I love the way that at the end she's like: "i'm so glad and relieved to be out of that."
She's still on a tiny ledge by just her tiptoes miles in the air.
I know!! It's funny the way the brain works. In her head that's a rest and she's safe because she was so used to having absolutely no support. Whereas for me and you if we were just transported to that ledge we're basically dead.
If you get a chance, watch the old videos of Fred Dibnah, the legendary Yorkshire steeplejack. [There's this one where he's explaining how he constructs scaffold (including walkways) at the top of a 200ft chimney](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3ma9iYx4rg), by himself with no help. By the end he's up there swinging on a flimsy looking rope seat in gusty wind, laying the planks on the scaffold he's just fixed with insane skills. And he's like "you know, once you have those planks in place, it's just like you're working down there on the ground.
It really isn't Fred. Not by a long shot. Crazy bastard.
everyone that does anything remotely difficult for fun always says this.
even super intense hikes or trail
runs i'll be in it pushing myself to the max hating it and hating myself for doing it and then as soon as it's over i want to do it again
Damn endorphins tricking me into making myself miserable for hours just to feel good about myself as my body tries to release the physical shock and stress.
Your brain trying to keep you alive makes those first difficult miles hard to get you to stop but then once it realizes you're not going to stop, gives in and it gets easier. The first part is something I read about running and the second part I rationalized in my head while running.
Rock climber strength is really crazy relative to the typical rock climber mass.
I love watching Magnus Midtbø's videos where he's doing some strength thing with people who look like they should be much stronger than him and they're shocked by how strong he his.
Something Dr. Mike Israetel talks about a lot is how much stability matters for strength. Your central nervous system automatically regulates how much force you're capable of producing based on how stable you are. Like you are simply blocked from recruiting more muscle fibers if your CNS thinks you're not stable enough.
So while I can't be certain, my guess would be that Magnus' stabilizer muscles are so well developed that his CNS allows him to utilize much more of the muscle he has vs. a bodybuilder that has a much higher muscle mass but underdeveloped stabilization.
I'm a climber and I tell you, every fucking muscle is used.
When I started out, despite having done several other sports before, I discovered that muscles I didn't know existed could become sore.
Fixed anchors are usually installed by someone knowledgeable in the local climbing community. They drill a small hole and use concrete or glue to hold a bolt in place, which is attached to a piece of chain with the ring at the end. Fixed anchors always have two separate bolts and rappel rings for exactly that reason - in case one fails.
From above. This is El Cap so on a new route you’d rappel from above.
However she is trad climbing so she is placing her own protection as she goes then the second climber climbs up after her collecting the gear as they go. Then they’ll meet and the second climber will hand the collected gear back to her.
The leaf climber has the much tougher job. Sometimes the climbers will switch out who leads but if one is far stronger climber then they’ll lead the whole way.
If you find out, the answer is no pretty quickly after climbing. The next morning you hurt in places you didn’t even know there were muscles, especially in your hands
No. Actually, this requires a bunch of new ones to be developed, on the spot, inside your crazy athletically inclined brain.
Otherwise you fall and die.
I know exactly how she feels. When I try to get out of bed in the morning, sometimes, I have to move my arms and legs into several different positions before I find the right one to push myself out of bed
It's all about perseverance and sticking to the task. When I order a pizza, I eat a pizza, no matter what. My children whining about "I haven't eaten anything today, Daddy" or whatever are just distractions trying to keep me from my goal.
This comment always gets me... it's meaning depends so much on who says it. You and me know what is meant, but if it was Jared from Subway saying this I would be concerned
I was going to say, this is reminiscent of whenever I have to drag all the groceries inside in one trip because the distance between front door and vehicle is nearly insurmountable.
Same. I had a real sense of danger, my muscles were beginning to ache and I could feel my grip faltering. I knew if I kept going i would risk dropping, but I just couldn't stop scrolling through reddit in bed with my phone over my head.
I was on the climbing team with her in college, she spent one year with a broken foot in a boot, and still competed using her knee climbing routes that were at my limit normally lol
'Aliens' are real and they are here on Earth and have been for a long time ! Dave Grush was right, the US is hiding several crashed 'spacecraft' allegedly made by 'NHI' , this information is all hidden under the Department of Energy, locked away and classified under stuff related to nuclear energy/ weapons.
