Free Solo - Boulder Problem
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- Опубликовано: 1 янв 2019
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A stunning, intimate and unflinching portrait of free soloist climber Alex Honnold, as he prepares to achieve his lifelong dream: climbing the face of the world’s most famous rock - the 3,200-foot El Capitan in Yosemite National Park … without a rope.
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"the idea of jumping without a rope seems completely outrageous" so does climbing without one, bro!
Not if you've climbed it hundreds of times WITH a rope and can execute every move perfectly.
@@toddsmith1969 what about failure of the holds?
@@RideBikes_Walkplaces that's why it took him 2 years of training.
@@toddsmith1969 in 2 years holds can deteriorate, get weathered and break off.
@@RideBikes_Walkplaces I doubt he did this before checking the holds.
Whenever i'm thirsty I just watch this video and then suck the sweat off my fingertips.
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I was gonna ask if anyone else had puddle palms
Lmfaoo
His idea of jumping to a good edge is different from mine
skippymon good edge “ 1/2 in
To him it probably looks like a gymnastics high bar covered with fresh masking tape.
Watched the documentary. I have never and probably will never see something so extraordinary and amazing in my life. Truly one of the greatest athletic feats in human history.
Id say one of the greatest things a human has ever done. Athletics aside this just anazing
@@sh0cktim3 check out the route "silence" by Adam Ondra. Only person to ever climb it WITH a rope.
@@toddsmith1969 I've seen it and it's awesome. Ondra is much more stronger climber. The stuff he climbs is significantly more difficult. So much more so that you have to have a rope or you will die. But I still think what Alex did is more amazing. Ondra is allowed to just use brute force and fail over and over because of the safety of the rope. Alex cannot not fail even once or he will 100% die. Even though physically easier climbs they still require you to be in great shape and have elite monk/jedi like focus. It's like Alex has mastered fear control.
@@sh0cktim3 totally agree. You think anyone will ever free solo el cap again? If I met Alex I would ask if he'd do it again. Pretty sure he said no in the past, but who knows what he'll do years from now!
@@toddsmith1969 I don't think anyone will try it. Alex is special talent and after watching the film it seems his amygdala is different from average human. It's like he doesn't get scared or stress like a normal human would because his amygdala isn't normal. Be amazing to see, but I don't want him to free solo anything else at that level or harder. You keep pushing towards the edge and eventually you find it.
I feel like when alex says something if very difficult its not an overstatement
That's when you know someone is really good at something. Don't underestimate practise.
‘very difficult’ by Alex standards really just means impossible for 99.99999999 percent of people
It’s difficult in its context but not really on its own, it’s only like a V7
@@brigadierharsh1948 which is completely impossible for anyone who doesn't climb. So it's not "easy" it's just not super hard for the select people who have a decent amount of practice
@@MrRazmut, "select people" is quite a large number for a sport that's gaining huge popularity.
I understand perhaps a pedantic point but, it's also misleading to suggest 2-3 people in the world could (physically) do it.
Just fwiw.
In the documentary, when he does this section whitout ropes, you have the worse time as a viewer. So much tension.
Probably the most white knuckling sweaty palms moment I've ever had in my life watching him do the boulder problem free solo.
@@gregs8772 Even knowing he survived the ordeal, I still was freaking out for him. The man is a beast.
@@Algernon7 I've heard about some people watching the movie without knowing Alex made it... That must be even more insanely terrifying... This movie is pretty much the only one where everyone should get the spoiler before watching it !
@@daedalron Oh wow, I don't think I could've finished the movie if I didn't know he survived. See I assumed he lived since the documentary aired but it was still nerve wracking
@@Algernon7 Yeah. I saw an interview of Jimmy Chin (director of the movie) where he was told some people saw it without knowing Alex lived, and he seemed horrified for them.
"whenever you start fooling yourself into thinking you have real problems in your life remember boulder problem"
no one needs to explain it to me, it wont help. i still dont understand the thumb press, switching thumbs and what not there, the physics of how hes still attached to that wall is mind blowing
Thumb press is just putting your thumb there and pushing up on it with your whole body so you have enough tension on it to make it stick xD Its just as crazy as it looks, fucking insane.
