Ladders are about my speed as well.

well, ill guess we are 4 now

"but I got down the fastest, and it only took 3 months before the casts came off...."

…even scarier that it was a bungalow. Those things really mess with your perception of how high up you actually are, like ‘Am I technically on the second floor now?’

You should have seen how fast I climbed the stairs to watch Naruto. That was during my prime.

Technically its thousands of shots. One frame captured every few seconds. I you slowed it down to real time, it would be a series of still images.

Simon Simon Thats literally every video at any fps if you slow it down enough but I get your point.

@@simonsimon9880 Yes, one frame per second actually

this is simply mindblowing. it goes on forever and ever... an amazing feat

@@martins3183 Awesome suggestion!! That was great.

Yeah, I thought they appeared like crabs running up a tree

49 days?? Try 18months first ascent of the nose

More like ants

@@petersoutar2576 you’re wrong, Warren Harding was first ascent and took 45 days of climbing The time in between actual climbing doesn’t count

@@petersoutar2576 it took 18 months for the first climb of the Dawn Wall, not the nose

A week would be on the long end. 3-5 days is probably more common.

I guess you are trying to build up their feat, but you reaching 😅

@@gamma9141 It would be impossible to "build up" their feat. The feat is already at the tip top.

do people spend a night on the ropes or something?

@@NecroxProduction they carry up portable ledge and camp out for a week

I've been on that big hunk of rock and this video does a great job of putting it in perspective. They look like ants climbing a rock. I'm not a climber either, but you can hike up to the top and take a climbing class at the base, which is what we did.

You need to watch Free Solo

@@OneShot_WOLF Oh I have dozens of times. When it first came out, I almost went to see it in an IMAX theatre. I decided not to at the last minute then ended up buying it on AppleTV. It freaks me out watching it on a 42" TV. I'd have needed O2 if I'd seen it in IMAX size!

If you can ever make it out to Yosemite, please make the trip. It is incredibly beautiful and you can park on the side of the road and have your lunch next to El Cap, bring binoculars you never know if you'll see climbers.

I agree about gaining a sense of the scale from this video. Even watching a climber in person doesn’t give you the same comprehension that this video does. Because you’re able to “visually digest” the ascent within 2.5 minutes, you’re able to track the scale of the human vs the rock face.

I completely agree! It was beautiful and amazing ohhh bonus on seeing the cracks and route so easily from this perspective

3,000 feet is a small hill not comparable

@@tayosmallwood2416 It's the same elevation as this cliff face so why is it not comparable?

@Transiens That was a professional mountain runner (some of the fittest people in the world, the current Ben Nevis race record holder has ran a marathon in around 2 hours 15 minutes), most "ordinary hikers" will take 3-4 hours to just get to the top of Ben Nevis and around 2-3 hours to descend.

@@tayosmallwood2416 do you think before you type?

@@tayosmallwood2416 3000ft is not comparable to 3000ft? Interesting…

What are you referring to when you say cockpit instrument shot?

@@henrycooper7930 the movie "Airplane!" There is a gag where they have a shot of the plane's instruments, and start panning to show more and more instruments and dials and buttons, and it just keeps panning far further than could possibly be realistic, and keeps going. Pretty funny gag. So the cliff shot here just seems to keep panning up more and more, more than seems possible.

Roger!

@@0anant0 What's your vector, Victor?

Also the opening shot of Spaceball I (an 11 kilometer long starship) in the movie "Spaceballs."

Oh god did he lose it climbing? I was just wondering how often that must happen 😳

@@Leto_0 He lost it using a table saw.

Alex free soloed it, but ig he has also free climbed it so not wrong

@@andrewmitchell5807 Alex did not free solo "The Nose" he soloed "Freerider". He only free soloed some of the pitches of it.

@@FelixIsGood from that perspective, the comment we're replying to is just totally wrong. Honnold never free climbed the nose

Like ants man haha

Brad Gobright?

@@funkylosik yea :(

...on blue cheese.

Derick Zoolander: “what is this? A rock climb for ants?!?”

The thing is, Free Solo was more about Alex Honnold character study. The documentary makers were very clear in setting that out. So the camera/video crew (Jimmy Chen) purposefully shot the climb with closed in shots as opposed to a video like this, which was only a time lapse. Free Solo is still a magnificent piece of work and to this day, one i still struggle watching without pause because my palms and soles just sweat watching it, even knowing it turns out fine. Truly one of mankind's greatest achievements and will forever be in the history books.

Free solo gave a much much better perspective of what the climb is like though. this wide angle zoomed out view doesnt give any gravity to what they are actually doing because you lose the intimacy with the wall. it just looks like a boring climb because we dont really see the pitches and angles they have to negotiate. free solo did have wide zoomed out shots of the climb, maybe you just forgot or didnt pay attention??

@@orion7741 yeah, there were a couple of zoomed out shots but not enough and not properly done (zoomed out drone shots, for example) IMO. Bought the digital version but haven't watched it again for that reason though. That and the annoying repeated shots of the camera guy looking away and biting his nails. Oh, and the annoying gold digger girlfriend.

Not sure I'd say that was a problem - they're completely different types of footage.

Also, for anyone reading who isn't clear on this point, the climb recorded in this video was done with ropes and anchors, you can even see them using them to pendulum between sections of the route at least twice. They set it, probably from the top down, and then left it all in place and did this same route 3 times that week (May 30 to June 6, 2018). Very few climbers could even afford to do that, it's thousands of dollars worth of gear.