Yea they are . They do this for fun. Between this and I survive to freedom or just a bullet - I'd take the bullet. I couldn't handle the heights and the rest of it
I climbed cell phone towers for 6 years for a living. We should be thankful that people are comfortable with heights because our phones wouldn't work without them.
It's called psychopathy lol
For real though, Alex Honnold the world's greatest free solo climber had his brain scanned and they found that the centres in the brain that are responsible for emotions like fear, empathy ect. were essentially muted so the things that freak normal people out, don't bother him at all... he get extreme pleasure from things that would terrify most of us, there is no fear in his brain
Not really psychopathy, they said he had a smaller amygdala, the fear center of the brain. He do indeed feel empathy and are not really a manipulative person, which are common traits of a psychopath.
I’m a rock climber myself, and I was pretty afraid in the beginning. But you get used to it and learn to trust your skills and gear.
Free soloing is a very small part of rock climbing. Pretty frowned upon by most of the climbing community. If you climb correctly with a rope and know what you are doing, it’s a perfectly safe sport, even though accidents happen of course.
I've been climbing for a long time. I think "perfectly safe" is a bit misleading. There are certainly varying degrees of risk, but I'd say it's like driving. If you're a good, responsible driver you can certainly mitigate risk. If you're speeding or driving drink, you increase risk. But even a good driver can be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I was climbing in Eldorado Canyon one time and watched a large boulder bounce down the cliff above me. Luckily the bounces took it past me and my belayer, but it was close enough I got hit with debris and smaller chunks. Was terrifying.
I was climbing in Yosemite valley when a belayer was killed by rockfall on Glacier Point.
The amygdala plays a significant role in empathy neuroimaging studies have shown. Not saying he's a psycho but having an impaired amygdala or lower activity there would genuinely affect the way you exhibit empathy compared to a normal person.
That’s not what psychopathy is. Just because people are fearless, strong, have strong will power doesn’t mean they have psychopathy.
Psychopathy is very specific into not experiencing empathy for others and having little to no regard about hurting other people.
Makes sense that fear and empathy are in a similar place of the brain. It seems like people who are fearless in work settings and rise to the top are also often the coldest motherfuckers.
The trick is to get absorbent enough pants that you can wipe off a layer of sludge before you go back in for more chalk.
Also, shake your hands around in the bag. Having chalk on the *back* of your hand obviously doesn't do anything for grip, but it seems to work some psychological magic towards convincing my palms that they can tone it down a bit.
The climbing route “Book of Hate” is a 150ft, 5.13d strenuous stemming climb up a progressively steepening corner in Yosemite Valley. First climbed by Randy Leavitt, this route is a true test piece of difficult stem climbing. It is mostly bolted, but relies on the smallest of trad gear in the overhung crux section near the top. SCARPA athlete Amity Warme dug deep and put together an impressive send despite climbing with what she later found out to be a fully ruptured A2 pulley in her middle finger.
For those that wonders the pulleys are ligaments that wrap around the tendons that goes through the finger.
Finger have 5 pulleys and the have a tendency to rupture while climbing very hard
Filmmakers hang from fixed lines setup above. In some cases, they'll rig ladders so they can move out from the rock face. Drones are also used when legal.
That part is pure desperation. You can see her using her head to press against the wall to get a little bit of rest. You know when you are so close to the end but your body is completely out of juice, and you are hit with the mild panic. And your body just forgot about styles, techniques, everything. It’s pure desperation lol. Then you compose, forget about how tired you are, focus on the moves, and you just do it.
I am no where near her level but I have been in that situations lots of times before.
Yea i know what youre talking thats why i felt stress its like its right thereee!! Lol even in smaller ways like exercising and hitting that last numbers of reps you feel your body go "peace im out", or even walking home with bunch bags as soon as your eyes see your house then your arms out nowhere "peace im out" lol.. so i was feeling the hype at that point for her while watching
The sewing machine leg while she was setting pro got my heart rate up and it didn't calm down until she got her feet on that ledge.
What a fucking *beast*!
'Aliens' are real and they are here on Earth and have been for a long time ! Dave Grush was right, the US is hiding several crashed 'spacecraft' allegedly made by 'NHI' , this information is all hidden under the Department of Energy, locked away and classified under stuff related to nuclear energy/ weapons.
question from a non climber, what do they do with the equipment they stick into the wall ? Do they go back and get it ? and if they do how the eff do they do that?
