He is amazing
I think this is a little lime ueli stecks 2.30 free of the north face of the eiger in winter.
I also fear honnold will go the same way
Hard to appreciate the magnitude of the accomplishment without having been to Yosemite. Incredible feat.
I think the physical and mental accomplishment here, may be the greatest ever in sport. I hope, this is his masterpiece, and he backs off from here.
Wow.
Pucker factor of 11.
I get the willy’s just standing on a cliff edge looking over and refuse to get with six feet. I hope he goes to free climbing.
I hope, this is his masterpiece, and he backs off from here.
Me too. I don’t follow climbing much but recently watched Valley Uprising on Netflix. Alex is a likable guy.
Will watch the NatGeo movie when it comes out for sure.
Unbelievable climb. Might be the most amazing individual accomplishment in sports I’ve ever heard of.
Thanks for sharing.
drn92
Hard to appreciate the magnitude of the accomplishment without having been to Yosemite. Incredible feat.
I don’t think so. I’ve never been there, but the pictures/video I’ve seen are enough to know that it’s an extreme/impressive feat.
Thankfully my 5 year old was born with a healthy dose of fear gene. I told him about it and he said, “you climb, you fall, you die”.
I’m in the opposite boat.
My 7 year old son is a climber.
He has climbed V8 in bouldering and 5.11c outdoors already. Those are ridiculously hard ratings for most climbers - absurd for a seven year old.
While he thinks what Alex did was crazy and stupid now - not so sure he’ll see it that way in 10-20 years.
I’ve followed Honnold for years and have seen a number of his videos. For this one, I’ve watched a number of times and get sweaty palms each time.
We are trying to convince the boy that climbing is fun - with ropes. The baby just needs to get a bit bigger and we can start going again.
I saw this related article in case anyone missed it. It is the first interview with Alex afterwards.
I found it funny that he woke up some climbers who were sleeping on a ledge. You’ve got to be a pretty decent climber to go up El Cap with ropes in two to three days. Imagine you wake up and some dude is climbing alone (though surely they recognized him) with no ropes. Must have been a pretty big “what the heck” moment for them.
I’m in the opposite boat.
My 7 year old son is a climber.
He has climbed V8 in bouldering and 5.11c outdoors already. Those are ridiculously hard ratings for most climbers - absurd for a seven year old.
While he thinks what Alex did was crazy and stupid now - not so sure he’ll see it that way in 10-20 years.
Guaran fucking tee you in 10-20 years this will still be looked at as crazy and stupid. Name one other climber who is even in the same state, let alone zip code as Honnold. Even if five more climbers do this (which simply isn’t going to happen), it would still be considered crazy and stupid for 99.9999999999999999% of any human who has ever walked the earth.
I didn’t say that some day in the future this climb would seem reasonable. I said, I hope my son doesn’t start to rationalize free soloing more as he becomes older and an even more capable and confident climber.
No words. And in less than 4 hours.
i saw this in the news and was totally amazed that it could even be done. i cannot imagine it. Much Respect. To stand in Yosemite Valley and look up at El Cap is so inspiring. Most visitors to Yosemite never leave the roadside–much less the Valley. So we visit there in passing and spend most of our time backpacking out of Tuolumne Meadows into the high country. You can go for days without seeing anyone.
Grandparents ranch just south of the park below Fish Camp. first memories of Yosemite was with my parents taking me there to see the Fire Falls in mid 60’s. totally environmentally unsound but also so beautiful. back before all the hippies ruined it.
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I saw this related article in case anyone missed it. It is the first interview with Alex afterwards.
I found it funny that he woke up some climbers who were sleeping on a ledge. You’ve got to be a pretty decent climber to go up El Cap with ropes in two to three days. Imagine you wake up and some dude is climbing alone (though surely they recognized him) with no ropes. Must have been a pretty big “what the heck” moment for them.
In that article, the second picture down of him, where he is sitting at the top of el cap, with his feet hanging down… I believe that is Middle Cathedral in the background across the valley floor.
I spent a couple weeks climbing in the valley and meadows back in the early 90s. Middle cathedral was the hardest sustained climb I had ever done and turns out, ever did. We started at sun rise and didn’t get back down to the valley until after dark that evening. I think my partner and I only took a quart of water and a couple bagels between the two of us for the whole day, and we were roasted by the sun on the rock face all day. I was so damn dehydrated.
Anyway, it looks like just a pimple to where he is on top of el Cap.
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Truly an amazing accomplishment. But stupid as fuck! It’s would be like winning the Daytona 500 in a car with no roll cage, harness, helmet or fire suit. Sure it can be done but why?
I respect what Caldwell and Jorgeson did with free climbing, always having a safety rope just in case you got a cramp or something.