Arc'teryx Presents: Ground Up
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- Опубликовано: 11 фев 2025
- In an era where many climbers are using fixed ropes and sport-climbing tactics to free El Cap, climbers like Amity Warme and Brent Barghahn are choosing to keep adventure alive. Going ground up, Amity and Brent pull off a free ascent of the Pineapple Express variation of El Niño (5.13b/c) over eight days, battling variable conditions, friable rock, and, for Amity, a serious finger injury.
This documentary captures the tenacity, grit, and performance mindset required to go ground up on a free ascent of El Capitan.
Featuring: Amity Warme and Brent Barghahn
Director: Chris Alstrin
That fighting mentality of Amity is so ridiculously inspiring!
Brent and Amity are two of the most inspiring climbers to me atm, both incredibly accomplished and unique in their approach. Well deserved film!
Thanks so much for the kind words!
One of the best "pure climbing" videos I've seen. You feel every bit of the route, great commentary, great editing.
Thank you!!
Climbing has reached a new apex. It's amazing to watch the level of athleticism and dedication necessary to free climb the east face of the Captain. Back in '87, I think I was the 2nd or 3rd guy to solo aid the Zodiac; and I was looking at potential free route possibilities nearby. Way over my head, but I could see that someday it'll be done. Here we are, and to watch it in HD, along with the GoPro bloggers is truly a treat. Props to Amity and Brent, along with the crew - just excellent!!
Thank you!
you must be new to climbing, i did a 23 A plus .01 last season. that was a real climb.
I was breathing through this with Amity! What an inspiration she is.
🙏🙏
It was so much fun to work the post audio on this film. Thank you Arc' Teryx and and Alstrin Films!
What’s the intro background beat? I love it
@@kostistau I can try to look. We license a bunch of music for these things, so it is hard to tell when the client picks them out
So cool to see this finally! We watched you guys through the binocs last fall and were rooting for you.
What date were they climbing?
being compared to Jerzy Kukuczka by Honnold is like getting a giga chad seal of approval achievement. Well deserved!
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Watching these incredible climbers help me with my own personal issues. I have found my passion in playing washtub bass, however, it is a physically & mentally demanding 1 string instrument to play musically, and in tune, for long periods of time on a professional stage. Although I cannot see myself ever climbing a sheer wall of granite, I am inspired to musical greatness by watching a feat that looks nearly impossible for a human. Thanks to Amity and Brent for your hard work and dedication to your climbing passion, and to Chris & entire production crew for this wonderful video to enjoy, and learn from!
Chris, rad video. Well done and amazing climbing from Amity and Brent. I only dreamt of being that badass. Now I’m too old.
Great film! Amity and Brent (and Amity's husband) are just lovely people, I got to climb with them for a day in AZ a couple months after they sent this and they were so nice. Amity was making 5.13 look easy with only 9 fingers (the one she mentions in this film was still healing). Other than the choss El Nino looks like a pretty stellar route!
Thanks Nick!
I’ve been climbing for 48 years and I have NEVER seen someone try as hard as Amity did. Astonishing.
lies
I met Amity at the Climb Moab climbing gym. She notice my A2 pulley splint and chatted me up. Turns out she did this route with an A2 pulley in complete tatters. Props girl, that's hardcore
Hope it's doing better now!
Such an impressive, sustained effort and display of grit, and so inspiring. Props to the camera and audio crew, too.
19:36 this rad audio and visuals were so good. I felt that “ok” self talk because that is exactly what I say out loud to myself. (I am on 5.8s though hahaha)
Gotta cheer for myself sometimes! 😆
My climbing days are behind me but the inspiration I get from these guys lasts a life time
Great film! Alex Honnold fell many times at the wet section on his ascent with Brad Gobright(rip). I was shooting the bottom section through the Galapagos pitch. Congratulations!
Thanks so much!
Hands and feet drenched! What a sick route and send, nice work!
It’s incredible watching these two. I hope they understand that they are inspiring thousands of people to better themselves. Awesome content thank you for sharing.
Thank you so much!
That was intense and exciting to watch. Well done to everyone involved in filming and story telling. Amity and Brent, legends!!
