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  • @MikeBoyd
    @MikeBoyd 11 месяцев назад +542

    thanks for teaching me Pete. I've sure got a lot to learn but damn that was good fun. I'm hooked! Can't wait for the next video 🔥

    • @barrettself4183
      @barrettself4183 11 месяцев назад +5

      love seeing new folk get hooked on the adventure of climbing. Welcome to the club, enjoy your journey

    • @WideBoyz
      @WideBoyz  11 месяцев назад +29

      Had an awesome trip with you Mike, so fun to see the progression and break new barriers 💪 really really cool!!

    • @trinidadcollier9437
      @trinidadcollier9437 11 месяцев назад +1

      I literally pumped my fist when I say this video!!!

    • @petewhittington9399
      @petewhittington9399 11 месяцев назад +2

      I love the fact that your first blue #3 that you said "that's solid" was actually placed upside down (as best practise would say outer lobes go down), but then every other horizontal cam placement in the video was done properly (in fact, you pulled the blue out and flipped it a few minutes later in the video to get it correct). So, great coaching, Pete, and great application Mike!

    • @yoyoyo761
      @yoyoyo761 11 месяцев назад

      Certified Wall Boyd.

  • @perplexedon9834
    @perplexedon9834 11 месяцев назад +95

    As always great respect to Pete for his skills teaching people. The rappeling looked by the books, the. Follow, follow placing gear, then lead sequence is a great way to build someone into trad, and Pete seemed really attentive to working with Mike as an individual notice climber. 10/10 great guy, great guide, and great teacher. The kind of stuff I aspire to when taking new folks out.
    I see super elite climbers like Ondra letting go of the brake strand, being pretty sloppy when teaching new climbers, skipping helmets, etc. I'm a medical student and my peers and I often refelect that the expert researchers and doctors in our field aren't always the best at teaching and giving lectures. Its rare for someone to be at the elite level in anything while also keeping that connection to what it is like to be a learner. Requires a lot of empathy and consideration. One of the reasons why I think teacjers should actually be trained more and paid more. The skillset of being both very proficient in content and havingb good teaching skills is hard and requires a lot of learning. I think teaching from 5year olds to 50 years olds should be a profession with just as much prestige and rigourous accreditation as being a doctor.
    Anyway, Pete is the real deal.

    • @Nyitemare
      @Nyitemare 11 месяцев назад +2

      Great read

  • @tinu96
    @tinu96 11 месяцев назад +29

    One of the things I like best about Pete instructing, which highlights his expertise, is how well he is able to gauge the difficulty that people are able to handle. Every one of these videos seems like he absolutely nails the appropriate difficulty for the abilities of the person learning.

  • @GTkoze
    @GTkoze 10 месяцев назад +2

    Pete is a national treasure! Proud to be British like him

  • @Rockmaster867
    @Rockmaster867 11 месяцев назад +49

    I saw Mikes video already, so seeing Petes perspective was really fun :)
    Well done guiding Mike through the process. Mike is a beast when it comes down to it!

    • @boogaloo4640
      @boogaloo4640 11 месяцев назад +4

      I was rather disppointed with Mike's video tbh. I thought Pete got a bit of a raw deal in the edit. Pretty much a bit part player

  • @wereboarder2009
    @wereboarder2009 11 месяцев назад +3

    I didn't realize Toby and Mike were both on this trip learning the ropes. A very pleasant surprise.

  • @bandman7600
    @bandman7600 11 месяцев назад +14

    This was an wonderfully done video! I am from Mike's audience and I have no interest in climbing, but I really appreciated the pace of the video. It was really awesome to see Mike push himself with a concept that required a lot more knowledge than his usual brute force or tutorial methods. I feel like I learned something! Thank you!

  • @ekf20
    @ekf20 3 месяца назад +1

    Blimey. This is incredible to see… I love the videos of balletic dancing up ridiculously impossible climbs; it’s also nice to see what great coaching can do for a beginner - gives those of us at the lower levels an idea of what is possible! It looks as if this was an excellent level of preparing the climber for certain technical elements but not over anticipating what it feels like to be that exposed.
    Hugely grateful for the many helpful shots of the different set-ups - meticulously done, and a great lesson for the inexperienced! Thank you!

  • @Miura.Powers
    @Miura.Powers 11 месяцев назад +10

    I really love, how the quality of this channel has evolved to an amazing level. Great content. Keep going and feeding us with outdoor/trad/crack content.

