The “Noé project” is a sporting and united challenge over 2021-2022, that of a 30-year-old volunteer firefighter athlete from the Orléans region (45) Joris Jacquard. He decided to climb the equivalent of Mount Everest (in other words 8,849 m of positive and negative elevation) at each of its stages… but on stairs, in all regions of France. His goal of 14 “Everest Runs” started in Orléans, then Auch, the Tour Montparnasse, Vesoul in October and he joined Brest on Saturday November 6, in the stairs of Cours Dajot.
Joris Jacquard had imagined doing this challenge in the Eckmühl lighthouse in Penmarc’h (29), it will finally be in Brest! At 7 am, the athlete will set off for a period of 12 to 14 hours to climb and descend 800 times the 80 steps of these 19th century stairs which lead from Cours Dajot to the port, also called “Gabin staircase”, immortalized in 1939 by the actor Jean Gabin who borrows them in the film “Remorques”.
These crazy challenges, Joris Jacquard realizes them under the colors of the Gustave Roussy Foundation for the campaign “Curing childhood cancer in the 21st century” launched in 2017 by Frédéric and Magali Lemos following the premature death of their little Noah at the age of 7 from cancer, to fund research in pediatric oncology.
You can support the challenge by accompanying Joris Jacquard over a few meters on November 6 in Brest (individuals, sports associations, firefighters …) and especially with your donations: in the ballot box on site, by the QR code on posters at Cours Dajot which will open an application on your smartphone , or finally online on the Helloasso page of the Gustave Roussy Foundation