After taking a break from climbing to become a monk, Didier Berthod was looking for a special crack to get him back into the sport.
Some climbers like the thrill of reaching the summit. But the crack in the wall of a sheer cliff face is Berthod’s specialty.
“Some people just love that type of climbing, and yeah, I’m one of them,” he recently told On the Coast host Gloria Macarenko.
“Every place I go, I’m just looking for small gems.”
Berthod recently got a lot of buzz in the climbing community for ascending what he has called the Crack of Destiny — a 20-metre-long fissure
