Fontainebleau

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Situation:  About 50 km south-east of Paris.
Climate:    Sometimes snow in winter, but often good conditions.
Rock:        Sandstone.
Topo:        Different books in French and English.

Boulder
Some dozen areas, each with a huge amount of problems in all grades.

Fontainebleau is one of the origin areas of bouldering and with many thousand problems the worlds biggest bouldering area up to date.

 

Internet

http://bleau.info

 

Some first ascents and pictures from the last years here.

 

Videos

The Climb On!® Team in Fontainebleau (December 2008) [4,4 MB] (Climber: Manuel Oberfrank, Harald Röker)

 

Fontainebleau - Foręt magique (March 2010) [14 MB] (Climber: Philipp Schrott [Coquille], Harald Röker [rest])