  • @elimik31
    @elimik31 11 месяцев назад +15

    Mike is less of a pro athlete than e.g. a Toby Segar, so seeing him on a big wall gives a nice glimpse of how us normal weekend-warriors might be able to do with Pete's excellent instruction and some will to learn.

  • @Miles_To_Go
    @Miles_To_Go 11 месяцев назад +2

    Absolutely loved this! It mirrors my own beginnings in trad climbing.

  • @minikretz1
    @minikretz1 11 месяцев назад +1

    It's insane how much Mike was able to learn in such a short time. Amazing job by both of you

  • @LetsTalkAboutLifeForABit
    @LetsTalkAboutLifeForABit 11 месяцев назад

    Yessss I’ve been loving his series on RUclips about climbing. Good to see this collab

  • @flamebeard10339
    @flamebeard10339 11 месяцев назад +8

    An explanation of how friends work 😂

  • @zimcam1
    @zimcam1 11 месяцев назад

    That's fabulous. Good for @mikeBoyd. Great work @Pete feels close to home of how I'd feel.

  • @benbobben
    @benbobben 11 месяцев назад

    Amazing to see mikes progress over 4 daays, cant wait for finale!

  • @warrengans1346
    @warrengans1346 10 месяцев назад

    Extend those runners Mike! Will help with the rope drag. Also, with cracks you can be tactical about where you place to help with drag too.

  • @thawkward3985
    @thawkward3985 11 месяцев назад +1

    Love when Mike calls Pete a national treasure

  • @OllyClack
    @OllyClack 11 месяцев назад

    Oh my god it's happening the Collab of the century, love the vid wise boys keep up the good work.

  • @andrewhunter6536
    @andrewhunter6536 11 месяцев назад +2

    Nice of Pete to not place a nut that’s complicated to remove. It seems like something of a tradition when teaching new trad climbers normally

  • @Zephyrbal
    @Zephyrbal 11 месяцев назад +4

    Trad Dad used to be a joke, but now you're raising up all these Trad Babies it's basically true

  • @hanswoast7
    @hanswoast7 11 месяцев назад +1

    Well done you both. And well edited!

  • @nope110
    @nope110 11 месяцев назад +1

    I started climbing after mikes first video about it, met him in ratho not too long after that, it’s wild to see him up to all this

  • @flowrida1138
    @flowrida1138 11 месяцев назад

    Brilliant!! For me one of best things about climbing is infecting other people with the passion for climbing. The best thing remains climbing itself obviously ❤

  • @andersfugelli2764
    @andersfugelli2764 11 месяцев назад

    Loved to see the Stanage classics!

  • @climbing_thomas
    @climbing_thomas 11 месяцев назад

    oh i was so excited for this! you guys are really delivering right now, thank you so much! and tomorrow the big O-Dog releases the boulder comp video!

  • @stephanvg
    @stephanvg 5 месяцев назад

    Love Vigerusteggen, do it every year at least once

  • @paulgaras2606
    @paulgaras2606 11 месяцев назад +1

    This is the most buttoned up Pete has ever been on this channel

  • @hotbeefo
    @hotbeefo 11 месяцев назад +1

    If that's Easter Rib on day one then he was already at a very decent level!

  • @Ensification
    @Ensification 11 месяцев назад

    Love it!❤

  • @pij3333
    @pij3333 11 месяцев назад

    The echoing around 23:00 makes it sound like he's about to die and those were his last words 😂

  • @sean6387
    @sean6387 11 месяцев назад

    The Idwal slabs would have been closer, but this makes great telly.

  • @2rfg949
    @2rfg949 11 месяцев назад

    smashed that first lead damn.

  • @michaelbooth2890
    @michaelbooth2890 11 месяцев назад +1

    Mike being in Norway with Pete. Is there a collab with Magnus coming?

  • @dannycameron
    @dannycameron 11 месяцев назад

    God I love this. A dream of mine to be able to climb big walls and get off of the signed pitches, so jealous but well done Mike!!

  • @davidsimpson3885
    @davidsimpson3885 11 месяцев назад

    hats of to anyone who onsights trad climbs. trad is genuinly 50%, head space and experience, did what is no more than an E1 5c, just weird placements and a couple of not hard but not sure moves for an onsight, as you dont know the hold you're going to is any good. pumped myself out and getting sketched, then clipping the bolts as its a Sport route and ended up working out placements before actually sending it, even though i've onsighted E6 6c before, bad day, weird but not dodgy placements still happy to have climbed that route clean.