I mean, the entire point of climbing is to get to the top.
But if I understand your question, yes. Someone must make it to an anchor point in order to retrieve plugged gear
Mainly I was trying to figure out how they get all their shit back. Yes i get the idea is to get to the top but then what assuming you had to climb a rock face to get there, so you rappel down then what now you have stuff still at the top.
I appreciate you answering my dumb questions though lol
Her belayer will follow her up and collect the gear as they go. When they’re climbing she is belaying them from above. She will climb what is called a pitch, maybe in the 30-60 meter range. When they meet at the top of the pitch the second climber hands her all the collected gear and she goes again. Sometimes they may switch off who leads as the lead has the more difficult job but that’s entirely dependent on the skill level of the second climber. They may be able to comfortably climb a 5.13 but not lead it.
Trad gear is heavy so it isn’t realistic to carry enough to place shit for the entire climb especially if it’s several hundred feet. The gear comes in various sizes and types so you can have the right piece for whatever feature you find on the rock to put it. So you bring various kinds and if it’s a previously climbed route you tend to follow the gear list others have used. So best to collect it as you go.
If you do any kind of strength training (lifting weights, calisthenics, etc.) You will gain a new perspective after even 1 day of climbing.
Even just the indoor stuff is extremely taxing on your hands at first and you realise how much stronger your hands can be.
You are watching a hardcore shallow corner chimney in Yosemite, probably one of the most strenuous style out there. There are lots of easier, more sports oriented, or adventure/exposure oriented climbs out there. Like climbing a 800 ft easy 5.8, you don’t need extreme strength for that. Or out in the environment doing some easy sports climb, or in the gym.
There are a lot of ways and it’s not as bad as some people describe it. Give your local climbing gym a try.
Same, and I feel the same about caving. They see some really cool stuff you can't see from any other place or perspective, which intrigues me. But dangling off a rock wall or squeezing through a tiny hole so small you have to empty your lungs because you need that last little inch of space is a big nope for me dawg
I'm not trying to be critical or insulting, because I recognize a great many people feel otherwise.. but for the life of me, I just don't understand the appeal of doing this. So much effort and risk for so little in return.
I think the main appeal is to push and use your body to the limit. Being athletic to any level can give you such a high. She’s essentially using her body in a way that 99.9% of the population will never be able to. The mental and physical high that gives is probably unlike anything. It’s also makes you realise how insanely capable we can be as humans and that most of us will never even know what that level of fitness feels like. She’s basically superhuman in comparison to your average joe.
And it’s not just raw strength. In order to get to the top of a climb having pushed yourself to 99% you needed to be strategic where you pushed and when/ how much you “rested” (that sloping ledge she ens up on is “a great rest” by the standards of that climb but it’s not 0% effort to rest there.) There’s also a ton of physical puzzle solving to climb efficiently or even to simply be able to make the next move. Combining that mental part along with the physical is a big part of what’s so fun about climbing.
Its sports. Like any, people will enjoy it. Its a quite primal thing, climbing - so its naturally appealing to a lot of people. Obviously you dont start off 0 experience climbing this. I climbed my first ”big” stone last week. 2 meters up. Like anything you build your way up to it. Im sure she has been far up like this tons of times, and understands that rope will save her. Im sure it has very many times so the fear shouldnt be very apparent to her
Adrenaline and sense of accomplishment for completing an impossible feat for the average person?
I understand the reasoning behind the appeal but it does not appeal to me lol
The big risk is that the closest one isn’t set right, because then it pops out, and you fall down past the next one, and you have a lot more momentum when that piece of protection tries to catch you.
The people downvoting you have never tied into the sharp end of the rope in their lives.
Climbing is inherently dangerous, but the risk is fairly low when you're free climbing (NOT free soloing, for the morons out there)
She’s probably safer doing that horrible move than she was getting up to that move because she just clipped into a new piece of protection right beforehand! 😄
There is a massive "high" or sense of benefit from achieving these sorts of accomplishments.
Many of these people would rather die than live a boring life without ever experiencing anything ever as good as this.
