Quick tip for any new viewer: don't check the comments before watching! You'll find spoilers for sure... And for those of you who've watched already, thanks for viewing and I hope you liked this story! I'm really psyched for these coming months, and thanks to the patrons who have supported me I'm starting to be able to finance some upcoming film projects properly, and put my full effort into making them as good as I can :-) You all are awesome.

This was the realist climbing video I have ever watched. So much of climbing is about the struggles, the almost sends, the frustration, and this video has them all. Thank you for sharing your journey with us.

KZfaq is filled with sick send videos. But so often the stories of sick almost-send videos are never told. Your story is inspiring and despite the difficulty of route also really relatable and humble. Yet another masterpiece of content from you Emil that also motivates me to get back on my projects and train harder! Keep up the awesome work!

“People conceptualize conditioning in different ways,” he said. “Some think it’s a ladder straight up. Others see plateaus, blockages, ceilings. I see it as a geometric spiraling upward, with each spin of the circle taking you a different distance upward. Some spins may even take you downward, just gathering momentum for the next upswing. Sometimes you will work your fanny off and see very little gain; other times you will amaze yourself and not really know why. Training is training, it all seems to blend together after a while. What is going on inside is just a big puzzle. But my little spiral theory kind of gives it a perspective, don’t you think?”

Emil, your growth in climbing has been one of the more inspiring parts of my journey. I’ve been with you since the first few EKB episodes, and will be with you as far as you take this. I screamed like you screamed when I watched you static the move on the big island. I felt the same joy of movement every moment of this boulder. Your journey has greatly challenged me in what I think is possible for myself as a climber, and my training and effort has grown substantially because of it. And with all the successes, I needed to see the failures, because it’s as much a part of my climbing as it is yours.But there aren’t typically role models showing us the process, all the falls, all the disappointments and setbacks. That’s the non-glamorous side of climbing that typically doesn’t make KZfaq. But you did, and it was brave. And I was taking mental notes the entire video about how your psych and perspective pushed you through failures and how I would in turn need to deal with my failures in the future. I needed to see how many sessions it took, how you dealt with the mental fatigue of falling on the same move or moving on from a problem unsent, or how you were able to appreciate progress that didn’t ultimately end with the goal. This was inspiring. It was educational. And it showed a side of both the climbing process and the climbing journey that are so rare. Thank you for every moment of the journey you’ve posted. I’ll dance around my living room and show all my friends when you send the power of now, and I’ll absolutely lose it when the island finally goes. And I’ll keep cheering no matter how many failures it takes to get there.

I watched a lot of climbing videos and I always felt like videos without sent at the end can’t be as good as videos with sent. You proved me wrong as it was one of the best climbing videos I have seen. Btw: Do you plan to return on these climbs in close future (I mean up to next year)? If so do you have an idea when?

One of your best videos in a long while. But what stood out the most was THE FIRST EVER use of the term "desi meter" I've heard in my life (19:32)

When you watch all of these incredible climbers on KZfaq it seems like they just send it in one go and they are just that good all the time. This video appeals to me much more for not hiding the personal struggle and work that must be there somewhere in the background. Makes me psyched to train harder.

Finding the pure joy in the moves and the moving is what I try to find in every physical activity I do - unexpected ecco - fells good man

Emil is the current best channel for bouldering on the platform and it's not close,. The production, the climbing, the insight into mental game & mindfulness that comes with hard projecting. 10/10 content.

It is so hard for me to sit here and watch the video on a rest day... At least for me you managed to trigger the feeling of being on my projects and the psych trying my hardest! Great video, you cought the joy of hard bouldering on film!

It is the journey not the destination. The people you meet and the memories you make along the way always seem more valuable than actually reaching your goal in the end. Excellent video.

this is a masterpiece! thank you so much for sharing the good and "bad" moments, loved every second of the video!

The vibes on all of your videos are so chill. Love hearing about your journey!

your last few films have been amazing a real step up. Great work

Awesome video Bro! I think it's very cool of you sharing this journey with us and showing all the ups and downs. 👌

Great video! Thank you for sharing this process with us ❤

Wow, gotta say this is one my favorite videos of yours yet! Not only some sick footage of sick moves, but some important lessons learned along the way. Keep it up man, your content just gets better and better!