  • @ruisearts
    @ruisearts 11 месяцев назад

    Both you and Mike’s videos were very enjoyable to watch, do you mind me just asking where the piano music is from? Cheers thanks love ya

  • @rubyseverinwhitworth9066
    @rubyseverinwhitworth9066 11 месяцев назад

    It is amazing to know the end result and then see how we got there

  • @ehtikhet
    @ehtikhet 11 месяцев назад

    Wow! What an amazing series! 👍

  • @16m49x3
    @16m49x3 11 месяцев назад

    Great vid. Been looking forward to this
    Mike seem to always give it his all, the amount of insane things he has learned is amazing.
    Did you try a new editing style on this vid Pete? Or did Mike do the editing, it reminded me a lot about his videos. (in a good way)

  • @benhefel3095
    @benhefel3095 11 месяцев назад +1

    Did you teach him how to use slings? seems like a lot of the pieces should have been extended to reduce rope drag and walking.

  • @Newgonz
    @Newgonz 11 месяцев назад

    So cool guys! Awesome collab

  • @erlendgh2661
    @erlendgh2661 11 месяцев назад

    This is great content! Loved this video.

  • @solomonreinman7452
    @solomonreinman7452 11 месяцев назад

    Crazy how a bit of exposure and a bit of nerves can make a 5.8 feel like a 5.12

  • @pauljepson1249
    @pauljepson1249 11 месяцев назад

    What was the first route at Stanage you did Pete? Recognised Easter Rib and Hargreaves but not the first one.

  • @carrots1550
    @carrots1550 10 месяцев назад

    Amazing stuff. Would be interesting to know the grades

  • @brekkoh
    @brekkoh 11 месяцев назад

    Nothing makes me laugh harder than petes laugh

  • @ryangamv8
    @ryangamv8 11 месяцев назад

    10:55 gets off the jugs and into the horizontal fist jam asap. That's our boy :')

  • @masterpropper2485
    @masterpropper2485 11 месяцев назад

    Am I the only one who noticed the subtle joke?
    Pete saying: "... these current climbs." - Video showing some "currant". 🤣
    I guess with that I won a pair of Wide Boyz crack gloves, right?

  • @doc2502
    @doc2502 11 месяцев назад +1

    The third wideboy???

  • @AutonomousPlayground
    @AutonomousPlayground 11 месяцев назад

    I just can't believe a human being can remove their fear of heights in such a short time to actually achieve something like this

  • @paulmitchell5349
    @paulmitchell5349 11 месяцев назад +1

    Easter Rib is a toughie for a noob.

    • @hotbeefo
      @hotbeefo 11 месяцев назад

      Yup, no pushover

  • @MudStuffin
    @MudStuffin 11 месяцев назад

    At 12:30 why does pete say to keep his feet under the rope? I know that as backstepping and have known it to be bad technique and very dangerous for lead climbing, but pete says "always under"

  • @phkit420
    @phkit420 11 месяцев назад

    So relatable

  • @berikdahl
    @berikdahl 11 месяцев назад

    right smack in my backyard you guys!!

  • @misterx2133
    @misterx2133 11 месяцев назад

    In this video you climbed at Tellnes from the looks of it? Which routes did you do? :)

  • @shanephillips4417
    @shanephillips4417 11 месяцев назад

    Man, I wish I had someone to teach me how to do this stuff outside. I got my wife to climb in the gym with me, but no shot she'd give this a go lol

  • @giacomoriccieri7058
    @giacomoriccieri7058 11 месяцев назад

    I have never done a trad climb and i have a question: where do you fix the rope at the top to upsail down? Do you leave a piece of gear there every time?😅

  • @TheArmyKnifeNut
    @TheArmyKnifeNut 11 месяцев назад

    "It's like I'm a guide but I have absolutely no qualifications." 😂
    I feel like being a pro climber with over a decade of experience and one of the world's leading experts on crack climbing might be some sort of qualification. 😜

  • @mistrogo3388
    @mistrogo3388 11 месяцев назад

    love the video, the music volume is maybe a bit much. keep up the good work :)

  • @ryanbester7990
    @ryanbester7990 11 месяцев назад

    Can you remove the heatsink?
    What would happen then

  • @danielkovacic3588
    @danielkovacic3588 11 месяцев назад

    @Wide Boze
    Pete, what is this massive knot you use to tigh in?

  • @liamboyd555
    @liamboyd555 7 месяцев назад

    Where in Norway is this? Is it near Bergen?