Thank you!
Climbed a lot as a kid, still love watching current videos
It’s VERY helpful to have Lynn Hill & Alex both hype you up in a video
Great work, epic climbing
Bravo 👏🏻👏🏻
This was well made. So many aspects of this. I greatly appreciated the camera work. Nice work.
Thanks! Love all the videos
Alright I’m buying more arcteryx stuff
😂😂😂
Thank you so much for sharing all of the mental effort in such amazing detail! Completely absorbed me! Great film and certainly has me psyched! 🎉
Thanks so much!
Very cool to see these guys give it all they got and persevere
This film is amazing. Very well done to Amity, Brent, and the video team!!
Thanks so much!
Such incredibly inspiring efforts throughout and great storytelling! Love seeing some of the non-crux pitches as well which aren't always of stellar quality.
First time I had this impression to be part of the action.
Crux pitch sequence is amazing, listening to your breath was so immersive.
Thank you both for sharing this magical journey
Thanks so much!
Great adventure, so inspiring! Thanks.
Awesome... I am not one for heights any more, so you had me on tenterhooks the whole way through this video till you reached the top - congratulations on a truly remarkable achievement!
She climbed that with a torn ligament in one of her fingers. That’s insane. Such a badass. I hope she recovered from her injury.
Thank you! It is fully recovered and back to action now!
That was so inspiring. Kickass.
Phenomenal climbers, amazing production work!
Wow!! The perseverance, positive self talk, and great partnership is the most impressive aspect of this ascent.
Thank you!
Absolutely awesome story, I felt every emotion throughout.
That was an amazing video, thank you!
Love watching this sort of stuff. The effort going in is impressive, as is the skill 🙂
What a great film!
This was one of the best documented climb experience I’ve seen. About partners especially. And seeing a 5.12 for what it is fukin hard
The partnership is so important! Glad it came through in the film.
Damn, I'm also crying ar 33:50... What a great vid about shared climbing commitment and pleasure !!!!
Thank you!
Superbe video. Merci pour les sous titres en français !
this is a very nice one, pure inspiration and motivation
Excellent film. Enjoyed it!!
Damn, that is proper fight spirit.
Monumental inspiration!🔥
Hardcore climbing amazing stuff as I set in my office wishing I was still on rock climbing getting old sucks. But this takes me back.
Thanks for inspiring me to work harder and find a way to get it done. That was awesome!
Good gracious this girl goes deep.
Love the climbing scenes with only the original audio! Nice vid.
Amity is so bad ass! I still use her and Tyler's climb of Golden Gate as my "work out" video. Even if I don't want to do the work out her stoke gets me though it!
incredible skills on both climbers, bravo
compelling content and well-told! (and I'm admittedly jaded).
You're my climbing role models. Awesome film. Better than The Dawn Wall? Thanks for the inspiration.
awesome film 💛
i think they are both not just amazing climbers but also really great humans. How there was no ego fights, supporting each other, no difficult characters. I think many men in the climbing world with their lacking empathy and who are difficult to work with are tolerated and endorsed. then you see those both and realize you know it doesn't have to be toxic
Cool video. Great place.
Awesome!
Tremendo video inspirador y hermoso! 🙏🏼
This is awesome and inspiring! 💪 ❤
18:54 You can hear Amity’s heartbeat through her lapel mic
that is so cool, great catch
Wow, amazing stuff...great 'stick-to-it'-iveness...if that is a word :)
insane! 🔥💪🏻
Amazing.
23:24 That was scrappy, not my beta. Epic roof pull!
Great film, thnks
For one moment in eternity, you've really lived...
LETS GO!
So freakin cool!
that knee bar.... whoa!
just a random observation but i love how Amity goes from having no Arc'teryx sticker on her helmet, to having one by the end of the video...😂
you can see me putting it on her helmet before they start the push!
Anyone else hear her heartbeat at 19:00 CRAZYYY!
so cool.
inspiring
She is so strong and fights so hard
The microphone picking up Amity's heartbeat from 16:30 onwards!!
