Arthur refuses to choose between the climbing rope that enables him to scale the peaks and the strings of his cello. The 22-year-old has two passions: climbing, which he has been doing for 10 years, and the cello, which he has been playing for 20 years.
In early May, he decided to combine the two in an ambitious adventure he called “À travers les cordes” (“Through the Strings”). He climbed to the summit of Digital Crack (Haute-Savoie), at an altitude of 12,140 feet, to play Bach's first cello prelude.
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A moment of lightness suspended between sky and rock, where each note seems to resonate into infinity. Up there, in the rarefied air of the heights, the sounds of the cello mingle with the breath of the wind, like a prayer addressed to nature.
In this grandiose, geological and silent setting, the music becomes a hymn to Creation, a vibrant praise to the majesty of the world. The friction of the bow on the strings echoes that of the climbing rope on the granite: two forms of elevation, two paths to beauty.
