Alex Honnold - Free Solo airs 8 pm CT (he’s still alive)

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  1. LeonardWashington

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    It’s in California
     
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    Meru is so good. Think I watched it 10 times before Dawn Wall and thought what are these guys (Dawn Wall) complaining about
     
  3. WillySaliba

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    I wish they were all 3 hours longer.
     
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  4. El_Pato

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    Watching Valley Uprising now, I may have started backwards.

    But I can't get enough
     
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    Yes same. I think the right order is valley uprising, dawn wall, first episode of first ascent, free solo
     
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    Did you see any of the reel rock stuff? Having a hard time finding it through legal/illegal measures. Keep seeing references for 10 and 11.
     
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    Yes, I have 10, which is excellent. That has Tommy and Alex doing Patagonia. It's on IPT.
     
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    What is IPT?
     
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    IPtorrents. It is a private tracker.
     
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    Ah okay makes sense I use indexers and can't find a thing on there.
     
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    When sport climbing starts Olympic qualifiers, he will be the favorite. He is setting and climbing routes that, even 5 years ago, people didn't even think could be routes because of their difficulty.

    Completely aside: Sasha DiGiulian is bae
     
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    Valley Uprising is the perfect place to start. It gives the proper context going forward
     
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    Not sure if I’m crazy but my Amazon Fire Stick has the Red Bull TV app and I think I’m watching Reel Rock right now.

    First ep was Sharma vs Ondra now speed climbing the nose.
     
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    Just finished dawn walk and tommy is a great person wow
     
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  16. gus_chiggins

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    It’s absolutely incredible he still climbs at an elite level after losing half of his index finger
     
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    Yes it is on Red Bull tv.
     
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    There is a pretty serious climbing wall at the SkyZone in Mount Pleasant...my kids love it. You should definitely get your gear and head up there.
     
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    I've climbed enough to know that I'm not fit for it for anything more than occasional recreation - but have a general understanding of the sport and difficultly levels of certain climbs/routes.

    Adam Ondra is ridiculous - some of the routes he has accomplished are potentially not repeatable by the best climbers in the world. Alex has said a couple times that Adam is the strongest climber in the world - obviously different genre as you fall 500 times to complete the 9b/c level shit Adam is attempting so free-soloing isn't a thing in that world.
     
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    Watched Free Solo last night on Hulu. Shit was insane
     
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    https://www.outsideonline.com/2392988/fitz-roy-free-solo

    This Yosemite Climber Free Soloed Fitz Roy in Patagonia
    Jim Reynolds is a name you’ve likely never heard, but his free-soloing feats top those of Alex Honnold—if not in difficulty, then in length, commitment, and style
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    Chunks of ice hurtled down the headwall. The rime, which coated the top of Fitz Roy like a cap, was melting in the midday sun. A direct hit would be enough to pluck Jim Reynolds off the wall. Climbing free solo—with only his rock shoes, a chalk bag, and a pack—he veered off route, sidestepping the immediate danger, and continued climbing into unknown terrain on the adjacent rock face. A few hundred feet later, at 3:13 p.m. on March 21, the 25-year-old from Weaverville, California, reached the summit of Patagonia’s iconic peak. But the climbing for Reynolds was only halfway over. Instead of rappelling the granite monolith, the usual method of descent, he was about to do the inconceivable, something that had never been done before. He was going to free solo down-climb the entire 5,000-foot spire.

    “By the time I got down to the lower slabs, they were soaking wet,” says Reynolds. “Imagine what a nightmare it was, down climbing in the dark with a dim headlamp, on wet, insecure slabs, not knowing exactly where the route went. And that was probably after 12 or 13 hours of non-stop movement.”

    You may recognize Jim Reynolds as the man who partnered with Brad Gobright in 2017 to break the speed record on El Capitan's Nose route. But his free solo ascent and descent of Afanassieff (5.10c) on Fitz Roy, which might be the longest free solo ever, has launched him to the next level. The climb itself is huge, and no one has ever down-soloed anything of this caliber. “It would take a competent team of two, pitching it out, two days to do that climb,” says Ted Hesser, a climber and photographer who also summited Fitz Roy this season. “To commit to something like that, free solo, is so bold because there’s so much terrain, and it’s very alpine in nature—there’s loose rock, snow, ice, and variable conditions. It makes my stomach drop.”

    To put this ascent into perspective, when Alex Honnold completed his ground-breaking free solo of El Capitan’s Freerider (5.13a) in Yosemite, he climbed 3,000 feet in 3 hours, 56 minutes. Including the down climb, Reynolds free soloed 10,000 vertical feet in 15 and a half hours. While Afanassieff is technically easier than Freerider, it’s on a remote alpine peak with serious objective hazards and route-finding challenges. Freerider, in comparison, is a well-traveled route with clean rock in one of the busiest national parks in the U.S.

    Before his free solo of Freerider, Honnold spent countless hours on a rope, rehearsing and memorizing every hand hold, foot hold, and move on the route. Reynolds, on the other hand, climbed Afanassieff onsight, meaning he had never climbed the route before (except for the first third, during an aborted free-solo attempt the week prior, when it didn’t “feel right”) and had no prior knowledge of the sequences of moves. To be clear, both feats are ridiculous—possibly insane—but Honnold's climb is maybe the only other exploit available to place what Reynolds has just pulled off in its proper context.