Really enjoyed that one! Watching you going through the process is truly inspiring. Thank you for that

You're a legend Emil! Major inspiration and loved following the journey from this season and super stoked to see you continue your progression!

insane! the time and energy in the footage and editing is inspirational. the video just makes you dream ! much love

So fricking amazing! Thank you Emil!

This is one of the greatest climbing videos I have ever seen. So relatable, so inspiring and a lot to learn! I am so amped right now. LET'S GOOOO

Great video. The storytelling was on point and I was always on the edge about your sends on the different routes. Well done and good luck and even better skin for your next tries.

Thanks for sharing your story with us. I really dig that currently we all start to be brave enough to share also the bad things and the failures that happen to us yet with an analytical approach to see how they affect us. And I love to hear you allow yourself to calmly accept them and to learn from them. Peace and love

Hey Emil, I’m so happy about this honest masterpice. The feeling to leave a open project is something every true climber knows and it provides a lot to learn from :) hope to see you back in magic wood autumn season an cruch this one :)

Loved the entire video. Especially your insight on the process and the "failing" part. Thank you so much for sharing Emil! ❤️

great film! enjoyed every minute, thanks!

Great great video. Pfiew all the frustration...so familiar to me as well. Good to see how you changed your perspective and found more joy

This was your best video Emil! I really didn't want to check how much of the video I had left. What great storytelling.

Awesome video! Love how it showcases the less spoken about aspects of outdoor projecting 💪

What an incredibly inspiring video for any aspiring climber. Your attempts on Power of now had me at the edge of my seat, and im impressed by your ability to turn seemingly setbacks into a positive. It's easy to get caught up in the send instead of enjoying the journey for what it is

Just a incredible video such sick boulders!!!

Great narrative and message!

Best Bouldering Video since a long time! keep it up!! ... Love that you show the up's and the down's and still keep it funny inbetween :) also videoedditing and sounddesign is on point :D

Beautiful video, thank you for sharing this experience and thoughts of yours with us

Great production and an even better mindset to walk away from this project with. Thank you for sharing!

The vid was a feast for the eyes, and the commentary fed the brain. Awesome!

These longer format storytelling videos are pretty amazing! I'm happy you're finding a healthier way to think about climbing.

Really nice video Emil. Thanks for inspiration :)

Awesome vid man. Keep it up!!

Tumba is a super interesting climb! Awesome video as usual, Emil. Much love from Canada ✌️

This might be one of my favourite videos of yours! Congrats on the progress you've made on all of those boulders! It's so inspiring

The end of this video is beautiful and made me tear up bro. I love seeing other people learn from anger and see the Beauty of the struggle. Raging is fun till it ain’t, no matter what grade you are working on. Congrats on your progression and your accomplishments Emil!

Brabo!!! Nice vid. Nice process. Do never stop doing vids like that, please! ^^

For me, this is the best video you posted ever. The content, the story, your thoughts and reflection. Love it! And even though I climb "just" 7B grades, I still can find many links to what I experience on my boulder projects and during the outdoor season. Thank you for sharing :)

Definitely your best video yet Emil, thanks for taking the time to put this thing together! I'm sure you're already well aware, but progression needs to have some plateaus and can't always be on the upwards trend, but it seems like you managed to get a lot out of the sessions so that's great, and it looks like you'll be crushing those projects really soon. Can't wait to see more of you and Cordi out on the boulders!!!

10/10 video. Really awesome to see you on some of the boulders in brione as well!

It was great to see how excited you got on those outdoor projects! Bummer you didn't send them, but I'm glad you seemed to have fun on them and didn't beat yourself up too much. I think it's important to be able to take a break from pushing your limits and just enjoy climbing whatever. Also, some great music choices that help us feel the stoke. I laughed at 'my circumcised finger' and 'the intense skin-requiring nature' of the Power of Now. All in all, this was my favorite climbing video I've seen in a long time and in my opinion, one of your best ever!

Amazing Vid :D I really enjoyed the way this was Edited and shot. Simply a pleasure to watch and made my day for sure

Great video! I love your attitude. As climbers, we spend a lot of time “failing” so, I started looking at each failed attempt as me getting ever so slightly stronger. Every failure makes you better. Keep it up, Emil!