    • @WideBoyz
      @WideBoyz  7 месяцев назад

      Near Bergen. Sotra

  • @russellvernon4214
    @russellvernon4214 11 месяцев назад

    would love to know the names of all the routes in this video :D

  • @foihdzas
    @foihdzas 11 месяцев назад +1

    To be fair, I’d only been sport climbing for a year when my friends and I bought trad gear and just got out there. 15 years on, I’m still alive and have taught many.
    I wouldn’t say this is abnormal, except the larger objective. But it’s just a big wall of rock in the end. Nice work.

  • @Vaclav_kovac
    @Vaclav_kovac 11 месяцев назад

    nice video

  • @mackie_p
    @mackie_p 11 месяцев назад

    Probably should have a closer up picture of Mike for the thumbnail, might help with clickrate

  • @insalt4081
    @insalt4081 11 месяцев назад

    Why do you use two ropes? I've climbed outdoors multiple times, but never encountered that before.

    • @paulmitchell5349
      @paulmitchell5349 11 месяцев назад +3

      Because sometimes a single rope would go through too many wrong angles that produce friction to the point where the rope is hard to pull through.

    • @raartsen
      @raartsen 11 месяцев назад +2

      Correct and I'd add that it gives you the advantage of being able to abseil the full length of a rope instead of just half.

    • @nemonef
      @nemonef 11 месяцев назад +3

      It also adds some redundancy in case one rope gets damaged by rockfall or gets cut on sharp edge while falling

    • @ayuminor
      @ayuminor 11 месяцев назад

      @@raartsen Oh true, hadn't thought about that. So on a multi pitch with a single rope, you have to bring one double the length of the longest pitch if you can't walk down after topping out?

    • @raartsen
      @raartsen 11 месяцев назад

      @@ayuminor Correct. Or sometimes intermediate abseil belays are installed. The guidebook usually tells you what rope length is required.

  • @coryupton669
    @coryupton669 11 месяцев назад

    crack gloves are for soft hands

  • @AutonomousPlayground
    @AutonomousPlayground 11 месяцев назад

    Mike needs a little bit of a diet 😂

  • @florianneumann9441
    @florianneumann9441 11 месяцев назад

    Oh god - good he has a professional at his side or I would fear he gets himself killed ^^

  • @dddon513
    @dddon513 11 месяцев назад +1

    No use of nuts or other passive pro? Those are the foundation of good protection skills, imo.

  • @timonix2
    @timonix2 11 месяцев назад

    considering how much of a public person you are maybe you should consider a guide course? They don't take too much time. Maybe it would even make a nice video? Who knows

  • @reneeschke
    @reneeschke 11 месяцев назад +1

    Sorry but I‘m not buying that Mike has never built a belay up to petes crash course and then pete just trustig him to second an uninspected belay; yes, the camera guy might have inspected it, why wouldn‘t Mike learn the basics of building belays and abseiling at home before a project like that? Atleast in theory through youtube vids I‘m sure Mike came way more prepared than they are portraying here.
    Not to take anything of of the achievement. But it leaves a slightly bad taste that they are treading the arguably most dangerous form of roped free climbing like if it can be taught in 3 days without any more preparation than bolted lead climbing.

  • @satanaz
    @satanaz 11 месяцев назад

    I'm wondering how hard can Pete push those newbies up until one of them dies 😱

  • @wildfire9782
    @wildfire9782 11 месяцев назад

    Booooring 😢

  • @smackheadsgyro
    @smackheadsgyro 11 месяцев назад

    You kinda effed it not putting his name in the title and having his pic so small in thumbnail I couldnt even tell who it was. If I knew you two had collabed, I would have clicked it immediately, but thought was some random dude I had no idea about. Imagine how many of his subs are in my position. He has a huge brand. Cash in on it you numpties. Lay off the crack its frying your noggin

  • @geoffswyka1143
    @geoffswyka1143 11 месяцев назад +514

    Never been so jealous in my life. A five day big wall course from Pete. Yeeeesh

    • @boogaloo4640
      @boogaloo4640 11 месяцев назад +26

      You just need 3m subs. Easy

    • @flynryan3053
      @flynryan3053 11 месяцев назад +1

      no shit, must be nice

    • @michael2026
      @michael2026 11 месяцев назад +1

      Agreed

    • @gavinlindridge
      @gavinlindridge 11 месяцев назад

      Definitely, always been a dream of mine to do big walls and getting it done in 5 days, wow!

    • @KjetilKleven
      @KjetilKleven 11 месяцев назад

      Yea, me 2

  • @tranquil_slime870
    @tranquil_slime870 11 месяцев назад +92

    It's really interesting to see someone with so little climbing experience learn to climb on trad gear, and how the things that made Mike nervous are things I'm used to, whereas the things that would probably make me nervous he didn't seem to take much notice of. Awesome video, thanks for making these Pete.