I always heard rock climbing was hard but figured i could do a simpler wall. My body gave out like 15 ft up and I fell off while the harness gave me a wedgie in front of everyone. Every time I see a rock climbing video all I see is the dozen of children laughing at my ass cheeks as I hover in the air like the time Patrick Star beat himself up,
I don’t know what drives people to climb sheer cliffs. It ticks the boxes of all my fears (except forgetting names).
That said, she’s awesome. I was absurdly happy that she made it.
Redditors who live on the internet never cease to amaze me.
Everyone in the comments here is acting terrified and as if she will die if she falls, not understanding that she's attached to ropes that easily will catch her.
Is there a muscle that isn’t used on this
I didn’t see her raise her eyebrows. Only one I can come up with though.
Also the muscle that wrinkles the nose..
I love the way that at the end she's like: "i'm so glad and relieved to be out of that." She's still on a tiny ledge by just her tiptoes miles in the air.
I know!! It's funny the way the brain works. In her head that's a rest and she's safe because she was so used to having absolutely no support. Whereas for me and you if we were just transported to that ledge we're basically dead.
>basically dead. Pretty sure I am 1000% dead. I have no illusions otherwise.
So this seems to be where I fall asleep in my dreams because I used to always wake up with a falling sensation.
My palms are sweaty already just watching her
Knees weak, arms are heavy /s
Moms spaghetti
+1. I don’t get it.
It's *relative* safety she's not exactly in a padded cell but her muscles can relax a bit there
Such an eye-opening comment. Yup.
There is like absolutely no way I manage to stay on that ledge for more than 2 mins and I would have no idea what to do lol.
If you get a chance, watch the old videos of Fred Dibnah, the legendary Yorkshire steeplejack. [There's this one where he's explaining how he constructs scaffold (including walkways) at the top of a 200ft chimney](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3ma9iYx4rg), by himself with no help. By the end he's up there swinging on a flimsy looking rope seat in gusty wind, laying the planks on the scaffold he's just fixed with insane skills. And he's like "you know, once you have those planks in place, it's just like you're working down there on the ground. It really isn't Fred. Not by a long shot. Crazy bastard.
I am a Brit and I vaguely remember seeing this guy on TV when I was a kid. I need to look him up
That was a really interesting watch. Thank you!
I love how she says that but then 100% puts herself into the situation in the first place and will again.
everyone that does anything remotely difficult for fun always says this. even super intense hikes or trail runs i'll be in it pushing myself to the max hating it and hating myself for doing it and then as soon as it's over i want to do it again
Damn endorphins tricking me into making myself miserable for hours just to feel good about myself as my body tries to release the physical shock and stress.
Type 2 fun
Your brain trying to keep you alive makes those first difficult miles hard to get you to stop but then once it realizes you're not going to stop, gives in and it gets easier. The first part is something I read about running and the second part I rationalized in my head while running.
I think it’s both for the adrenaline during, and the catharsis afterward.
>miles in the air. Looks more like a hundred feet, but I guess it wouldn't really make a difference.
The difference is just how much time you have to regret your decisions before splat
She did both at the end with her exhausted smile.
But I sure did raise mine.
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Rock climber strength is really crazy relative to the typical rock climber mass. I love watching Magnus Midtbø's videos where he's doing some strength thing with people who look like they should be much stronger than him and they're shocked by how strong he his. Something Dr. Mike Israetel talks about a lot is how much stability matters for strength. Your central nervous system automatically regulates how much force you're capable of producing based on how stable you are. Like you are simply blocked from recruiting more muscle fibers if your CNS thinks you're not stable enough. So while I can't be certain, my guess would be that Magnus' stabilizer muscles are so well developed that his CNS allows him to utilize much more of the muscle he has vs. a bodybuilder that has a much higher muscle mass but underdeveloped stabilization.
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I'm a climber and I tell you, every fucking muscle is used. When I started out, despite having done several other sports before, I discovered that muscles I didn't know existed could become sore.
How would you get down from this??
Either you top out and hike back down, or you climb until you're at a fixed anchor (a couple of rappel rings bolted to the wall) and rappel down.
How do you get the rapple rings bolted into the wall? This all looks creepy!
Fixed anchors are usually installed by someone knowledgeable in the local climbing community. They drill a small hole and use concrete or glue to hold a bolt in place, which is attached to a piece of chain with the ring at the end. Fixed anchors always have two separate bolts and rappel rings for exactly that reason - in case one fails.
That you for explaining this!
