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So sick!! Watching this kinda thing absolutely fires me up to get on ropes more and push myself mentally to lead! Tom’s coaching here and this process was phenomenal. So patient and positive! Loved this 👊

Phenomenal climb! Well done!

Very well done mike, E1 is a great achievement!

Mike, how do you feel about the Vapor Vs?

tom needs the neox 🤣 14:58

huuuuge thanks for the 25% off the shop !! finally getting more friends

Wow Mike! You're doing it! You are becoming a climber!!!

I could relate to this, especially the screaming 😆 Great job Mike! Super inspiring.

Congrats mike! great send and good hard climbing:)

I think you would make a great Watson :D enjoying your content keep it up! cheers

Urgh, I fricken HATE midges!

Great video, love hearing the inner monologue and Tom's experience on how to deal with the self doubt. Totally agree too that I've had more fulfilment supporting friends up their projects than me getting up my own! Already can't wait to see whatever your next video is 😊

Way to challenge yourself! Seeing you overcome that fear and conquer the climb was inspiring!

Animal!

Good job Mike!

can someone explain this belay technique to me: @14:54

That was amazing Mike.....I'm truly inspired. The iron will that you have is something to respect. Cheers!

Mike, I've been watching you for years and love everything you do. Watching this video was one of the first times I've been nervous for you, I love climbing and struggle with the mental challenges all the time. It's so reassuring being able to watch someone else go through the process. Literally loved this video.

Left unconquerable is bloody hard well in!!

Awesome video! Was so damn proud of you at the end! Tom is just such a likable legend. Cheers man big up.

Call me a normie, but Magnus collab when? XD

27:27 Hell yeah.

It's interesting because his athletic background seems perfect for climbing. Great endurance, mental toughness, strength, flexibility, explosiveness, and well balanced.

Is screaming a thing in climbing? It always seems a bit weird when Mike frustration screams, I feel like I haven’t seen much climb screaming ha. I fully support the happy scream at the top of course!

Fantastic content as always! I must say, I am a tad jealous of your climbing escapades

Great vid. First E1s don't get much better than that one

Wearing a helmet never sucks Mike! Awesome job out there!

A little more explanation on the grading, LU is E1 5b. Shows how scary and hard it is. E1 on its own is useless. Top progress though and jealous of your pro level coaching.

Great video! Gutted the Wild Country website won't ship to the UK, so I can't use the discount.

Congratulations for making it !! Super nice and motivating to see !

14:58 What is this belay device ?

I'm already scared when climbing lead, bolted lines, so trad climbing must be really something

What a nice video. I will do a hard sport route (for my abilities) tomorrow and I am already nervous about the mental game. I have the exact same feeling right before I start: why am I doing this, this is not fun, I could just go bouldering in a nice gym.... 😅

Great video, Mike! Awesome music choice at the end and GREAT shots of that fighting spirit man... Been following your stuff for a while and this is, hands down, my favourite video you made :) Can't wait to see what's next!

I love these videos even though I’ve never climbed anything more difficult than a ladder. I’m not a fan of mid roll ads, but understand that they are a necessary evil. I just wish you’d put in a little extra effort to make sure the ads don’t interrupt someone in mid sentence.

Great video! Wildcountry aren't currently shipping to the UK, so your wonderful 25% off code is useless for us Brits, how strange

Hey Mike, as a (trad) climber and multipitch instructor, great video :) Though I must say, I'm a bit disappointed in Tom's belaying. There are numerous occasions where he lets go of the brake strand of the grigri, or even holds the device in what we call a "death grip", which are both big no-no's. I really expected something better from a pro climber with such a exemplary function to others. And to be fair, other pro climbers (like Adam Ondra) do the same, but that doesn't excuse this poor practice. Multiple (near) accidents have been recorded due to people belaying like this

Tom's comments at the end sum up how awesome this video is; just a dude really pushing himself is awesome to see no matter the grade, cheers!

This is massively inspiring, honestly. Amazing video! And of course, always love to see either of the wide boyz.

Congratulations 🎉 that was awesome!

The more trad you do the better you will understand / get a feel for the grading. It seeming a little nebulous at the beginning works to it's favour in many ways in that it helps discourage you from biting off more than you can chew (and that's important for trad because the consequences can be life threatening). Also a lot of Birtish trad is not face climbing, it's weird & awkward and the system needs to reflect how committing climbs are without relying solely on objective technical grades. "Extreme" grades started out as "Extremely Severe" but nowadays people just use the shorthand, and the whole system is more or less a continuation of the old system used to describe the diffculty for any route up a mountain (including hikes & scrambles).

The story telling on this channel just gets better and better! Great vid!

Amazing

You can clearly hear Mikes stress levels at 14:58

Tom made me nervous too, when he started gensticulating and took his hand of the breaking side of the rope. 🤔

Aw mate I'm so so happy for you. I started climbing in the same month you posted your first climbing video and it's been spooky how we have had a parallel journey throughout the whole time, from bouldering, to sport, learning trad, being scared, getting plateaued and trying to grasp the mental sides etc. even down to the similar grades through the whole time. It's been an amazing journey to watch and I've never missed a video. To see this though has been absolutely epic and even emotional when I properly feel what it meant to you on the top out. You've absolutely inspired me to push myself on my next sessions later this week and beyond. Well well done mate it's your best video for me so far and a true achievement and step in climbing. Amazing ❤

What a video, loved it, and shockingly emotional at the end. I see so many comments that echo the statement , but seeing someone at a similar point in their climbing journey to myself is really inspiring

Can we collectively nip this "UK trad grades sensationalism" in the bud? It's often explained totally wrong and without nuance. COMPARITIVELY to other scales it doesn't necessarily convert, and often can seem silly. Also remember it only works concerning an onight (unless above, what, E5?) and its inception stems from hillwalking/scrambling pre-1900 when Diff WAS difficult. You want it boiled down? It's all about how hard is the the climbing vs how consequencial a mistake might be. Each adjective grade has a tech grade that fits along side it. Sliding scale, grade goes up accordingly. There is of course more nuance than this but that's it in a nutshell

Wow Mike that was a special video and performance. From someone who gets scared indoor lead, this was super inspiring to watch. Mega psyched...

I come from skating and this is the exact reason why i love it so much and why climbing is also so amazing. also i have never seen an actual youtuber respond to all of his comments and i think that is brilliant.