Chloé Graftiaux

Chloé Graftiaux was a Belgian competition climber and alpinist, born in Brussels on 18 July 1987. In the 2010 season of the IFSC Bouldering World Cup she won gold at the events in Vail and Sheffield and finished third overall, and she was also a multiple lead climbing champion who had redpointed 8b and climbed boulder problems up to 7C. She was a capable alpinist too, climbing mixed ground to M11 and ice to WI6, and she won the Ice Master World Cup ice climbing competition in Valle di Daone in January 2010. She died on 21 August 2010, aged 23, in a fall on the Aiguille Noire de Peuterey in the Mont Blanc massif. A foundation created in 2011 gives scholarships to young climbers in her name.