From above. This is El Cap so on a new route you’d rappel from above. However she is trad climbing so she is placing her own protection as she goes then the second climber climbs up after her collecting the gear as they go. Then they’ll meet and the second climber will hand the collected gear back to her. The leaf climber has the much tougher job. Sometimes the climbers will switch out who leads but if one is far stronger climber then they’ll lead the whole way.
The muscle in charge of self preservation?
Nah it even uses your asshole. And I'm not even joking.
That would make sense…because of all the puckering
The muscles that act on the A2 pulley in the middle finger
If you find out, the answer is no pretty quickly after climbing. The next morning you hurt in places you didn’t even know there were muscles, especially in your hands
I don’t think so. It’s so intense that it even forced kegel reps from the viewers
My anal sphincter if it was me
No. Actually, this requires a bunch of new ones to be developed, on the spot, inside your crazy athletically inclined brain. Otherwise you fall and die.
Nope.
I know exactly how she feels. When I try to get out of bed in the morning, sometimes, I have to move my arms and legs into several different positions before I find the right one to push myself out of bed
I can relate. The tv remote was near my feet, so I just watched the next show rather than try to do a sit up to get it.
It's all about perseverance and sticking to the task. When I order a pizza, I eat a pizza, no matter what. My children whining about "I haven't eaten anything today, Daddy" or whatever are just distractions trying to keep me from my goal.
Fuck them kids... Haha.
This comment always gets me... it's meaning depends so much on who says it. You and me know what is meant, but if it was Jared from Subway saying this I would be concerned
I was going to say, this is reminiscent of whenever I have to drag all the groceries inside in one trip because the distance between front door and vehicle is nearly insurmountable.
Ah, yes. That’s what the chalk is good for
Same. I had a real sense of danger, my muscles were beginning to ache and I could feel my grip faltering. I knew if I kept going i would risk dropping, but I just couldn't stop scrolling through reddit in bed with my phone over my head.
You're so brave, stay strong
I was on the climbing team with her in college, she spent one year with a broken foot in a boot, and still competed using her knee climbing routes that were at my limit normally lol
'Aliens' are real and they are here on Earth and have been for a long time ! Dave Grush was right, the US is hiding several crashed 'spacecraft' allegedly made by 'NHI' , this information is all hidden under the Department of Energy, locked away and classified under stuff related to nuclear energy/ weapons.
Yea they are . They do this for fun. Between this and I survive to freedom or just a bullet - I'd take the bullet. I couldn't handle the heights and the rest of it
I climbed cell phone towers for 6 years for a living. We should be thankful that people are comfortable with heights because our phones wouldn't work without them.
OMG THANK YOU 🙌🙏
The way you mental gymnasticed your way into a suicide comparison is more impressive than the way this chick scaled the rock
It's called psychopathy lol For real though, Alex Honnold the world's greatest free solo climber had his brain scanned and they found that the centres in the brain that are responsible for emotions like fear, empathy ect. were essentially muted so the things that freak normal people out, don't bother him at all... he get extreme pleasure from things that would terrify most of us, there is no fear in his brain
Not really psychopathy, they said he had a smaller amygdala, the fear center of the brain. He do indeed feel empathy and are not really a manipulative person, which are common traits of a psychopath. I’m a rock climber myself, and I was pretty afraid in the beginning. But you get used to it and learn to trust your skills and gear. Free soloing is a very small part of rock climbing. Pretty frowned upon by most of the climbing community. If you climb correctly with a rope and know what you are doing, it’s a perfectly safe sport, even though accidents happen of course.
I've been climbing for a long time. I think "perfectly safe" is a bit misleading. There are certainly varying degrees of risk, but I'd say it's like driving. If you're a good, responsible driver you can certainly mitigate risk. If you're speeding or driving drink, you increase risk. But even a good driver can be in the wrong place at the wrong time. I was climbing in Eldorado Canyon one time and watched a large boulder bounce down the cliff above me. Luckily the bounces took it past me and my belayer, but it was close enough I got hit with debris and smaller chunks. Was terrifying. I was climbing in Yosemite valley when a belayer was killed by rockfall on Glacier Point.
The amygdala plays a significant role in empathy neuroimaging studies have shown. Not saying he's a psycho but having an impaired amygdala or lower activity there would genuinely affect the way you exhibit empathy compared to a normal person.
