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France · FranceLéo Billon and Enzo Oddo have made the first free ascent of Voie Lafaille on the west face of the Drus in the Alps. It now goes free at 5.14. The first ascent was done solo and in winter by Jean-Christophe Lafaille in February 2001. Lafaille called it “the most beautiful and hardest route I’ve ever climbed in the Alps!” He also said it was, at the time, the hardest rock climb in the region. Billon and Oddo bivied twice during their free push of …See the Story