Alizée Dufraisse

Name: Alizée Dufraisse
Nickname: Lili
Job: Professional climber - researcher
Year of birth: 1987
Climbing since: 1996
Country: France

What do you enjoy about climbing?
Since the first moment on the wall I loved the connexion with the nature and the rocks. I enjoyed the way of moving and finding combinations of moves in outdoor routes. Climbing places offer such a connexion and necessity to be totally focused, and I also liked this deep connexion.

How did you start with climbing?
My father started climbing when I was 7 years old and so I was going outdoors with him and families of friends of his. I loved playing first with other children, finding animals, etc. Then I started to climb sometimes and more and more.

Other interests?
I love music, researching things in general, travelling and feeling free in the nature.

Favourite climbing area?
All the areas are unique in a way but I enjoy being in Siurana a lot, Rocklands, Ticino, Ceüse and Bishop

The best achievements?
Routes:
9a La reina Mora, Siurana, Spain, first female ascent
9a Estado Critico, Siurana, Spain, first and only female ascent
9a La Proa fin de Ali, Rodellar, Spain, first and only female ascent
8c+/9a Fin de Ali Hulk Extension total, Rodellar, Spain, first and only female ascent
8c+ Chikane, Siurana, Spain, first female ascent
8c+ El Rastro, Siurana, Spain, first female ascent
8c+ Patinoso, Siurana, Spain, first female ascent
8c+ Coma san Pere, Margalef, Spain, first female ascent
8c+ Fin de Ali hulk, Rodellar, Spain

Boulders:
8B/+ Heritagen, Val Bavona, Switzerland
8B Kingda Ka, GottardoPass, Switzerland
8B Versace, Brione, Switzerland
8B Ray of light, Rocklands, South Africa
8B Wheel of retardation, Rocklands, South Africa, first and only female ascent
8B Meadowlark lemon stand, Red Rocks, USA
8B L’arche, Rocklands, USA
8A+/B Fragiles steps, Rocklands, South Africa

Competitions:
Youth World Champion 2003
3rd European Championship Lead Climbing 2010
3rd Lead Climbin World Cup Imst 2009
Winner Arco Boulder Event 2009
2nd Arco boulder Event 2003
15 years in the French Climbing Team

The most impressive climbing experience?
Always trying to find new challenges to surpass myself, especially in routes and boulders that has not been previously done by women.

Plans for the future?
I plan to keep doing what I have been doing with more knowledge about it. I am finishing my PHD in sociology, accumulating information, at different levels, about how climbing is evolving in this constant period of transformations of the sport. I want to regroup all the knowledge I have accumulated in order to bring valuable influence in the community, taking into consideration different variables. I would like for example help people (especially women) to open themselves to multiple possibilities they have, breaking free of the limitations our social environment led us to create in the past.

Climbing in 100 years?
That’s a tricky question. Maybe more of a dissociation of two aspects of the sport: outdoor vs indoor?

More info about me:
IG: @alizee_dufraisse