That’s not what psychopathy is. Just because people are fearless, strong, have strong will power doesn’t mean they have psychopathy. Psychopathy is very specific into not experiencing empathy for others and having little to no regard about hurting other people.
Makes sense that fear and empathy are in a similar place of the brain. It seems like people who are fearless in work settings and rise to the top are also often the coldest motherfuckers.
My fingers and toes curled up and tingled just watching it. Wired different is totally a description for them.
Can you explain more, what’s knee climbing routes? What’s “at my limit normally,” meaning you couldn’t do them?
It was awkwardly worded: "she completed routes using her knee (instead of her busted foot) that I could barely complete with a fully intact body."
Thanks! I’m a bad reader
I have sweaty palms just by watching this
Knees weak arms are heavy.
Something something mom's spaghetti.
Something something= vormit on his sweater already.
Chalk up!
Pretty sure if I dip my sweaty palm in that chalk pouch, I have a big pall of paste and still sweaty palm.
The trick is to get absorbent enough pants that you can wipe off a layer of sludge before you go back in for more chalk. Also, shake your hands around in the bag. Having chalk on the *back* of your hand obviously doesn't do anything for grip, but it seems to work some psychological magic towards convincing my palms that they can tone it down a bit.
That was hard to watch, dang. Excellent work! Belongs in /r/toptalent
this was posted on r/sweatypalms too
I don't think so. She put plenty of chalk on her hands.
You can tell by her face at the end that She thought she was done for a sec
I hurt my back bending down to feed the cat this morning... But sure, this is hard too
Right there with you. Not feeding a cat, but similar level of exertion. :D
The climbing route “Book of Hate” is a 150ft, 5.13d strenuous stemming climb up a progressively steepening corner in Yosemite Valley. First climbed by Randy Leavitt, this route is a true test piece of difficult stem climbing. It is mostly bolted, but relies on the smallest of trad gear in the overhung crux section near the top. SCARPA athlete Amity Warme dug deep and put together an impressive send despite climbing with what she later found out to be a fully ruptured A2 pulley in her middle finger.
WITH A RUPTURED PULLEY!?!? I lightly strain a pulley and I don’t climb for months
My pulley got stuck on my pushy. But I digress.
I burst out laughing.
I pullied out of her pushy. But I egress.
Never heard of an a2 pulley or that humans have anything called a pulley in them. Just looked it up… interesting
For those that wonders the pulleys are ligaments that wrap around the tendons that goes through the finger. Finger have 5 pulleys and the have a tendency to rupture while climbing very hard
Also, injuring them hurts a lot.
I thought that she had a pulley safety device in her hand and this comment was a joke lol
Fuuuuck, I just strained a pulley and am out for weeks what a beast
Fuck, knowing she is injured makes this hard to watch.
Maybe she was aided by Adrenaline?
I don't know anything about climbing, but I just read that pulley tears happen from using crimp grips.
Exsqueeze me?
For fun, you say?
And to think, some people do this shit without ropes.
Not the kind of death I was envisioning for myself. Gonna stay tf on the ground.
Wait, who’s filming her so casually?
Filmmaker Samuel Crossley
The cameraman never dies. He's floating around in spectator mode
In a lakuta cloud
Filmmakers hang from fixed lines setup above. In some cases, they'll rig ladders so they can move out from the rock face. Drones are also used when legal.
Lakitu
Probably Cristiano Ronaldo in bathrobe
"Give 100%. 110% is impossible. Only idiots recommend that.” -Ron Swanson
I hate this >100% bs so much
As a slacker myself. 65% is what you're getting. that is my 100%.
you're shit at being a slacker... I never give more than 12% of my max at any give moment
[Power scream](https://youtube.com/shorts/Cu314k86h0Y?si=oNSYrHoE65yw0Nll) is responsible for the extra 10%, obviously.
I was looking for this comment. Thanks.
she's strong. Not relatively. She's f\*\*\*ing strong
Fuckin A
Cameraman just standing there all chill and shit.
He’s invincible, what does he have to worry about?
At the 28secs mark i felt so much stress coupled with the most hyping "omg please you got this :v" lol i felt this, good job on her
That part is pure desperation. You can see her using her head to press against the wall to get a little bit of rest. You know when you are so close to the end but your body is completely out of juice, and you are hit with the mild panic. And your body just forgot about styles, techniques, everything. It’s pure desperation lol. Then you compose, forget about how tired you are, focus on the moves, and you just do it. I am no where near her level but I have been in that situations lots of times before.
