- Birthday
- 1947-01-01
- Place of Birth
- Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Jean-Claude Droyer
ActingBiography
Jean-Claude Droyer, born in 1947, is a climber and mountaineer, a mountain guide, and a former member of the Groupe de Haute Montagne (GHM). A pioneer of free climbing in France, he trained at the climbing schools of Fontainebleau and Saussois and distinguished himself in 1965 by solo climbing the Pentecôte route at Glandasse. Since 1974, he has been a spokesperson for free climbing and Anglo-Saxon ethics, attracting some enmity for his sometimes "forceful" methods (unscrewing routes without consultation). Upon returning from a trip (a meeting organized by the British Mounting Council in 197...
