Climbing in Chironico

Chironico’s presence on the site centres on contemporary high‑end bouldering and the process of projecting the upper limits of the sport. The North Face film and Mellow’s feature both focus on Shawn Raboutou’s work on Alphane, presented in the source material as one of the world’s few V17s and described as a proposed 9a boulder in Switzerland. Those edits interleave Raboutou’s project work with attempts and ascents by a roster of elite boulderers — Matty Hong, Jimmy Webb, Daniel Woods, Felipe Camargo and Giuliano Cameroni — so you see both solo campaigns and the collaborative, problem‑solving atmosphere of a high‑level season.

The films emphasise projection: sequence‑reading, small adjustments on the rock, and the incremental changes that turn attempts into sends. Because Chironico sits in Ticino, the edits also function as records of Swiss high‑end bouldering standards, preserving attempts across a range of V14–V17 tests and showing how elite climbers approach some of the hardest problems in the region.