Pierre Szekely

During the Holocaust, Pierre Szekely was interned in a Nazi concentration camp. In 1946, he escaped to France where he became a respected sculptor and architect.^[1][2]

In 1975,^[3] Szekely completed La Dame du Lac, which is an iconic climbing wall in the suburbs of Paris.^[4] The Dame du Lac is considered to have played an instrumental role in the development of Parkour by David Belle,^[5] made famous by early montages such as Speed Air Man (1997).