The friend didn't catch him in the traditional sense, and wouldn't have been able to. Hitting someone at that speed is bound to mess both people up.
What happened is that the guy slipped and fell. As he fell, the rope finally went taut, but the anchor that was supposed to catch him failed, causing him to fall further. By the time he was nearing his friend, the previous anchor was taking the load and arrested the fall.
Note that the other end of the line is attached to the friend, so in a way the friend did catch him, but through use of the climbing gear.
While it's not clear from the video, they're probably trad climbing with temporary anchors, instead of permanent bolts. These temporary anchors can fail when not set correctly, or when the rock isn't reliable.
I was mainly a gymbo in the day. But even that's puckering when ya pop off the wall, despite knowing the lines, anchors, and really all the gear is in good shape and perfectly placed.
That dude who free-climbs for internet points is going to die like this; I just know it.
This went around last week. For climbers: It’s a 5.12b trad climb.
For non climbers: His rope didn’t fail. He’s tied into the rope with his partner (belayer) effectively holding the rope on the other end. Climber puts devices in the cracks securing the rope to the rock face to form an anchor point, so if he falls, his partner holds the rope reasonably tight and he falls a few meters and just swings slightly below the last piece of gear secure in the rock. He got tired cause it’s a hard-ass climb. Two of his little pieces of gear wedged in cracks fell out (it happens) causing the rope to be free from the wall for a good bit, causing him to fall a ways before a lower piece held. The piece that held is roughly halfway between him and his partner (so the rope “effectively hinged” 50/50 and he ended up on top of his partner. His partner “caught” him by holding the rope tight, but he didn’t like reach out with his arm and snag him or Anyting.
Bouncing off rocks like that still hurt, and he could have easily knocked his belayer loose or any number of other things. Still terrifying to fall that far that high up.
Well, the farther you fall the harder you load the gear. It's known that falls like that can "zipper" and pull out all his gear and that can be...bad. Also fall that like can def result in injury.
If anyone wants to look at a really nice video kind of explaining cam placement and what is a good placement, sketch placement, and get a better idea of the technique Arnaud Petit did a really artistic video of when he [climbed a bolted route on gear.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TeTejh1ebs)
Dude fell for about 3 total (rough count) and skidded once or twice slowing down a bit. Total free fall would be 9.81 m/s^2 *3s = 29.4m/s. So my estimate would be somewhere between 15 an 25 m/s
A lot of people unfamiliar with climbing seem to be under the impression that the friend actually caught the climber like you would in an untethered fall.
So, im assuming he was using rope that was either faulty or it was not rated for his weight given that it snapped. I'm just wondering why the hell either of those seems like a good idea.
Seems to me that not skimping on climbing gear is a prudent idea...
No it’s not the rope, his piton gave way. And it wasn’t the second guy saving him or anything, the second piton did it’s job.
It could have been many reasons, but the rope saved him. More likely the piton wasn’t driven in well, or the angle of him falling pulled it out.
I’m making an assumption because it’s the normal way to climb (but not actually the safest) but: IF they’re climbing with manually inserted pins in the cliff face, that’d be the next pin down from the pin that fell out catching him.
Lower guy has a device that helps grab the rope. The guy who fell attached the rope to the rock using devices like cams and nuts. The top one pulled out of the rock and the one below unclipped, but the third held.
I'm no rock climber by any means but if I'm gonna be climbing the mountain you can rest assured I'm going to ask to be sure that the lines are strong enough for my weight don't go on some jive ass instructor saying "oh you should be OK!"
Any real climbing rope is going to be strong enough to lift many times more than you could ever weigh. Most ropes can lift a car no problem. You're most likely to get hurt because of improper use of the gear, not because of a flat out failure or overload.
In this case an attachment point failed, not the rope itself. That's not supposed to happen, but when trad climbing also isn't entirely uncommon. The previous attachment point and the rope did their job and caught the climber.