Yeah right. I just watched that bit about 5 times and I don’t get it. Common sense tells me you can’t grab onto that. But apparently you can?! It’s nuts
He is using friction and pure muscle strength to hold himself to that wall, he really relies on his legs to drive him over to the other hold though.
What's hard to understand? With the thumb press you're pushing on your entire body, pushing down on your legs, or your other hand. Creating pressure at the opposite points of contact. Go to a door frame a push up on it and you'll see...
He's not holding himself up with the thumb press its more of a way to keep himself glued to the wall while making moves.
His feet are the only thing really holding him.
I have rock climbed for 28 years, all over the world. I have climbed the Nose of El Cap and free soloed a 1500' cliff in Yosemite called "Royal Arches" I have climbed V12 and Alex is a friend who I have known for 15 years. This "Boulder Problem" is nuts. This scene made my heart pump hard. I knew the outcome (Alex lived) but it didn't matter at all. I never get scared climbing and do moves harder than this "boulder problem" all the time, and still, this scene blew my mind and had my hands sweating. Alex basically risked it all (for himself and) for us. To inspire himself and us to a greater benchmark. Life is short and most people don't truly live. Alex doesn't have that problem. Fun to watch a friend make history.
thanks for your perspective. i just read your story about your first accent of the nose with noah.
life is short and things happen fast. Also NEVER overstate your abilities to strangers. be honest about where you are in your progression
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I too felt uncomfortable watching the Boulder Problem in Free Solo. However, I did like the smirk he gave the camera right after the ascent after the 'karate kick'. I really hope Alex retires from free soloing. He has nothing left to prove. Do you think he will? Do you and his colleagues encourage him to continue? You can't be perfect forever.
Hahaha u got burned dude u over stated your abilities u are not that good
And you're part of the legendary Wolfpack ninjas! Thanks you for your POV, and respect to you and your crew for your achievements and commitment to health, fitness, passion and fun! May you continue to strive!
Noah Kaufman Is there another guy who would attempt this single boulder problem ropeless?
In Free Solo, the actual climb scene is only about 8 minutes out of an hour and a half movie. At first I thought it was strange, with the movie being about the free solo climb of El Cap. But then I realized very few people would be able to stomach an hour and a half of hair raising climbing footage such as this one. Watch the movie! It is really an enjoyable documentary which deservedly won the Oscar.
22/23 minutes.
Yup, the free solo climb lasts 22-23 minutes, not 8.
8 min ? it feelt like 20
The entire climb start to finish took 4 hours. Imagine watching that for 4 hours without knowing the end result.
@@toddsmith1969 That's not gonna sell any popcorn.
I can watch it a hundred times and still my fingers start sweating!
I would think there'd be a lot of "that's that" moments on this climb.
Like every single hold beyond about the 40-foot mark.
I love how they break it down in the scene, really puts things into perspective.
"It took me 3 attempts to watch Free Solo" is one of my favorite comments on this climb lol.
Utterly insane.. the level of confidence, control and belief in your own ability required is beyond off the scale to even contemplate attempting something like this without a rope.
Rock climbing as a spectator sport never really shows just how small some of the holds are that the climber is using, because they make it look so easy, viewed from a distance it looks like every hold is a jug.
Free Solo was an astonishing insight in the level of skill and mental control that can be achieved by an individual. Way beyond the boundaries of almost everybody else on the planet.
Incredible achievement of strength (mental and physical), endurance and sheer will power and determination.
He just casually says “if you miss it, that’s that”
Well, he didn't do or intend to do the jump without a rope, so..
The mind blowing thing is jumping was on his list of things to try.
I admire the spirit of it all... knowledgeable, concentrated, excellent, detached from all but the focus on the task... "The secret of self-mastery is self-forgetfulness." ~ Shoghi Effendi, Baha'i Faith
He’s a very accomplished and highly trained crazy person. I get it.
If i train for a good month or two, i think i can watch this
we will never witness something like that in our whole lifetime for sure. what alex did is seriously outrageous, mindblowing
True, but what he did was obviously within the scope of what he was capable of doing. He was either extraordinarily confident about getting out of this climb alive or he was pushed very strongly by something from deep within his psyche.
there's a recreation of the boulder problem at my local climbing-gym.. and NOPE, i can't NOPE!
Alex is a beast.
Which gym is your local gym?
