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Chief
climber
The NW edge of The Hudson Bay
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Mar 13, 2018 - 11:14pm PT
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Yes.
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Hoser
climber
Vancouver,Rome
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Mar 13, 2018 - 11:37pm PT
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RIP bro - thanks for the good times!
Marc’s dad sends the message below -
https://www.gofundme.com/592fn8w
To all of our friends near and far who have been supporting us and praying for Marc André I wanted you all to hear it from me first hand before it’s in the news. Sadly we have lost 2 really great climber and I lost a son I am very proud of. Thank you for the support during this difficult time. My heart is so broken...Part of me is gone with him...
Our family appreciates all of your prayers and we would like to ask for a time of privacy as we come to grip with these devastating developments... Marc-André was an amazing, loving man and he has touched many lives in so many ways. He will be remembered and loved forever. I know he is with our Lord and I will be with him again one day. ❤️”
All support for this page will now go to the family to manage and deal with the multitude of items they now have in front of them. As well as much needed respite.
Thank you to everyone for all your messages and contribution. Our community is strong and we will get though this as a loving community.
https://www.gofundme.com/592fn8w
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Hoser
climber
Vancouver,Rome
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Mar 14, 2018 - 06:07am PT
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Nice article on gripped. He mentions the first time Marc attempted the Grand Wall..Marc was always pushing...and he didnt just want to climb the GW...he wanted to link cruel shoes and the upper black dyke...
I, being somewhat normal said...lets keep this somewhat realistic...but he won, he always won...so I said ill lead cruel shoes you take the GW. He brought along a highschool friend and everyone was just knackered after cruel shoes and we bailed...
I had a lot of fun climbing with Marc back in those days, a couple summers later I was just following along in awe and enjoyed reminding him about bailing on the split pillar :)
https://gripped.com/news/canadian-marc-andre-leclerc-has-passed-away-at-24/
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Mar 14, 2018 - 06:47am PT
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hey there, say, dear families... i am so very sad to hear to this awful news...
prayers, love, and condolences, at this sad time of moving forward,
without your loved ones... :(
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Mar 14, 2018 - 06:52am PT
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So sorry for your loss.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Mar 14, 2018 - 06:59am PT
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hey there say, treez... is that ryan, with the fire engine, ?
i saw you posted that, ... please, let me know, when you can...
thank you so much...
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Mar 14, 2018 - 07:29am PT
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I cried this morning. Heck I'm still fvcking crying. I'm cryinf for Ryan and Marc, and their families. I'm crying for Brette, Kieran and Luke, and the rest of Marc's friends.
But mostly I'm crying for Marc. He was my friend. Yeah we weren't as close as some of his other friends, but he always was interested in me and what i was doing. Even though he knew I awaited with baited breath for his latest epic tale, he would enquire about my latest climbs and was always stoked on my progress.
Marc was such a humble, nice, energetic guy. I will always remember hanging at the bluffs, and in the boulders at camp four with him at Brette, just shooting the sh#t while we burned the grass away...
I will miss him terribly. This is fortunatly the first friend I have ever lost to the grim reaper, and i'm preparing myself that it won't be the last.
Godspeed Marc and Ryan. I hope you find lots of peaks to send in heaven..
FVCK.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Mar 14, 2018 - 07:44am PT
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I cried this morning.
I think we're all crying Mike. Whether we knew him personally, or only through the light he shone into the world of climbing, we will all find it a little darker now.
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Rick A
climber
Boulder, Colorado
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Mar 14, 2018 - 07:45am PT
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What a terrible loss. My heart goes out to the family and friends of these two men.
Brandon Pullan's article in Gripped, linked above, is an excellent chronicle of Leclerc's unbelievable climbing career. I had heard about his solo of the Emperor Face, but he seemed to be able to do that sort of thing regularly.
