EDLINGER EST MORT

[G-spotter]

RIP le blond

 

You crushed it. Even the gods knew you were the best at Snowbird.

[wayne]

He was so inspirational to my generation, got me stoked to raise my game for sure.

[Pete_H]

Bummer. How did he get morted?

[matt_warfield]

No cause of death reported. But he was an icon for us oldsters.

[glassgowkiss]

Most definitely sad news, two of my early climbing heroes dead: first Wolfgang and now Patrick.

[ScaredSilly]

If you can read French:

 

http://www.ledauphine.com/france-monde/2012/11/16/escalade-patrick-edlinger-est-mort

 

Bummer I watched him at Snowturd all those years ago. Amazing climber.

[ivan]

for every one of us living in this world

means waiting for our end

let he who can achieve glory before death

when a warrior is gone that will be his

best and only bulwark

[Buckaroo]

bablefish translation

 

We learned this Friday night the death today of Patrick Edlinger at the age of 52, who was found without life at his home in La Palud, in the Verdon. Thirty years ago, his film "The life at your fingertips" had done return the escalation, and particularly his solo full in the gorges of the Verdon, in the history of the mountain. It was to participate in the meetings of the cinema of Grenoble next Thursday. The causes of his death are not yet known.

[Alan Trick]

The article also mentions an interview he did with them earlier that week where he mentioned his love of climbing and quote him saying that he regrets nothing from his life. Then it goes into speculation about his alcohol problems.

 

It probably wasn't a climbing accident.