XBrainstoneX it’s at Vauxwall east I think. There are videos on RUclips of him setting it
"switch your thumbs" might be the most ridiculous thing i've ever heard
Josh Miller why
@@joshmiller7360 ..kaaay
@@notsocooldude7720 your comment really is not so cool dude
SnickerOfSteel Funny
Going to be free soloing el cap next week anybody wanna come?
Thank God he didn’t try the dyno when he was free soloing. I can’t think of a more high-risk move when you’re that high.
Greatest mental and physical achievement in human history. Bar none
Nothing a human being has ever attempted has been as difficult as what this man did.
You ever try to go 5 days without arguing with your woman???
@@sirswayzee1220 I died nailed to a cross one time.
@@OVM601 seriously im trying to think and nothing can come to mind .. he has balls of steel
You guys notice how at 0:47 he almost loses grip but is able to pull himself back with his thumb? Imagine the feeling if he had no ropes in that scenario!
Absolutely spectacular
Goddamn right jumping without a rope is completely outrageous. It's so outrageous I can't believe you brought it up as a possible option.
When he misses the ledge off the jump he slides on the rope a bit before it catches. And seeing the end of the rope right below him makes my heart drop.
Same here. He has a stopping knot (but loose) at the end though.
Alex Honnold will always be in my mind for the greatest physical achievement for Free Solo.
this may sound odd but i consider the two greatest athletic performances of all time to be
Alex Honold on El Cap and Secretariat at the Belmont .
I’ve been watching quite a few vids of Alex over the last week or so, one of the many things I like about the guy is he is not trying to out do himself by aiming for something bigger. He is satisfied with his accomplishment and is happy doing other things. Basically I think he’s not driven like some adrenaline junkies are. But hell I’m probably wrong. Anyway good on ya mate.
At the end of Free Solo he's giving the same answer he gave when people have asked him about El Cap. Something like "who knows, we'll see". Earlier in the movie he's admitting that he gave those dismissive answers while thinking "yeah of course I want to do El Cap". It sounded like he had something in mind, at least in theory. Now with the marriage and baby on the way the circumstances probably changed very slightly.
I'm not sure what he could now do to outdo himself. Climb it feet first? Climb down it, instead?
@@arturobandini4078 yea, honestly. It doesn't get any better than elcap
He hit his thirties and said “ok whats the highest risk thing i can check off while im at my absolute prime” did it and that was that. He’s talked about it. Its a numbers game. You try something like this after youve lost just a tiny bit of thst youthful fire, but before youve gained that experienced patience snd your odds start plummeting
I still get nightmarish dreams about this documentary especially this Boulder part. The anxiety and fear I feel would be enough to wake me up queasy.
I'm an adrenaline junky myself but Alex doing this seems to trump Laird Hamilton surfing that huge wave in Tahiti. I admire people who have such passion for experiencing Gods creation . My greatest passion is fly fishing I'm almost 55 . Get away from the artificial world and experience life in nature . I can understand Alex's passion
He says there is no adrenaline in it at all. And I believe him when he says if there is a adrenaline then theres a serious problem.
Excellent explanation. Now I can give it a try myself...
He should have The Nobel Prize in Physics for this.
Unbelievable !
I wonder how many times Alex had to practice just this one part before he could do it without a rope. It was not only a feat of strength, but of endurance.
It feels like the kind of move that if he wasnt 100% focused and in the moment for it it could have very easily been his last.
@@TheOldSpirit Yep that´s exactly right, it´s the hardest section of the 3000 foot climb and it´s over half way up. If he was super tired for some reason or lost focus he would have died 100%, not much chance to recover a slip on holds that shitty.
About 90 times. He says that in the movie.
The strength and endurance challenge pale into insignificance. The feat was 99%+ mental.
90 times the whole route or just the section? For just the section 90 seems low. You could probably do that in a couple of days
"but the idea of jumping without a rope seems completely outrageous..." to him! LOL! To the rest of us it's about 1700' below, just about 10' off the ground where we would soil our trousers!
This comment makes no sense.
@@ItzzTesta he's saying that it's only outrageous to alex, the idea of jumping from rock to rock over 1700' above the ground, and that for the rest of us it's about 10' off the ground when we begin to think of climbing anything more than that "outrageous".
