Like all good Genevans, Michel Piola discovered climbing at the Salève, the great training cliff outside Geneva. Thirty years of route-setting later, he stands among the finest new-routers the sport has known, his lines beloved by climbers the world over. A Passion for New Routing is both a biography and a chance to watch him at work bolting routes from local crags to Patagonia, Greenland, and Pakistan. Why This Film Matters: Every climber who ties in follows a line someone imagined first. This film honors the quiet, creative craft of the route-setter, the person who reads blank rock and draws a path up it, and in doing so shapes what the sport can even attempt.