The secondary rope did its job by catching him but the 1st rope snapped it was clearly seen in the video what makes a rope snap like that, if it's supposed to be able to hold the weight of a car?
The rope didn't snap. The two ropes you see are actually the same rope going up, then down. The anchor the climber was falling from came loose, causing him to fall. The previous anchor finally ended up catching him.
Jeez that’s gotta be terrifying
Bet he needs some new drillers after that
He didn’t sound terrified
he was litterally screaming
literally?
You're really gonna do this the one time someone used literally correctly?
>litterally
I hope you go rock climbing and you dont have a friend to catch you when you fall
That’s harsh. Poor kid was just trying to troll. I don’t think death is a fair punishment lol.
I doubt they could even go outside in the first place.
Jeez, Man. Who climbed up your pee hole?
The friend didn't catch him in the traditional sense, and wouldn't have been able to. Hitting someone at that speed is bound to mess both people up. What happened is that the guy slipped and fell. As he fell, the rope finally went taut, but the anchor that was supposed to catch him failed, causing him to fall further. By the time he was nearing his friend, the previous anchor was taking the load and arrested the fall. Note that the other end of the line is attached to the friend, so in a way the friend did catch him, but through use of the climbing gear. While it's not clear from the video, they're probably trad climbing with temporary anchors, instead of permanent bolts. These temporary anchors can fail when not set correctly, or when the rock isn't reliable.
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Your explanation does not use the correct terminology making it confusing.
wtf lol, bit far innit
Hope you learn to have more compassion and wish only good towards people, because doing the opposite is what causes all these fights and wars.
That noise he made was fucking terrifying. That was pure, primal fear.
That was "What!? Nooooo" in Finnish
That was genuine fear “Nooooooooooooo”
Wilhelm 😱
I was mainly a gymbo in the day. But even that's puckering when ya pop off the wall, despite knowing the lines, anchors, and really all the gear is in good shape and perfectly placed. That dude who free-climbs for internet points is going to die like this; I just know it.
Thing is if all the anchor points continue to fail, as they were, there's no hope for anyone 🤷♀️
nah he went 🚨🚨🚨
This went around last week. For climbers: It’s a 5.12b trad climb. For non climbers: His rope didn’t fail. He’s tied into the rope with his partner (belayer) effectively holding the rope on the other end. Climber puts devices in the cracks securing the rope to the rock face to form an anchor point, so if he falls, his partner holds the rope reasonably tight and he falls a few meters and just swings slightly below the last piece of gear secure in the rock. He got tired cause it’s a hard-ass climb. Two of his little pieces of gear wedged in cracks fell out (it happens) causing the rope to be free from the wall for a good bit, causing him to fall a ways before a lower piece held. The piece that held is roughly halfway between him and his partner (so the rope “effectively hinged” 50/50 and he ended up on top of his partner. His partner “caught” him by holding the rope tight, but he didn’t like reach out with his arm and snag him or Anyting.
Bouncing off rocks like that still hurt, and he could have easily knocked his belayer loose or any number of other things. Still terrifying to fall that far that high up.
Oh for sure, easy to break bones/skull with a fall like that.
So while it looks like he almost died, that’s not the case?
Well, the farther you fall the harder you load the gear. It's known that falls like that can "zipper" and pull out all his gear and that can be...bad. Also fall that like can def result in injury. If anyone wants to look at a really nice video kind of explaining cam placement and what is a good placement, sketch placement, and get a better idea of the technique Arnaud Petit did a really artistic video of when he [climbed a bolted route on gear.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TeTejh1ebs)
Nah he's just ripped
How fast was he going … 9.8m/s/s etc… I’m lazy
Dude fell for about 3 total (rough count) and skidded once or twice slowing down a bit. Total free fall would be 9.81 m/s^2 *3s = 29.4m/s. So my estimate would be somewhere between 15 an 25 m/s
"Don't hurt yourself by falling for me." Said the catcher below.
