That tripped me out. I couldn't believe he said that.

Luke congrats! That is fantastic news

Congrats man

Congrats

Congrats man! Good dream to chase and accomplish

Well done mate...doesn't matter how long it takes as long as you succeed...again,well done.

Absolutely 100%.

Thanks man! I appreciate that.

Alex Teoli Unless the wind noise from the camera drowns out everything else. Then bring in some music for sure.

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Alex Te

Hate it when you look down and....holy cow it did fall out! Better get something in quick!

Every piece is bomber if you don't whip!

Honest question. I've been climbing indoors on top rope for years and indoor lead for about a year and just got into outdoor sport climbing last month and have never done trad. If you know the gear will come out if you fall then why bother placing it?

@@billy2141 to make yourself feel better, lots of trad climbing is mental, he could have taken the time to find a piece that fit better but for whatever reason didn't

@@billy2141 At that point he’d rather continue on and find a better place to put gear. No point in taking it out though because it’s more of a hassle and it’s better than nothing. There’s a chance it could hold!

That's great though. You have pretty good mental game, dude

hoooly saaame. my hands sweat harder watching videos than actually sending pitches

i wonder if it is the weird camera angle and/or the lack of situational control.

Me too

@Josh Smith a section of climbing between two anchor points, normally taken in turns to lead between two climbers, ‘swinging the lead’ as it’s a lot easier with rope management to do it that way

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Patrick Becerra I believe his exact words were "fuck it"

It wont move it out, if I dont fall

I believed he said, "as long as I don't fall it want came out"

Aye, but he moved directly on to a bomber piece of gear immediately afterwards (The bolt). Sometimes you need something in to give you peace of mind before you tackle a harder section.

Lol i was thinking that to!! That gear was on the lip!!!!

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Uella compatriota! Vorrei vederlo scalare in Dolomiti il ragazzo, nell'ultimo video che ha condiviso si lamenta della roccia 😂 Resta cmq uno molto bravo a scalare e nel tempo é migliorato anche molto nel mettere giù protezioni!

nvomund he anchors, guy belaying him from below follows him up (he belays him from above) and takes the gear out as he goes. Rinse and repeat each pitch.

Thanks Dude, appreciated. In 6 years of posting videos, there has been been a fairly constant critique of my nut placements. While I've fallen maybe 1/2 dozen times, maybe more on nuts, I've never had one blow (yet). That said, it's a critique that I do take to heart, especially seeing how often it comes up. It's Interesting (and educational ... and damn fun) re-watching climbing you've done years in the past. One of the bigger take-a-ways from the Red Rock videos in my opinion has been my lack of appreciation for the fragility of the rock out there. On the flip side of this, I think a few people that watch anything I've posted in the past 2 or 3 years lack an appreciation for just how tough the rock is in the Gunks. Largely, I applied Gunks tactics most of the way up this route, being the style of climbing I knew. In turn, I was slow, inefficient, and in select instances, not as safe as I could have been (nut placements being an example). I'm asked maybe a dozen times a year from newer climbers, "What gear should I buy for "lead" climbing?". My answer to this question is as follows: "When you feel comfortable safely explaining to someone else how to do it, then you'll know enough to know what gear to buy. Until then, the only time you'll be leading is with someone that is explaining it to yourself and they're going to have all the gear you need. This all said, if you're anything like me and every other climber out there, I also know you're not going to listen to this advice, so I'll offer some starters." Despite how comfortable and enjoyable the climbing was after the chimneys, I was fortunate nothing bad happened. In the same vane, aren't we all, because days like this one are when we learn a lot about this thing we do. I learned a hell of lot this day and the more astute may even notice those lessons translated in the climbs I posted after this one.

From perspective of 30 years. I wish when I was a climber that I'd thought about doing line work. It would have been a better fit than the other "career" moves made.

Wow, your right!

The bottom guy doesn't climb, he's feeding the rope through a belay device, just chilling. Only after the lead is done climbing, he starts pulling the rope up through his belay device, and the second will then start moving up.

The correct balance of course, but sometimes we use up lots of energy to get a sort of kind of, maybe piece in., ...when it would have been better to power through. It took me some years to get to this point, or to put two pieces close and then run out longer sections.

Pretty much ;)

It didn't look totally worthless. But the direction of pull was very off.

About 3" below that cam was a bomber nut placement !

Michael Thomas I’m notorious for that lol

It is much different to be on the "sharp end". To have to route find. To have to budget your protection and decide when it makes sense to place a piece and when it makes sense to preserve energy and run out a bit. It's also a challenge to find someone to help teach you to lead.

Both. I didn't use the cordlette and locker in anchor system, but it was visible on my rack, within reach and I just wanted to get something setup quickly before putting together the anchor system I would eventually use. Something I learned doing this climb is the importance of efficiency when doing a climb this long. The epic we made it didn't need to be and part of that reason was our speed (we were stupid slow) and part being unfamiliar with techniques needed. I did something a little different for the anchors at the end of every pitch of this thing. Sometimes, that was demanded, but in hindsight, I had no reason to do so and I could have been 5 times faster at each of these anchors. Did give me a good chance to experiment though, I learned a good bit.