That was 100% intentional. ;). Glad you picked it out
@@MonumentSoundStudio such a visceral representation of the moment. Well done.
@@MonumentSoundStudioawesome job
dope
Superb
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Sick. Love to see the style. Keep it El Capitan and not El RAPitan.
So cool and how do you do this itlooks really tough and is your a2 pully gone
torn pulley gnarly stuff, adrenaline must be shooting to moon
Where can I find the keychain tempature/humidity gauge @ 10:04 ? Thanks!
Nice work 👍anyone know , if a second ascent has been done on Wyoming Sheep Ranch?
I love mountaineering and skiing and technical climbing...... But would prefer a snow cave to a porta-ledge any day. Big wall doesn't have enough variation.
The cameraperson is the actual GOAT here climbing above them 😆
The one and only Chris Alstrin
Everyone likes Saaaaatziki I guess :DD
17:27 Am I hearing heartbeat sounds?
100% by design, but yes!
Why was everything pre clipped?
I was wondering about that too. For a “ground up” ascent. Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure the style was done as it was portrayed, but I’m curious why the quick draws were pre-placed.
@@johngo6283 Many of the crux pitches, we did not send on the first attempt. Once we hung the draws on the first lead attempt, we didn't take them down for subsequent redpoint attempts. All trad gear was cleaned and replaced on each attempt.
@@amity-warme Great, thanks for that explanation. 👍
That is some Crazy Shit.....
17:45 plus 45 seconds. My neighbors probably think I was watching porn. 😂😂
I had to turn it down!!! 😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂 I think about that every time I watch a climbing video
15:19 and 17:30 are at the same pitch/moves? Is there something I don’t get ?
@@MikleRe one of the prep days, they onsighted all the pitches up to Big Sur (the first major ledge) and hauled the 175lbs of water (for 3 people, for the 8 days). Then when they were on the pitch, they reclimbed those pitches (and hauled the 175lbs of gear, food, camera gear/batteries, and the clutch sleep socks 🤣). Hard to capture all the nuances in a film.. the focus was on keeping things moving and trying to avoid being overly technical. I bet Brent has a write up on his blog!
Are they both leading each pitch?
Leading each crux pitch and swapping leads on 5.12 and under. Good question!
full disclosure: i can't / don't climb 5.12; i climb moderate trad, and have never drilled a bolt. a few thoughts -
all my ascents are ground up
i don't exactly understand why the draws are in place. are they doing multiple attempts at each pitch ?
finally, i realize these folks probably climb for a living, but i'm happy to say i've never climbed with anyone videoing my every move: my approach, my climbing, my eating, my conversations with my climbing partner, and so on. i would argue whether you are amity and brent, or alex h in free solo, or cody townsend in The Fifty . . . . havng someone video your "adventures" changes the game. specifically, it changes the experience. i would say negatively, but perhaps you could argue positively.
All good points. Ground up simply means to start from the ground and get to the top in one push without going back to the ground again. Having someone like myself (the camera guy) videoing their ascent does change things. I wouldn't say it's necessarily a negative, but you would have to ask the climbers this question, does it change their experience? I would argue yes but in what way? I will say in this case it made it more difficult for Amity and Brent because not only did they haul their own gear but they also hauled my gear up the wall as well because I spent the nights on the wall with them. It's obviously a decision the climbers make and not ever climber likes having cameras following them and climbers don't always invite cameras to every adventure. A lot of times they pick and choose what might make for a great story.
@@ChrisAlstrin hey chris. thanks for your thoughtful comment. one point: based on the comments, this film inspired many people, so that's a great thing, and congrats. clearly, we have entered a new world in terms of high quality content for climbers, mt bikers, skiers, etc. all the best -
How do you bring water on the trip ?
How did the cameraman / crew climbed need to see those bts moments
Whats with the hygrometer? Just to see how moist the rock will feel? I've never seen anyone do that
I don’t quite understand what they are doing. At one point, Amity sent a hard pitch, but then descended down it. Wouldn’t she then need to climb it again? Is the point for each climber to get a clean lead on every single pitch?
How are their hands not absolutely fucked from climbing for days?
So, do they or don't they use ropes?