Pole vault is daunting and strange. Vaulters liken the experience to being fired from a catapult. You cannot plant the pole without the commitment to life or death.
The originator of the sport, according to Ovid, was Nestor, one of the Argonauts, who came up with the idea while being charged by the Calydonian boar.
In 2017, a French artist named Pierre Larauza found himself drawn to a series of photographs of a pole vaulter, taken by Étienne-Jules Marey, a nineteenth-century physiologist and inventor.
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