He has one of the boldest trad onsights in history, Nightmayer.

and then he casually takes the biggest whipper you can imagine in Lexicon ;)

Yeah, whats he ever done in Yosemite?😅

They should've edited a smash cut of that in

Yeah, what's all that about?

@@theruffiankj4164 That's his trademark... He said in some interview that he would tie them if he tried to climb something hard :D

They fit so well it makes no difference... other than saving me a minute of tying.. imagine how much time I must have saved in a lifetime! Pity the Blanc not available anymore! Down to last few pairs now!

@@verticalglobe 😂

Not normal for me to answer to posts... but just thought I'd add, I totally didn't run up the top bit, and had a right wobble on the final crack. I'd not worked it much and went up and down a few times before committing but felt I really could have fallen at the final hurdle!

Ah that was totally tongue in cheek! He was absolutely cranking on the trip and did probably more hard routes than I did!

@@verticalglobe I know, but thought I would point it out to those less cognisant of the actualite.🤣

This is a little bit oversimplified, but basically: The E grade refers to the 'severity' of the route, while the '7a' refers to the difficulty of the climbing. So a route could be really severe if there is very little protection, or protection is likely to rip, or there's a big runout (no protection) at the top. This can be the case even on technically easier routes, which is why you can get E4 6bs or something, scary route but easy climbing. Hope that helps (it's oversimplified but hopefully clear).

@@itDTube gotcha! This was incredibly helpful. I appreciate you taking the time to explain

Don't mean to muddy the waters here but the E grade does also take into account the difficulty of the route to some extent, no matter how good the gear is you couldn't have a E1 with french 8a climbing, and the inverse is also true, if the climbing us french 6b+ with no gear at all it shouldn't be given an E grade higher than E4. There are E4's with death falls and easy movement and E4's with good pro and harder movement. The E grade is an amalgamation of the difficulty and the hardness of the route, and the british technical grade (7A in this case) is the difficulty of the hardest individual move. Meaning an E6 6C might get a higher french grade than a E7 7A, as the british tech grade doesn't account for how many 6C moves in a row there are. Hope this helps :)

​@E H So while this route is E10 7a, the French grade (difficulty of climbing) may not be 7a? Like if the route was all easy moves and one 7a move it might be french 6c, while if every move was 7a it could be french7c?

So after reading all these thoughtful and carefully crafted replies, the short answer is "no, nobody can help you because it is fundamentally incomprehensible!"

shame they tried to drown it out with the background music.

Similar technique to Ondra's screaming, just let the wind carry you up I guess

Apologies but it's not actually a fart. More a gurgling grunt. I was there and have heard it many times in the edit haha

@@volodigital8875 idk. until we get smell verification, its a fart

Speak about sh*tting your pants ...

He tried to stop the body rotating

i was looking for this comment lol...and yes, yes he did

You know you’re trying hard when you fart during a move

the problem was there were no footholds! I thought I'd just pull up and grab the jug... but when it came to it, what I thought was not quite so easy!

Hi David here the filmmaker. The rope you can see was for someone else who was trying the route on the same day. It was on the break after the first crux attached the the thread. We tied it off and moved it so it would impact Steve on the route. The lower camera position was compromised somewhat but because that footage was the send go i felt like leaving it in.

@@volodigital8875 thanks for taking the time to reply! It seems there is a draw connecting that rope to his lead rope? Or is he just clipped into the same piece/thread that’s on that in situ rope? (Great little film by the way!!!!)

​@@DREAPADOIR totally separate my man. Was just hanging around in space. Glad you enjoyed the film and thank you for the kind words.

Hiya David @@volodigital8875 Great film of a superb climber on a wonderful climb. I also thought the same as Domhnall however. I have studied it several times now and Steve's lead rope is deffo in that draw, and as Steve climbs you can see it tugging the draw and moving the other rope. I assume that it would be one of Steve's pieces of pro anyway, it just happened to have the other climbers ropes running through it. It is clear as day though, that Steve's rope IS running through that draw.

It's British sarcasm 😅