Gil Bodin

Gilles Bodin · Жиль Боден · جيل بودين

Gil Bodin, born January 1, 1939, in Parçay-Meslay (Indre-et-Loire) and died October 7, 2019, in Bron, in the Lyon metropolitan area, was a French mountaineer and mountain guide. He was one of those mountain figures whose eloquence took us back to the epics of the 1960s. Originally from Indre-et-Loire, it was during his teenage years in Paris that Gil Bodin discovered the joys of vertical climbing, awakening on the boulders of Fontainebleau. A classic adventurer's journey that would lead him and his brother, Patrice, to the Chamonix Valley, where he earned his mountain guide diploma and pursue...