Well done Emil, you outdone yourself with this one!

great storytelling. your projecting videos are always so inspiring and motivating

Love this story! So many people can relate to that. Everyone allways has high expectations for a trip and when does are not met we are disapointed. But just being able to climb is joy enough. Being healthy and being able to go outdoors is the sickest send of them all

you're a beast and this video was sick thanks for investing so much time into it

What an amazing video!!! Such a beast💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

Best climbing movie in a long time. So real. Trying to climb hard is rarely a smooth path and the level of belief on display to even try these problems is incredibly inspiring.

A really honest and thoughtful way of taking us along with you through the process of attempting those incredibly challenging boulders. Thanks!

what an amazing video. enjoyed tghis more than the recent reel rock. amazing storytelling/editing with philisophical undertones, bittersweet ending putting me right in the feels but a testament to what climbing is all about. perserverance/dissapointment/progression/failing/ and ulitmately success. i love videos like this where i dont know the outcome one of my favorites elements of videomaking

Super enjoyable little documentary you made here, beautiful footage, calm and collected commentary, good vibes despite some setbacks. Just excellent editing, really enjoyed it! Also with the @HardIsEasy cameo and Waterhouse shorts :D

wholesome ass shit right here. the value placed on sending is such a weird mental and emotional battle that climbers face and i think your take is really meaningful.

This video has made me more psyched for the upcoming fall/winter season than anything I've seen this year. Super infectious climbing mentality and I hope these go down for you soon!

Sometimes you are so genuine that i forget how strong and how much courage you have we are different but not at all, i love climbing and my final live purpose what means everithing to me, happiness. Wish that to everyone. Thanks.

I like the fact that you upload videos of your fails not only your sends. Most people only show their achievements whereas reality is full of failures. In those failures is where people really grow. Sharing that process feels very open and natural. Thank you.

man first of all, amazing video, love this docu style cideo of your climbing adventure, this tied your previous videos to a nice coherent story :) and secondly theway you described chagning in mentality to climbing was something i went through earlier this year even though ive only been climbing for less than a year now, focussing on the moves and how they feel rather than achieving or failing the boulder with each go. anyways cant wait to see more videos of your climbing adventures

Videos like this one are exactly why you are my favorite climbing channel!

Keep at it! Love these story driven recap episodes, very intimate.

Just want to say thank you about this video. Very inspiring to see someone this positive shering his difficulties and how he can enjoy the proces of getting over it and learning from it :)

Killed it man! Loving seeing the process.

Great video, thanks for sharing your experience!

you put me on to having Off the Wagon as my life-long goal boulder and I have loved your videos every one I've watched since then. you give me motivation and inspire me to do the things I'm not yet able to do mainly because I don't have a group or my own gear but my desire to climb outdoors have skyrocketed since watching you. thank you for sharing this part of your life with us and giving me something to hope for

The musik was on point! Really enjoyed that honest look. Sometimes when I watch chlimbing videos I feel like a complete failure, bc most videos don´t show much of the progress and the failling that goes into that. I know it´s there, but you don´t see it that much. Thanks for your great content!

That's a really good one !! You had a rough year but you managed to do great stuff

I was thinking about not watching this video today and go straigh on sleep but I'm glad I didn't... This is more than just a good climbing video, it's a fantastic reminder of a really important way of aproaching our climbing journey and life in general... Now I can reflect on that while falling asleep, thank you Emil :)

This was a really great video! Good job

Great video. You climbed really well on that last solid attempt on Power of Now and in the end, that's the most you can ask for when you walk away from a project - knowing that you gave it your best when the door was open. I'm sure that door will open again :D

If I may say, you're strong, we all know that, but your psych is equally there. This inspires me to develop my psych some. Awesome video making too!

great video! thanks for sharing.

Me and my friends get together after work to train and watch climbing videos to get the psyche high. Yours are our favorite! Thank you for this one, really inspiring for our upcomming climbing trip:) Greetings from Chile man!

Great video Emil! One's mentality is just as important a muscle as any others, good to see that you've been training it ;)

Great video Emil. I echo much of what others have said but also love how invested and supportive Cordi is, she seems like a legend.

love seeing the struggle!