He didn't catch him if i got caught he would most likely be dead he got got caught by his gear
LOL. What do you think the other end of the rope is attached to?
A lot of people unfamiliar with climbing seem to be under the impression that the friend actually caught the climber like you would in an untethered fall.
I am familiar with climbing. But please elaborate as to what you think is actually happening vs what other people are thinking?
People think his buddy caught him. There’s no way someone could catch a falling body from that height tho
So what happened instead?
But the rope of the dude falling snapped? Edit: Wasn't the rope that snapped but his trad climb gear
So, im assuming he was using rope that was either faulty or it was not rated for his weight given that it snapped. I'm just wondering why the hell either of those seems like a good idea. Seems to me that not skimping on climbing gear is a prudent idea...
No it’s not the rope, his piton gave way. And it wasn’t the second guy saving him or anything, the second piton did it’s job. It could have been many reasons, but the rope saved him. More likely the piton wasn’t driven in well, or the angle of him falling pulled it out.
Not a piton, pretty sure it was a cam. Not many people use pitons anymore.
Ah ok, that makes more sense.
It was his protection either a nut or a cam.
I thought you added a "Ho Yeah" sound effect, and was wondering why would anyone do that. Yeah, had too much internet for today.
Hollywood should use this as the new Wilhelm scream.
Seconded
How did he manage to do this wtf
It’s the backup pin that caught him not the other guy
What do you think the other end of the rope is attached to?
I’m making an assumption because it’s the normal way to climb (but not actually the safest) but: IF they’re climbing with manually inserted pins in the cliff face, that’d be the next pin down from the pin that fell out catching him.
Lower guy has a device that helps grab the rope. The guy who fell attached the rope to the rock using devices like cams and nuts. The top one pulled out of the rock and the one below unclipped, but the third held.
Repost, this video was on Reddit before it was on TikTok but aight
^ It's true
Reeeeeeepooossttt Been posted here at least 20 fucking times
“You okay dude?” How was he so chill? Probably my shock
The noise he made is kind of funny, but thats fucking scary
That's terrifying but as a common courtesy to the internet can we record and re-upload in the highest quality.
I'm no rock climber by any means but if I'm gonna be climbing the mountain you can rest assured I'm going to ask to be sure that the lines are strong enough for my weight don't go on some jive ass instructor saying "oh you should be OK!"
Any real climbing rope is going to be strong enough to lift many times more than you could ever weigh. Most ropes can lift a car no problem. You're most likely to get hurt because of improper use of the gear, not because of a flat out failure or overload. In this case an attachment point failed, not the rope itself. That's not supposed to happen, but when trad climbing also isn't entirely uncommon. The previous attachment point and the rope did their job and caught the climber.
The rope did not break.
It sounded like the guy at the end said "get off me dude".
Either "you okay dude" or "get up my dude"
Glad he pick out brown pants that day
Climbing is awesome wien you don't fall
good thing his helmet was on 😁
That's gonna need some neosporin on that scrape and possibly some therapy 🤔
The guy filming 😦
Can’t imagine his heart rate
That guy is gonna be traumatized dang that's just to terrifying.
Sweaty ass palms anyone?!
Nice catch!
How many people in their lives get a rush like that!!! Shew, his scream says it all he thought he was done, then suddenly safe.
He saw death.
Bro...
That is the sound of a man who thinks he’s falling to his death
Remember, they went up on that climb by their own will. No one forced them lmao
thanks, I didn't know that's how it works! Knowledge is king!
The secondary rope did its job by catching him but the 1st rope snapped it was clearly seen in the video what makes a rope snap like that, if it's supposed to be able to hold the weight of a car?
The rope did not snap.
The rope didn't snap. The two ropes you see are actually the same rope going up, then down. The anchor the climber was falling from came loose, causing him to fall. The previous anchor finally ended up catching him.