A lot of armchair advice from people scared of ascenders magically popping off here. A biner through the eyelet is required for traversing as the ascender can twist off. This will not happen in vertical climbing. It doesn't cost much time to put the biner, so why not, however it's not a big mistake that these guys should be lampooned for. Black Diamond instructions say the same. I've been working on ropes for 15 years and have climbed many big walls, and I can tell you that I have only seen one jumar pop off, when i was traversing and it twisted off. Tying knots every 15 feet as one person suggested is ridiculous, there has to be some allowance for speed if you don;t want to be on El Cap for 10 days like a gumby.
Better to clip a biner around the rope on the top of the jumar to truly make it impossible for it to come off. It’s certainly possible for both jumars to come off the rope at the same time.
Such a poor example of Big walling and full of dangerous errors, such a surprise from Epic TV as their videos are normally so good. Better off asking Andy Kirkpatrick or some one with similar experience to do a series on big walling. I just hope no body tries to emulate what they saw on the video.
Pretty unsafe ascending style. Not the climbers fault. He should have had a grigri on and pull the slack out as he went up... or tie loops of knots in every 15' or so. :/ *sigh* I get that this was probably a lower angle slab that was easy but... Shouldn't be putting vids out there of poor technique. Come on ETV.... @ 7:25 you can see he'd deck if he accidently unclipped them both. 35-40' up?
A lot of armchair advice from people scared of ascenders magically popping off here. A biner through the eyelet is required for traversing as the ascender can twist off. This will not happen in vertical climbing. It doesn't cost much time to put the biner, so why not, however it's not a big mistake that these guys should be lampooned for. Black Diamond instructions say the same. I've been working on ropes for 15 years and have climbed many big walls, and I can tell you that I have only seen one jumar pop off, when i was traversing and it twisted off. Tying knots every 15 feet as one person suggested is ridiculous, there has to be some allowance for speed if you don;t want to be on El Cap for 10 days like a gumby.
Please tie a back up when ascending it is definitely possible to pop both ascenders at once.
Agree 100%
Better to clip a biner around the rope on the top of the jumar to truly make it impossible for it to come off. It’s certainly possible for both jumars to come off the rope at the same time.
4:35 EPIC 😂👍
Superb VIDEO QUALITY great job 😊👍
this is not superb it is chaos - not to know how to jumar without backup
do you remember stefan glowacz in "into the light" where his jumar opened and he nearly fell to death? I would definitely go for a back up
Good ~~~👍
interestin unique vibe
Did Yannic climb without a harness?
Such a poor example of Big walling and full of dangerous errors, such a surprise from Epic TV as their videos are normally so good. Better off asking Andy Kirkpatrick or some one with similar experience to do a series on big walling. I just hope no body tries to emulate what they saw on the video.
Dude thought he’ll climb v11 on his first trip lol
Pretty unsafe ascending style. Not the climbers fault. He should have had a grigri on and pull the slack out as he went up... or tie loops of knots in every 15' or so. :/ *sigh* I get that this was probably a lower angle slab that was easy but... Shouldn't be putting vids out there of poor technique. Come on ETV.... @ 7:25 you can see he'd deck if he accidently unclipped them both. 35-40' up?
Nonsense, nobody ever got up El Cap in a reasonable time tying knots every 15ft in their rope.
@@MrChrisbevins This guy was clearly a first timer... and was shaking and noticeably nervous.
How not to big wall
If you want to climb ropes, you bring srt gear
Just gotta dress like jimmy hendrix and the rest will come to you
Just gotta dress like jimmy hendrix and the rest will come to you
Can confirm
yep - 😁unusal for swiss climbers