No. I’m not going there.
“Because it’s there” is not sufficiant reason for climbing a mountain.
Row, row, row your boat?
It’s a good enough reason for me.
Thank God I’m not stupid enough to do this LOL.
The good thing about this is that you don’t have to do this
On a scale of “1 to NOPE” I rate this an “absolutely the fuck not, what is wrong with you?”
nonononononono. nope. non. nein.
One fart and I’m dead
That’s a nope for me, dawg.
He’s got a harness on but it doesn’t look like it’s connected to anything.
I don’t think that’s a harness I think it’s a chalk bag. You can see the bag just behind his hand.
Isn’t the chalk bag connected to the harness?
To the contrary: You can sometimes recognise beginners by observing that they have their chalk bag attached to their harness with a carabiner. Usually, you attach the chalk bag with a strap around your waist. The harness is reserved for protection gear (nuts, cams, etc.)
This guy is Alex Honnold, famous for free soloing (climbing without a rope). He has a movie called “Free Solo” where he solos El Capitan, it’s a good movie if you’re interested :)
I always wear mine on my harness but I usually sport climb and rarely trad climb where I’d need nuts and cams.
I was maybe a bit rough when saying “beginner”, I’m probably should have said “people with little outdoor-climbing experience”, sorry about that.
But, if you care what others at the gym think (you shouldn’t, just let your climbing speak for itself), it’s definitely a thing that people with their chalk bag attached to their harness with a carabiner (even worse, a safety carabiner), are quickly assumed to be beginners. At least it looks like they’ve done little or no outdoor climbing. But again: Don’t give a shit what people think, just have fun climbing :)
I’m pretty sure there isn’t an indoor climbing gym in 100 miles of me.
Just a belt I think. That guy is a big-time freeclimber
He’s actually known for free soloing.
This is a well known picture of Alex Honnold free-soloing the route. Free-soloing means he is climbing without a rope. He has a chalk bag on a belt, but no harness or rope. There is a documentary that features this called “Free Solo”, if you could imagine. It’s worth a watch if you don’t have anything pressing going on.
Is this the guy with the brain defect who doesn’t know what fear is.
if you don’t have anything pressing going on
Gonna go out on a ledge here and say it’s worth a watch regardless. It won an Oscar for best doc as well as a bunch of other awards. IMO it’s easily one of the top 5 docs of the last decade.
Very stressful to watch for some though. My wife loved it, but her hands were dripping with sweat from stress throughout most of the movie
When I say I’m not afraid of heights; what I really mean is that I’m not abnormally afraid of heights.
*bonus edit: the legendary Dan Osmond. Died not long after, when a rope snapped. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCByLWtM7y4
Misread:
The legendary Dan Osmond who died not long after his rope snapped.
Two meanings. Sharing a goal…
The fatal jump
Is it really as steep as shown in the picture? The trees seem to lean a little bit to the left.
Either way. Hell no.
It’s the sheer face of half dome. It may not be exactly 90° upright but it basically is.
Oh you’re right. If I tilt my laptop so that the horizon is flat, it’s not as steep. (but still… too steep for me.)
See the pic somebody else linked. The horizon is not flat in that area :)
Please mark this NSFL.
Just by looking at this I have a panic attack. Fuck this shit.
Same. Yikes.
Hard pass
Fun fact, Alex said in an interview that this is a picture of him having a panic attack. Just shaking and desperately trying to keep calm as adrenaline pours through his system.
Didn’t know that he was able to have panic attacks at all. Something to do with his amygdala or something. Good to know that he’s only human, I was deeply moved after watching him in Free Solo.
Is it this picture or this ledge? I believe his half dome assent was scary because he wasn’t fully prepared. However this specific picture was taken afterwards.