    Reynolds is on the Yosemite Search and Rescue team (YOSAR). He knows the risks of climbing firsthand. “Mountains are beautiful, but they’re brutal as well,” he told National Geographic. “I have seen the consequences of what you look like when you fall 1,000 feet to ground. Those images of death are a part of me.”

    In the weeks leading up to his Fitz Roy solo, Reynolds also onsight free soloed—up and down—two other Patagonian peaks. On March 9, he free soloed up Filo Oeste (5.11a) on the West Ridge of Aguja Rafael Juarez, and then free soloed down the Anglo-Americana (5.11b) for approximately 4,600 feet of climbing in total. Only two days later, he free soloed up Chiaro di Luna (5.11a) on Aguja Saint-Exupery, and then free soloed down the chossy Kearney-Harrington (5.10b) on the tower’s North Face, approximately 3,800 feet of climbing.

    Reynolds didn’t head to Patagonia this season, his first time there, with the intention of climbing ropeless and alone. He began the trip climbing with partners as a roped team, the way most people ascend the region's large granite peaks. “I really enjoyed those experiences, but each time, I felt like I wasn’t able to express who I was as a climber,” he says. “And I didn’t really know what that meant.”

    The answer for him was free soloing—not just up, but back down as well, in the purest style of climbing he was capable of. For Reynolds, free soloing is deeply personal, not something to be glorified nor condemned. Like an echo of Dean Potter, he describes climbing as a form of art, and to him, free soloing is pursuing that art to its highest level. “Maybe you climb every pitch ropeless, but is it a true free solo if you rappel?” he says. “The fact that there’s a question doesn’t mean that it’s not a free solo, it just implies that there’s a higher level of style possible.” He’s quick to add: “It’s not like I did it in the highest standard possible—I still used climbing shoes and a chalk bag, so there’s still a greater style out there for someone else.”

    He carried a rack of gear for protection and a thin rope he could use to rappel on his free solos of Rafael Juarez and Fitz Roy (but he left his pack at the base of the Chiaro di Luna). He planned to down climb the routes, he says, but that wasn’t his expectation. “The expectation was to do whatever made the most sense in the moment and to have options,” he says. “You want to have as many options as you can to keep your safety margins as wide as possible so that if anything goes wrong, you’re not like, Oh, this one small mistake means I’m going to die up here.”

    Climbing, especially free soloing, often gets a bad rap as a selfish and solitary pursuit. But Reynolds doesn’t see it that way. To him, climbing is about the community—people supporting each other, learning from each other, and drawing inspiration from one another. “Without that, I don’t think any of these solos would have been possible,” he says. He mentions piggybacking off of Marc-André Leclerc and Brette Harrington who both free soloed Chiaro di Luna, and Potter, the only other climber known to have free soloed Fitz Roy, but taking those accomplishments further (all three of those climbers rappelled).

    “They showed me what was possible, and I was able to envision this next style,” he says. “We’re standing on the shoulders of those who came before us, and we’re paving a path for those who come after us. It’s not something we’re doing alone.”
     
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    Tommy Caldwell is on today's Art of Manliness podcast, if anyone is interested.
     
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    For any readers out there, his book "The Push" is great. About halfway through so far and to the point where he cuts his finger off after the whole hostage thing in Kyrgyzstan. Really recommend.
     
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    Ye, I saw this in my facebook feed this morning. Sucks.
     
  29. gus_chiggins

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    small detail, for those who own the digital copy of the movie, my copy got upgraded to 4k in the last week or so.
     
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    "A hold broke. It's out of your hands." I've had multiple holds break on me in 20 years of climbing. Been stung, run into snakes, hit my rocks and other things from climbers or tourists above. Point is that if you haven't prepared for these common occurrences to occur then you haven't truly prepared. I prepare for them by using well placed pro and a belay system. I'm sure this guy was a good dude but his death was both preventable and predictable.
     
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    Not dead yet...


    Alex recommended this video of some guy free soloing a waterfall. ( I just fast forwarded to 7:37. Fucking as ridiculous or worse than you can imagine.)

     
  34. $P1

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    That's ridiculous
     
  35. Fusiontegra

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    Just over1000 feet in about 1:40.
     
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    Thread reminds me that I will soon be hanging Christmas lights for the first time on a 2 story house
     
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  38. Fusiontegra

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    IG is being stupid but I assume this is about Gobright. Really fucking sad.
     
  39. Sportfan

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    Yea, haven’t had a chance to see Reel Rock 14 but after reading more about his life today I really want to check it out. Seemed like an awesome guy.
     
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    I hate when this thread gets bumped :ohdear:
     
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  41. Fusiontegra

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    Definitely watch it. He’s a ridiculously easy guy to like.
     
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    @sannimccandless agreed to marry me. Marry Christmas!!
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  44. spagett

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    I wish there was video of the proposal

    Sure it was awkward
     
  45. gus_chiggins

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    I’m assuming this is the same girl from Free Solo?
     
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    She’s in it for the life insurance.
     
  47. gus_chiggins

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    I imagine the premiums are just fucking $$$$
     
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    https://www.redbull.com/int-en/shows/reel-rock-1

    Reel rock 14 is on Redbull.com and RedullTV for free. Shows as season 6 I think.

    Honnold and Caldwell go after the Nose speed record.

    If you wanna watch someone crazier than him watch the Nina Williams segments.
     
  49. spagett

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    Whew! So exhilarating clicking on this thread