Oh Hell No!!!!!!!!!!!

[BBQ Guy]

Free Solo Climber Alex Honnold Ascends Yosemite's El Capitan Without a Rope

The climber is the first person to reach the top of Yosemite’s 3,000-foot El Capitan wall without ropes.

www.nationalgeographic.com

Honnold is a freak of nature. There is one or maybe 2 documentaries about him and his skills.

 

[RicInOR]

A couple of films/documentary's I read about but cannot watch are:
127 Hours, and this one

Amazon.com

An alternative are all Warren Miller films - in most cases I wouldn't /couldn't do this but in general, good fun

Amazon.com : warren miller

 

[Ferryman]

Dude needs a haircut. Just sayin'

 

[Ura-Ki]

I hear @sobo free climbs in the buff, something about getting his junk rubbed on the rocks! I know he would say ya gotta try it, but nope, if it's anything like sky diving in the buff, no thank you very much, that water was cold and deep too!

 

[sobo]

Uh, he wins ... whatever it is, "you win there pal" ...

Literally, how can this be possible, yet there he is, without rope. Every muscle in his body has to be working.

He has a rope. Look more closely...

It's pale green, and it's connected to a quick-draw and a 'biner right behind his left heel.

 

[Texanna]

He has a rope. Look more closely...

Thank you, gonna look more closely indeed

 

[sobo]

All I know is that it is a French free climber at El Capiitan in California. He is well known in the climbing community but I have no clue who he is

He's a Czech, and his name is Adam Ondra...

 

[sobo]

Which begs the question of how do you pee or poop without the assistance of a rope to keep you in place during said act????

That is a good question – so just how long does it take him to get up there?

For guys of this caliber, this is a day climb
There are a few places along the face where you can piss into the wind. For solids, they just hold it until they get to the top.
Multi-day climbers use a poop tube.

 

[sobo]

This is a legit search phrase, and looking ya get stuff like:


So they must use pitons to hook the harness to, I guess ....

We don't use pitons any more, except very rarely. Too destructive to the rock. About 60 years ago, several leading rock climbers of the day (Royal Robbins, Yvon Chouinard, others) adopted an ethic that was termed "clean climbing", in that the pieces of protection inserted into the cracks are no longer hammered in by the leader and then hammered out by the second, but rather were set in cracks and act passively (in terms of chocks, nuts, and tri-cams) or actively, in the case of SLCDs (spring loaded camming devices). I can post pictures of this stuff if anyone is interested in what all this stuff looks like. Or just google it...

 

[sobo]

I think Sobo said he does that naked. Must like sticking his pecker in the crags for a good time.

Sometimes it's the only crack I can get...

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Rock climbing....
The upwardly mobile cousin of Falling Rock....
Andy

 

[oremike]

Rock climbing....
The upwardly mobile cousin of Falling Rock....
Andy

Ah yes the Indian Brave Falling Rock, looking for his Girl Curves Ahead, Beware of Falling Rock when traveling.

 

[Flopsweat]

I have no idea why I would be climbing a sheer cliff face when I could be sitting at the bottom with a cold bear and binoculars, waiting for someone to fall.

In fact, forget the binoculars and the mountain.

 

[Certaindeaf]

I have no idea why I would be climbing a sheer cliff face when I could be sitting at the bottom with a cold bear and binoculars, waiting for someone to fall.

In fact, forget the binoculars and the mountain.

Waiting is thirsty work.

 

[Siglvr]

Non-climber - "That's F**ing crazy."
Climber: "That dude wearing the new LaSportiva Focus shoe?"

There was a naked climbing thing around here for a bit. I came back from belaying some pups who peeled it off. Came back and described it to wife. Wife told me: "Nobody wants to see a naked wrinkly out of shape old man, you just keep your clothes on". LOL



Oh, it went even further, later it got more extreme, barefoot, no harness - just using the rope as a swami. These were first ascents so it seemed iffy to do it without a rope in case a rock popped off or something like that, and no one wants to walk in the woods around here barefoot, but generally even more minimalist. On one of these days, February, I was wearing a thick Feather Friends down coat.

ps, Sobo, look like you were in good shape!

 

[Certaindeaf]

Non-climber - "That's F**ing crazy."
Climber: "That dude wearing the new LaSportiva Focus shoe?"

There was a naked climbing thing around here for a bit. I came back from belaying some pups who peeled it off. Came back and described it to wife. Wife told me: "Nobody wants to see a naked wrinkly out of shape old man, you just keep your clothes on". LOL

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Lol, I used to ride down to Saline Valley and just shuck the clothes for the duration. Natural hot tubs and nekid softball good times.

 

[Siglvr]

Another day.

 

[BBQ Guy]

This is worse than a Grindr backpage...

I'm out.

 

[Certaindeaf]

This is worse than a Grindr backpage...

I'm out.

Instead of bouldering it's balldering.

 

[Texanna]

We don't use pitons any more, except very rarely. Too destructive to the rock. About 60 years ago, several leading rock climbers of the day (Royal Robbins, Yvon Chouinard, others) adopted an ethic that was termed "clean climbing", in that the pieces of protection inserted into the cracks are no longer hammered in by the leader and then hammered out by the second, but rather were set in cracks and act passively (in terms of chocks, nuts, and tri-cams) or actively, in the case of SLCDs (spring loaded camming devices). I can post pictures of this stuff if anyone is interested in what all this stuff looks like. Or just google it...

Thank you, I'll look 'em up, I've heard of the tri-cams, etc. No climber here, I learned about "pitons" a long time ago (probly from reading National Geographic or similar) ....