Jean-Marie Choffat
Biography
Born in 1956 in Belfort, Jean-Marie Choffat is a French mountaineer. "I started the mountain at the age of 14 and fell ill at the age of 33. When I learned that I had a very rare cancer - at the beginning the doctors gave me a three-month expectation of life – I thought about everything I had been through in the mountains, especially the difficult situations. So I fought with my favorite weapon: passion. I continued to climb and live as usual knowing although all life has an end. Of course, nothing was easy, but nothing is ever simple. I only had a handful of friends who still agreed to go to the mountains with me, among them: Yannick Lord and Pascal Laheurte. It's a lot thanks to their friendship that I didn't let go of the ramp." He has climbed many of the great routes of modern mountaineering and his race diary includes more than 1,200 ascents, including many "firsts" - new, solitary or winter routes - in various Alpine or extra-European massifs. He also participated in the filmi...
