I met the Pou brothers in the beginning of the year, climbing the sandstone walls of Canyon do Talhado between Sergipe and Alagoas states. Some months later the duo returned to Brazil to climb some of the best-known and most difficult routes of Rio de Janeiro. We photographed for two days, but the rainy weather did not help. The coolest part was watching the number of climbers who stopped to watch Iker Pou climbing a very hard and well-known boulder in the city, Southern Comfort, a.k.a. Via do Alemão [The German Guy’s Route], repeated by very few athletes today.