  • @KieranJDuncan
    @KieranJDuncan 11 месяцев назад +31

    Nice one Pete, what a pleasure to film you both on this!! Looking forward to getting the BTS edit out there soooooon 😎🤟

    • @WideBoyz
      @WideBoyz  11 месяцев назад +3

      So good to work together,thanks Kieran. Amazing job filming and helping out 💪

  • @Will-kt5jk
    @Will-kt5jk 11 месяцев назад +9

    Now send Mike over to Mr Segar for some massive dive-kongs :D
    That was impressive, though - I hope I can get onto some trad stuff at some point.

  • @Cyax0k
    @Cyax0k 11 месяцев назад +6

    Hearing Pete remind everyone that he is not a certified guide makes me wonder how a video (or a couple) of Pete getting a guiding certification would do. It seems like it would be really interesting to see how a heavy risk-mitigation style of climbing would mesh or clash with Pete's own developed skills in mountaineering.

    • @Charliened1
      @Charliened1 11 месяцев назад +3

      getting an MCI for the uk or becoming a BMG (for alpine guiding) takes alot longer than a couple youtube videos would. Any safe and competent climber should be climbing atleast vaguely similarly to how a guide would climb anyway.

  • @davidofoakland2363
    @davidofoakland2363 11 месяцев назад +5

    Great video, and big kudos to Mike for such rapid advancement in his climbing. I never used double rope technique before, but it looks like a lot of the rope drag is because there were no slings added to the pro. Surely a strategic sling here and there would have ameliorated a lot of the drag, yes?

  • @PoochyMishaps
    @PoochyMishaps 11 месяцев назад +3

    As if I wasn't dying to try something outside already, this is astonishing!
    It really says so much about both of them, being able to pull off this much, as well as whatever happens in the next one!
    I'm just blown away, but also deep in my brain is saying "Of course they're amazing, it's Pete". First time seeing Mike, and the dude is phenomenal!

  • @perplexedon9834
    @perplexedon9834 11 месяцев назад +2

    20:06 good doing the air clove rather than the clip one hand clove. For anyone who doesnt know this, doing a one hand style clove at the anchor why being belayed from above in guide mode introduces a failure mode where the belayer wont be able to catch the climber and the system wont lock if they fall before finishing the knot.

  • @themoog924
    @themoog924 11 месяцев назад +2

    Slowly, but also quickly 🤔

  • @slaye314
    @slaye314 11 месяцев назад +1

    What were the routes and locations you climbed?

  • @Phoebus20
    @Phoebus20 11 месяцев назад +1

    This is an incredible video but sometimes I feel like Pete cuts a lot. If this was 3 videos I would absolutely binge all three.

  • @alexbernstein1812
    @alexbernstein1812 11 месяцев назад +2

    i’ve been waiting for this one

  • @I.am.Bananaman
    @I.am.Bananaman 11 месяцев назад

    freakin hilarious, the very first cam placement was EXACTLY where I would have placed a nut. TG I learnt trad at Arapiles/Djurrite

  • @LoveAndClimbing
    @LoveAndClimbing 11 месяцев назад

    3:40 LOL I've taken a 40ft fall (10m for the Brits) on a blue Totem with little worry and if I had manufactured it myself I would not trust it.

  • @ixodesricinus3001
    @ixodesricinus3001 11 месяцев назад

    12:40 why would you want your feet to be under the rope? wouldnt that make the fall a lot worse since your body would spin around and you go heads first into the wall?

  • @bavokegels8929
    @bavokegels8929 11 месяцев назад

    how do you get your top belay out? that's what i'm wondering

  • @satanaz
    @satanaz 11 месяцев назад +1

    why do you use such a long thingy for the break @20:50?
    I usually keep my break attached directly to my harness

    • @Lumi_nance
      @Lumi_nance 11 месяцев назад

      your prusik can not get into the belay device

  • @lester44444
    @lester44444 9 месяцев назад

    Far out so jealous of Mike haahahaha thats so good

  • @Freddylee01
    @Freddylee01 11 месяцев назад

    What a video, I was just wishing it was me.

  • @ryanfoss6243
    @ryanfoss6243 11 месяцев назад

    a cliff hanger?!?!?!?! ahhhh!!

  • @5amJones69
    @5amJones69 11 месяцев назад

    Did he back clip at 14:37 ish?

  • @Lumi_nance
    @Lumi_nance 11 месяцев назад

    15:10 what does he say?

  • @robluker1599
    @robluker1599 11 месяцев назад

    Well done Mike!