Didier Berthod

Didier Berthod, born in 1981, is a Swiss rock climber and priest who specialises in traditional climbing and crack climbing in particular. He came to international prominence in 2003 when he pinkpointed the unfinished sport route Greenspit (8b+) in the Orco Valley in Italy as a traditional climb, and in 2005 returned to do it without pre-placed protection. He put up new traditional routes in Indian Creek, Utah, and was followed by the 2006 film First Ascent in his unsuccessful attempt on Cobra Crack in Squamish. He then left climbing, joined the Eucharistein fraternity in Saint-Maurice and was ordained a priest in 2016, and shortly afterward began climbing again. In 2023 he made the first pinkpoint of The Crack of Destiny in Squamish, and in 2024 the twentieth ascent of Cobra Crack.