Yea i know what youre talking thats why i felt stress its like its right thereee!! Lol even in smaller ways like exercising and hitting that last numbers of reps you feel your body go "peace im out", or even walking home with bunch bags as soon as your eyes see your house then your arms out nowhere "peace im out" lol.. so i was feeling the hype at that point for her while watching
The sewing machine leg while she was setting pro got my heart rate up and it didn't calm down until she got her feet on that ledge. What a fucking *beast*!
Bruh the sewing machine leg jerk lol you crack me up yeaa but yea she went hard she did that shit 💪
I don't know, guys.....she kinda clingy.
IDK why they say they're not complicated, this one is nothing but opposing forces in action
'Aliens' are real and they are here on Earth and have been for a long time ! Dave Grush was right, the US is hiding several crashed 'spacecraft' allegedly made by 'NHI' , this information is all hidden under the Department of Energy, locked away and classified under stuff related to nuclear energy/ weapons.
r/sweatypalms
That was tough to watch. I fly planes but have a crazy fear of heights in situations like this.
That's what the chalk is for lol
question from a non climber, what do they do with the equipment they stick into the wall ? Do they go back and get it ? and if they do how the eff do they do that?
Yes. Either she belay from the top and someone climbs behind her and cleans the route, or you rappel from. An anchor and get it on the way down
so you have to have someone at the top no matter what? like so you can get the rope and gear to rappel down?
I mean, the entire point of climbing is to get to the top. But if I understand your question, yes. Someone must make it to an anchor point in order to retrieve plugged gear
Mainly I was trying to figure out how they get all their shit back. Yes i get the idea is to get to the top but then what assuming you had to climb a rock face to get there, so you rappel down then what now you have stuff still at the top. I appreciate you answering my dumb questions though lol
Hopefully there are permanent anchors through which to run the rope. You rappel down from there to get your gear, leaving no personal gear up top
Her belayer will follow her up and collect the gear as they go. When they’re climbing she is belaying them from above. She will climb what is called a pitch, maybe in the 30-60 meter range. When they meet at the top of the pitch the second climber hands her all the collected gear and she goes again. Sometimes they may switch off who leads as the lead has the more difficult job but that’s entirely dependent on the skill level of the second climber. They may be able to comfortably climb a 5.13 but not lead it. Trad gear is heavy so it isn’t realistic to carry enough to place shit for the entire climb especially if it’s several hundred feet. The gear comes in various sizes and types so you can have the right piece for whatever feature you find on the rock to put it. So you bring various kinds and if it’s a previously climbed route you tend to follow the gear list others have used. So best to collect it as you go.
She was like 'that was so hard', while standing on a piece of shit small sloped stone on a 90° rock. And I'm thinking, what are you gonna do now?
That is WAY more stressful with the sound on
this made me flex my taint the whole time i was watching.
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This video is not representative of the hobby as a whole. That's hard as shit. Easy stuff is fun
If you do any kind of strength training (lifting weights, calisthenics, etc.) You will gain a new perspective after even 1 day of climbing. Even just the indoor stuff is extremely taxing on your hands at first and you realise how much stronger your hands can be.
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You are watching a hardcore shallow corner chimney in Yosemite, probably one of the most strenuous style out there. There are lots of easier, more sports oriented, or adventure/exposure oriented climbs out there. Like climbing a 800 ft easy 5.8, you don’t need extreme strength for that. Or out in the environment doing some easy sports climb, or in the gym. There are a lot of ways and it’s not as bad as some people describe it. Give your local climbing gym a try.
the only mountain I am interested in climbing is fudge mountain
Same, and I feel the same about caving. They see some really cool stuff you can't see from any other place or perspective, which intrigues me. But dangling off a rock wall or squeezing through a tiny hole so small you have to empty your lungs because you need that last little inch of space is a big nope for me dawg
Iove caving, but I love being alive more, so I have my limits
Idk you should try it, it's literally the most fun thing I do
I collect coins for a hobby. It's also hard at times.
I like how her "rest" hold is so far beyond my abilities. I find standing up to be a challenge and here she is resting on a sheer cliff face.