Great storytelling and documentation. Know that your life is an inspiration!

Amazing video!! I ended up screaming and cheering you from my couch, such a good effort!! Fun fact: today I finally decided to give up and stop trying my last project so this video perfectly suits my mood, thanks for keeping me psyched!!

It is interesting to me that the boulder is named "power of now". It really fits the climb and the whole video in general. Emil, you just love to climb, just for real, keep doing whatever it is you want to do and you will fokin send it! Just focus and dont stress it!

Was a banger of a video. Mye kuk som ble nevnt ;) Good to see some videos of what 99% of climbing is at your max, failing!

nearly cried on this one :D Nobody gives me a better glimpse into the emotional process than you ! Thanks a lot for that :)

Such a great video! I rarely comment on videos but II really appreciated the insights to your emotions and thoughts. I also loved the philosophical ending and I think that what you said is applicable to any task in life. I have to write a paper in the next two days and it started to really annoy me. But I think with your mindset I might find more enjoyment in that process, too. Really looking forward to what comes next on your channel!!!

Hey Emil, really liked the story telling in this video, kept my scatter brain focused through the whole thing. Great footage as well, I really got a sense of the problems and their cruxs. No where near your level, but I'm working a v9 right now and I feel the same thing when failing on it. I picked a problem that would be hard for me, and that's the consequence, and each time I fail, I feel like I learn something, even if it is just super subtle. I really hope you get to revisit these boulders and get some revenge, and a video, of course. You looked super close on all of them, just a bit of endurance and mental acceptance of the send will probably get you there.

Dang Emil is really really good at almost doing boulders. Kidding of course, great video about the process. Sometimes you think you’ve done the time- that you’ve put in the blood, sweat, and tears prerequisite to doing a climb that’s hard for you. Only then do you see that the boulder still has more to teach you. Excited for the follow up with some inevitable send footy!

For me, this is what climbing (and life) is all about - appreciate the journey

I’m trying to break into 8A+ and have been known to mega session things into the 10s or 20s of session (even though it’s still not that much) and was frustrated for a long time as to why the grade wasn’t happening for me. Something that’s given me peace is understanding that even though I haven’t sent, that I’m good enough to have done the boulder but it just didn’t happen. I think it’s very clear that you’re a plenty good enough climber for all of these boulders :) thanks for sharing this story Emil!

Watching this video 'felt' so good! Not everything in life is sweetness and light. You can only try your best in the presence and adapt to the circumstances. Do what feels good, it will lead to inner contentment and a happier life. Mental lessons were definitively learnt. Thanks for this extended version and taking us along your experiences in life. Music deserves an extra point. Hope to see more Cordi in front of the camera next time, rooting in Italian was powerful ;)

Watched this video after a horrid session # 13 on my current project. I made some exciting progress on my previous session, but today nothing went well at all. The temperature was too hot, I felt weak before I even started on the approach, and the only section of the climb that wasn't baking in the sun felt out of reach as well. Earlier today I felt my psych weaning greatly, and for the first time since I started trying the boulder, the thought of giving up actually crossed my mind. After watching this video, I was reminded that the back and forth struggle of the process is one that we choose for ourselves. We choose that which is out of reach so that we can feel EVERY part of the process, it is the only way to know for certain that we are progressing as climbers. Thanks Emil for this message and for renewing (or at lease mending) my motivation. I'll be heading back out soon.

Emil, i've been a big fan of yours since EK vlog days. It's been a real joy to watch you grow as a climber and person. Hearing you reflecting on your own shortcomings in your recent videos has been very encouraging. I struggle with crimps a lot, far more so than any of my friends (all of us have been climbing for years now) and it often feels like climbing hates me in particular. But sharing your sendless sessions, and moments of frustration/anger/sadness makes it feel like maybe climbing hates everyone a little more equally than I thought (lol), and that makes a big difference to me. Thanks.

I appreciate the reflection. I know exactly which three 14s you'll be sending this coming season 💪.

Great video, thanks.

Never before have I shouted "COME ON" at a youtube video, but here I am now. Awesome vid, you'll get it next time!!!

Great video!! "Faillure" is a curious word to use when the process has given so much space for learning.

This amount of tenacity is inspirational