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  • #16
    Re: That's Neat! 1: That's neat

    Originally posted by Kepler View Post
    This isn't fake. Holy f-cking f-cksh-t!
    I know guys who can climb like that. They just won't do it. Setting protective gear - cam anchors, wedges, and such, and running ropes through them are what keep you alive if there's an unexpected wind gust or some foothold unexpectedly breaks away.

    I have photos of my at the top of some 100+ ft. tall cliffs, and I'm wearing all the gear because falling hurts. And I was never that great of a climber. That said, even good climbers fall, usually because they're pushing themselves to try harder and harder rock walls.
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    • #17
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      There's a great documentary about a couple of guys who tried to set the speed record on El Capitan. It's frightening but a good watch.

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      • #18
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        Originally posted by St. Clown View Post
        Free climbing El Capitan? Nope, not gonna do it. Wouldn't be prudent.
        not ****ting on you, but people always mess up climbing terminology:

        Free climbing = using gear only for safety, not to aid your progress up the climb, several routes up El Cap have been free climbed
        aid climbing = using gear to aid upward progress (the Yosemite big walls were originally done as aid climbs starting in the 50s/60s, so pretty much every Yosemite route started as an aid climb, and many are still climbed that way by average climbers)
        free solo climbing = free climbing with no safety gear (this is what Alex did)
        solo climbing = climbing without a partner, but with gear (often solo aid climbing).

        Previously Alex had done a solo ascent of El Cap (the Nose route), and while he free soloed all the "easy" stuff, he did some solo aid on some of the harder sections. He got famous for his super fast solos of big walls, including his Yosemite "triple" soloing Mt Watkins, Half Dome, and El Cap in a single day. Later he blew people away when he free soloed Half Dome (he had made a name for free soloing hard climbs, but no one had tried anything as big as Half Dome). This is a whole other level.
        Last edited by BassAle; 06-05-2017, 02:22 PM.

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        • #19
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          Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
          There's a great documentary about a couple of guys who tried to set the speed record on El Capitan. It's frightening but a good watch.

          "Am Limit" is the German title. Translated to "To The Limit"

          Alex has a bunch of speed records in Yosemite, often with Hans Florine, a speed climber. I think Alex and Hans [EDIT: nope, it was with Tommy Caldwell, of Dawn Wall fame] set a new record on Freerider (the route Alex just climbed free solo) a few weeks ago, probably a stealth bottom to top practice run for Alex's free solo. Alex just blew that record away. There are dozens of different established routes up each wall (El Cap, Half Dome, etc). Each route has it's own records. The speed records usually involve some free and aid climbing (with a leader and a belayer that follows the pitch after the leader reaches the anchors at the top) and simul-climbing where both climbers are roped together but are climbing at the same time, often without any protection between them, so if one falls he will probably pull the other climber off with him.
          Last edited by BassAle; 06-05-2017, 07:19 PM.

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          • #20
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            I honestly don't see how what he's doing is physically possible. Even though he's rail thin his center of gravity has to be a couple inches out from the rock face. The angle of incline on El Cap averages 80 degrees, so there must be places where it is virtually a perfect right angle. There don't appear to be ledges of greater than fractions of inches, so even if you get great purchase with your fingers you would have no assist from your legs -- you would be doing a pull-up using your finger tips. Is that even possible?
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            • #21
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              Originally posted by Kepler View Post
              I honestly don't see how what he's doing is physically possible. Even though he's rail thin his center of gravity has to be a couple inches out from the rock face. The angle of incline on El Cap averages 80 degrees, so there must be places where it is virtually a perfect right angle. There don't appear to be ledges of greater than fractions of inches, so even if you get great purchase with your fingers you would have no assist from your legs -- you would be doing a pull-up using your finger tips. Is that even possible?
              I'm pretty sure Alex can do one fingered pull ups. With climbing shoes he can also stand on dime thin bumps on what looks like a pretty smooth 80 degree slab of rock. I'm a ****ty climber, it really blows my mind what he can basically walk up effortlessly (something I could never even think about climbing). Obviously it isn't all "slab" climbing (less than 90 degree relatively featureless rock), there are cracks where you wedge feet/hands or fingertips/toes (or even entire limbs or your body), I'm sure there are even some overhanging sections, but obviously those have holds or cracks that allow him to climb them.
              Last edited by BassAle; 06-05-2017, 02:33 PM.