When the spiders stop they’re chalking up for the next moves.

Eh, I think people always said that and yet there's always someone who challenges it pretty quickly.

No, this one will stand for a while. It felt like the entire climbing community breathed a sign of "ok, can we stop this please" when they finally broke the 2 hour mark. Make no mistake, this isn't just about athleticism. They took way bigger risks in this, than Honnold took on Freerider. If I had to pick one to be repeated first, it would be soloing Freerider.

@@simonsimon9880 Genuinely curious because I dom't know but what were the bigger risks here?

@@drdre4397 when you're simul-climbing (no fixed belay, both climbers moving with any number of pieces of protection between them), your speed is dictated both by how fast both climbers move, but also by how often you stop to place or remove pro. So, when you're trying to cover 3600 ft in under 2 hours, you're both pushing your body to its limit in how fast you can cover ground, AND shaving out all but the bare minimum of safety measures (and, opinions on what counts as the "bare minimum" will vary wildly)! Certainly, Alex Honnold has said that he felt like he took WAY bigger risks setting this speed record, than he did in soloing Freerider (in the movie Free Solo). The slow, methodical climbing, even without a rope, allowed him the time to put more care into his risk assessment process, than the complete balls-to-the-wall madness of the speed climbing, often in situations where the rope would have been of very little use anyways. In short, it's really hard to see where someone might shave more time off the route, without essentially just speed- free soloing it. It could certainly happen one day, but I wouldn't count on it.

They're not free soloing so fear of heights isn't really a factor .. they're secure the entire way

@@yaboyvickk5635 Speed climbing El Cap at this level involves a lot of risk. There is continuous potential for huge falls. It is a trade-off of security against speed.

@@yaboyvickk5635 They are not "secure the entire way", silly. In fact in a lot of places a fall would have been lethal.

The angles they had were gutwrenching enough, seeing a perspective like this on free solo would probably have made me physically sick.

Watch the full documentary. Its worth watching it

Santiago Salcedo I saw it when it premiered. Agreed it’s a good one.

not likely. the framerate on these timelapses isn't the same. Its not like taking a normal video and speeding it up. They take one frame every few seconds or few minutes to make these kind of time lapses.

@@pinkyfull awesome thanks for the explananation !

@@santiagosalcedo7909 where can i find it?

Was gonna comment the same thing

it wouldnt have been difficult to film at all , they arent going fast up the wall, haven't u ever used a camera?

@@MegaCharns LMAO. That's adorable! You are either a child, a troll or both

I thought they looked like a pair of ants or spiderlings too🤣

I also thought of ants and how small we are

Nah, the difference between ants and humans is far more massive than the difference between humans and blue whales (the world's largest species.)

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Which other species are we ants to?

Watch it on reel rock 14. It's badass.

Warren Harding and Dean Caldwell were the first to climb the Dawn Wall

Are you a koala?

They are climbing 25 feet per minute for two hours! Sounds harder than a marathon to me.

ironically you're more likely to die doing a 100mph wheelie...

you nailed it. i would add mental ability too. it is Human Potential at its finest.

I know it's a joke, but flat you could walk it in less than 15 minutes

I'm sure Adam Ondra might have a word or two to say about that

I think they do actually. I once read that fruit flies perceive time like 5 times slower because their brains are smaller.

Expect at least a generation. Like Bob Beamon with his long jump.

For ever, I hope. They were arguably taking way bigger risks than anything Honnold did on freerider.

@@simonsimon9880 you think so? I mean, alex's chance of dying was a lot higher in free solo, no? I am total noob, really asking out of curiosity

Probably won't stand for a long time. Brad Gobright and his partner put up a time of 2:19:44 and previously held the record, so Honnold and Caldwell aren't aliens from another planet or anything. If Gobright were still alive, he could probably challenge it. Still, there are few persons in the world who have the stamina, climbing skill, and guts (or insanity) to make a go at that record, and then you need two such persons to form a team.

@@simonsimon9880 wrong

I'd take that bet. The other two records have a ton of variables. This is just a big moment in climbing's progression. We're already seeing that a lot more people will be able to physically, and inevitably some of them will like big walls.

@@kbar9477 I’m sure you know much better than I do so maybe it can be. I was just trying to say how impressive this is and assumed it was a record that would be virtually impossible to best. Maybe that’s not the case; which sure is saying something!

​@@rm1133 Nobody before or in their generation could do this, which makes it amazing. It's just there are so many strong kids on the way up it'd be too risky to bet against them. Things are gonna get crazy.

Alex and Tommy set the two previous records 2 days and 7 days prior, respectively. Only this time did they break the 2-hour mark so it seems unlikely they'll repeat. It's a lot of work to set all that safety (ropes, anchors etc.) ahead of time. It also cutters the route for all the other climbers setting their own protection. So you may well be right that nobody goes to the trouble to break this record any time soon.

It sounded like they were using still images at 1fps to make this time-lapse, so all you'd have to do its keep the climbers in frame.

It was every technique in the book. Mostly solo aid and rope solo/similclimbing. Whatever is fastest!

I agree. It's very confusing, and there doesn't seem to be any mention of it in the video. It should be with ropes but I can't see them on the walls. I will have to check the full documentary for better view of the climb, appreciate real speed effort and difficulty of the rocks.