logistics of living beneath a big face. The footage is useful if you want to see how a small team manages hauling, route‑finding and the repeated effort that a single big‑wall project demands.

The short Petzl RocTrip China 2011 – The official movie captures a different side of Bodet’s on‑rock life: an event where hundreds of climbers and dozens of new sport pitches reshaped local limestone cliffs. The edit notes Bodet climbing Lost in Translation (8a+/5.13c) with Arnaud Petit, and mixes action with scenes of bolting and photography. Together the films show Bodet working both sustained multi‑pitch granite and hard single‑pitch limestone in event contexts; viewers will get contrast between methodical big‑wall progression and the concentrated intensity of top‑level sport route climbing.