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Bad Climber
Trad climber
The Lawless Border Regions
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Mar 14, 2018 - 07:53am PT
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What an astonishing person--more flame thrower than human. That Gripped article reads like a climbing super hero story. Just staggering. I would like to know more about Johnson, too. This is a huge, sad loss. Condolences to all their friends and family.
BAd
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Mar 14, 2018 - 08:07am PT
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Every morning I would check this thread, thinking, please let there be good news, please.
I am so sorry.
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micronut
Trad climber
Fresno/Clovis, ca
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Mar 14, 2018 - 08:20am PT
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My deepest condolences to those who knew him well and to the tribe in general. What a sad day. Many of us have followed this story since it first broke, hoping for good news, but alas, just sorrow now. May the fond memories that remain sustain those who knew them both in the years to come.
Scott
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Mar 14, 2018 - 08:44am PT
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Sorry for your loss, treez; yours and everyone's.
A day at a time.
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Mar 14, 2018 - 08:56am PT
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I'm sitting here reading this unfold and I can only think what a close community you all have in Squamish and the pain you must feel. Mike, Luke, Kieran and others, my heartfelt condolences for the loss of two very bright lights. Words are such a small consolation.
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Mar 14, 2018 - 08:56am PT
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F*#k Alpinism. Don’t go.
NO. Marc shone bright and I would never take away from his luster. To do any less would have done him a disservice. He was happy, living his life to the fullest and I would never ask him to change a second of it.
Edit: Thanks Dave, Greg and Wayne. I'm sorry i didn't aknowledge you sooner. I'm so fvck8ng sad today.
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madbolter1
Big Wall climber
Denver, CO
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Mar 14, 2018 - 08:57am PT
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Every morning I would check this thread, thinking, please let there be good news, please.
I am so sorry.
This sums it up for me. I didn't know them, but I am so sorry for what their families and close friends are going through.
Peace and love to the grieving.
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Mar 14, 2018 - 09:12am PT
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All good Treez. We are all.hurting today.
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10b4me
Social climber
Lida Junction
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Mar 14, 2018 - 09:40am PT
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F*#k Alpinism. Don’t go.
one has to ask themselves if it's worth the risk(been there, done that)especially if there are family responsibilities.
Condolences to the family, and friends.
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TheSoloClimber
Trad climber
Vancouver
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Mar 14, 2018 - 09:51am PT
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I still can’t believe that that’s just it. Like it didn’t seem possible a week ago and it just seems unrealistic now. Marc was supposed to be untouchable.
The first time I met him was a buildering meetup at UBC. It was before he had really started doing any big alpine things or solos, but after he had climbed some of the hard Squamish testpieces. I knew he was a hardman, but at that time he was relatively unknown outside Squamish. He crushed all the buildering problems.
This was also just after finishing up my first year climbing. I didn’t really know anyone in the community yet, and had no one to share my stoke with. One evening, either late fall or early spring, he invited me over to hang out with him and his friend in North Van. I hadn’t really been to the Shore before, but transitted over. We talked about climbing over a couple beers. Marc was the first person I met who had the same passion I felt, and it was awesome to be able to talk the ear off someone without them getting tired of hearing the same thing haha.
We shared the bus back downtown together, and came up with the wacky, slightly buzzed idea of climbing on top of Science World around two in the morning. We snuck around the odd security guard and managed to get up to where the sphere starts, only to find it was much bigger and more intense than it looked from the ground, so we bailed.
I think it was the year after that his climbing career really started to take off. That was when he did Slesse twice in a day. I didn’t really hang out with him much one on one, and I never got to climb with him, but he always was quick to greet me with a high five and a smile. At the grand opening for the gym in Squamish, I ditched my girlfriend briefly so I could chat with Marc about Slesse. I had tried to onsight solo it myself a couple months earlier. I didn’t summit, but I learned a lot and posted a TR about it here. Marc had read it. It meant a lot to me that he had taken the time to read something I wrote about something that he knew infinitely more about than me.
We weren’t close, but I’m going to miss him.
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