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Also known as the cover model on the 2010 Kalymnos guidebook, Greek climber Thanassis Sotiropoulos is one of the top in the country. He comes from Patras, a city on the northern coast of the Peloponnese peninsula in mainland Greece, where some of the hardest climbs in Greece are to be found. But you’ll be hard pressed to find the soft-spoken climber anywhere near his hometown these days. Having spent the last year and a half traveling and climbing around the world, he spent the final months of 2011 in Kalymnos ticking off an assortment of the island’s 8a-8b classics . We caught up with him a few weeks ago and asked him to share his thoughts. Here’s more about Thanassis.