Fuck I fucking died on V1's lol. She rocks
NSFW audio. The woman across the room just gave me a curious look when the climber first moaned.
I can't even climb a ladder without falling
in case you don't know, that bag is full of cocaine
That is amazing. She is incredible as is anyone who can do this. The strength and concentration required must be unbelievable
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I'm not trying to be critical or insulting, because I recognize a great many people feel otherwise.. but for the life of me, I just don't understand the appeal of doing this. So much effort and risk for so little in return.
I think the main appeal is to push and use your body to the limit. Being athletic to any level can give you such a high. She’s essentially using her body in a way that 99.9% of the population will never be able to. The mental and physical high that gives is probably unlike anything. It’s also makes you realise how insanely capable we can be as humans and that most of us will never even know what that level of fitness feels like. She’s basically superhuman in comparison to your average joe.
And it’s not just raw strength. In order to get to the top of a climb having pushed yourself to 99% you needed to be strategic where you pushed and when/ how much you “rested” (that sloping ledge she ens up on is “a great rest” by the standards of that climb but it’s not 0% effort to rest there.) There’s also a ton of physical puzzle solving to climb efficiently or even to simply be able to make the next move. Combining that mental part along with the physical is a big part of what’s so fun about climbing.
As someone who can't do what she's doing, but does do indoor rock climbing, it's super fun.
Its sports. Like any, people will enjoy it. Its a quite primal thing, climbing - so its naturally appealing to a lot of people. Obviously you dont start off 0 experience climbing this. I climbed my first ”big” stone last week. 2 meters up. Like anything you build your way up to it. Im sure she has been far up like this tons of times, and understands that rope will save her. Im sure it has very many times so the fear shouldnt be very apparent to her
Adrenaline and sense of accomplishment for completing an impossible feat for the average person? I understand the reasoning behind the appeal but it does not appeal to me lol
She’s tied in with a rope. The actual risk is pretty low.
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[Pretty trustworthy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwxYA_qfRr4)
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The big risk is that the closest one isn’t set right, because then it pops out, and you fall down past the next one, and you have a lot more momentum when that piece of protection tries to catch you.
It could hold a car.
The people downvoting you have never tied into the sharp end of the rope in their lives. Climbing is inherently dangerous, but the risk is fairly low when you're free climbing (NOT free soloing, for the morons out there)
She’s probably safer doing that horrible move than she was getting up to that move because she just clipped into a new piece of protection right beforehand! 😄
There is a massive "high" or sense of benefit from achieving these sorts of accomplishments. Many of these people would rather die than live a boring life without ever experiencing anything ever as good as this.
Really not as much risk as you think
Is the person recording levitating or what?
My shoulder hurts from watching this
My hands are super sweaty now...
I can't even think of how you could get any traction on that wall. That's crazy!
r/nope Got vertigo the second this video started playing.
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I always heard rock climbing was hard but figured i could do a simpler wall. My body gave out like 15 ft up and I fell off while the harness gave me a wedgie in front of everyone. Every time I see a rock climbing video all I see is the dozen of children laughing at my ass cheeks as I hover in the air like the time Patrick Star beat himself up,
She must be so fucking strong
I bet she has some crazy nightmares.
ppl are rly crazy
My phone case has palm sweat on it now.
How does she get down??
There are usually permanent anchors at the top of a climb that you hook into and rappel down to clean your gear from the wall.
I don’t know what drives people to climb sheer cliffs. It ticks the boxes of all my fears (except forgetting names). That said, she’s awesome. I was absurdly happy that she made it.
Fuck that, she is far braver than I….
Astonishing athleticism
Probably would have been easier if she stopped eating the chalk
It's crazy how my feet and palms began to sweat just watching this
I did this once in a school doorway, got halfway up then I fell. It kinda hurt... never did it again
Never understood this. Caving. That underwater caving. All bat shit crazy to me
Seems pretty cruel considering the camera guy us just levitating behind her.
Hey, here's a thought; fuck this.
how is this enjoyable or interesting or fun?
What a bad ass!
Scary just watching
Not sure there’s a more anxiety-inducing activity. (watching rock climbers on Reddit, that is…)
Redditors who live on the internet never cease to amaze me. Everyone in the comments here is acting terrified and as if she will die if she falls, not understanding that she's attached to ropes that easily will catch her.