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              • #22
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                Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                I honestly don't see how what he's doing is physically possible. Even though he's rail thin his center of gravity has to be a couple inches out from the rock face. The angle of incline on El Cap averages 80 degrees, so there must be places where it is virtually a perfect right angle. There don't appear to be ledges of greater than fractions of inches, so even if you get great purchase with your fingers you would have no assist from your legs -- you would be doing a pull-up using your finger tips. Is that even possible?
                Have you seen rock climbing shoes in the past 20 years or so? They're extremely "grippy", and some are designed to provide support on just the smallest of lips/edges you can imagine.

                Also, there are short routes that people have set where the entire thing is goes outward from the base. In MN, at Interstate Park, there's a slew of mostly simple climbing routes, but there's one route titled "Witche's T*t." There's a small bit of ground at the bottom of the route, no place up top to set protective gear (no anchors spots for setting a belay), so if you can't complete it, you're taking a swim in the St. Croix River.
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                • #23
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                  Originally posted by BassAle View Post
                  I'm pretty sure Alex can do one fingered pull ups. With climbing shoes he can also stand one dime thin bumps on what looks like a pretty smooth 80 degree slab of rock. I'm a ****ty climber, it really blows my mind what he can basically walk up effortlessly (something I could never even think about climbing)
                  Well, I guess once it's possible at all then it's possible to do effortlessly, since that's just a "trivial" matter of strength, technique, and conditioning.

                  With stuff like this I always wonder about something stupid: does it hurt? Has he trained himself not to care, or is he so well conditioned that his body says, "fine, sure."
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                  • #24
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                    Regarding Alex Honnold, I think it is one of the greatest athletic achievements in history.

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                    • #25
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                      This is a beautiful little piece on mathematics.
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                      • #26
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                        Originally posted by BassAle View Post
                        Regarding Alex Honnold, I think it is one of the greatest athletic achievements in history.
                        No argument here. It seems like the equivalent of swimming solo, unaided from Muskegon to Milwaukee.
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                        • #27
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                          What did Latin REALLY sound like?

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                          • #28
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                            Originally posted by joecct View Post
                            That was a great presentation although good god if I had to listen to Little Susie Happytalk there for more than 5 minutes I'd stab him in the face.

                            Why the f-ck do Campus Crusade for Chipper Chatter types always have to sound like that? It's as much of a dead tell as gay men with their--------.

                            Oh.

                            Never mind.
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                            • #29
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                              Re: Honnold, truly mind boggling. I read his first interview when he finished, the guy asked him what he'll do now, he said "Today is hang-boarding day. I'll have to go hang board." (this is when he goes and does the one-fingered pullups in the gym for a few hours) He's so super-disciplined that it's basically a mental illness. Being lazy and an early quitter, I have no understanding of a person like that.
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                              • #30
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                                Originally posted by geezer View Post
                                Re: Honnold, truly mind boggling. I read his first interview when he finished, the guy asked him what he'll do now, he said "Today is hang-boarding day. I'll have to go hang board." (this is when he goes and does the one-fingered pullups in the gym for a few hours) He's so super-disciplined that it's basically a mental illness. Being lazy and an early quitter, I have no understanding of a person like that.
                                He's obviously neurotic. Maybe his parents died in a mountaineering accident and he subconsciously feels that if he can just hang by his fingertips long enough they'll be restored to him.

                                So, he's super f-cked up in the head, which is bad, but it makes for a moment's passing entertainment for me, so that's good.
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