For anyone who doesn't understand the terminology or climbing from your average person's perspective, I highly recommend you grab some family and friends and go hit up your local climbing gym. It'll give you great perspective into what it's like and what can be done.
I think that’s a huge part of this films success. These RUclips comment sections are full of people that have 0 experience(that’s not a bad thing at all) and think he free solod the hardest route in the world and other things like that. And have no idea of the difference between 5.11a and 5.12c. Not that ratings mean a ton because they are relative to the person a lot. But you can just see the lack of understanding for climbing after the rise of this movie.
Climbing is awesome. Seriously go try it if you haven’t guys.
Testa yep I have no experience in this nor do I want any. It’s a fun thing to watch and that’s that.
Nah
@@ItzzTesta dude you really down playing just how high level and technical what Alex did? 99.9% of people that are rock climbers wouldn't even atempt this without a rope.
sh0cktim3 that’s like saying 99.9% of runners couldn’t out run Usain Bolt
And it’s only true because there are so many people in the world that climb. But there have been crazier and hard free solos, although not as long.
I’m not downplaying what he did, I just say these things because ever since Free Solo came out, in the comments of every RUclips video, people with no idea about climbing, say “wow Alex honnold would have done it without ropes and faster”
I think that it isn't even possible I can't believe that guy can do that stuff he is a real life superhero
It's all CGI lol. He's actually just crawling along a wall horizontally, and the camera has just been flipped to make it look like he's climbing upwards. That's my theory anyway
Sclerotic you can’t be serious...
@@parkerstacks3861 I am..and don't call me surely
Parker Stacks it's true, there are a bunch of people who know the guy they now call "Alex", a couple of years ago he was a akward bag boy at a Walmart in Boulder. All this shit is propaganda, by Natgeo who is owned by the Vanderbilts to promote "Environmentalism". They are subtlety making you fall in love with the "environment" by making you associate victory with nature. Ohhh a awkward loser like Alex can climb a wall and find a super hot GF I can too, and it's all thanks to nature
Don't be fooled my friend, the Vanderbilts dont want to protect the environment they wanna protect it from other people so they own the means of resources.
X-pert Mastermind Okay. I’m going to be civil here, but you are wrong. First of all, I’ve met Alex Honnold. I was in Lander, Wyoming at the International Climbers Festival. That was 2014. Also, I used to live in Boulder. I am a rock climber. If there was a bag boy turned climbing phenom I would have heard about it.
"that's that" is you miss. The ropes probably got in his way. Incredible.
so I think I'm not longer a "beginner" at climbing, but the fact that he can hold on to the shit he's holding onto, after hours of climbing, is mind boggling to me...
He's so badass!!! He done that shit!!! He's definitely not all talk!!
my palms are sweaty, my knees are weak. there may possibly end up being some vomit on my sweater, and we're already 1 min in,
Mom's spaghetti?
"Without the rope, fear will find you again"
And here I am, barely climbed a scaffolding!
In the solo ascent, he ends up doing the karate kick instead of trying the double dyno.
Tom Cruise would’ve done the latter even in real life.
@@sjacrane 🤣
I watched the ropeless ascent and my hands were dropping with sweat afterwards. I had to wipe them clean from this little bit too.
Half the views on this video are from me.
Between watching this and watching him do the Enduro Corner, I shat myself a good 1,472 times.
Fucking unbelievable from every perspective. 😨
Anyone notice at 0:47 when he switches his thumbs, he starts to fall backwards so he pulls himself close to the wall with only 2 thumbs?! thats so nerve racking, imagine if he experiennced that during the free solo
Six Phoenix
He did
Think how his fingers toes and muscles must have felt before he jumped.
Imagine freaking out up there with no ledge to grab on to AND without gear. Seeing the TINY half-inch steps he uses to get up gives me so much anxiety.
I've never understood "on the spectrum" until now. Thank you, Alex.
What does it mean?
Good GAWD Alex
He finally did jump without a rope and THAT ….was not just a feat of endurance or strength or a testament to the gazillion hours he practiced…..but also a feat of, and testament to, the conviction, courage and blind belief (stupidity?) that he needed to finally ACTUALLY do this on the final attempt without a rope, and reduce his whole life to THAT ONE MOMENT WHEN it is either complete success or….guaranteed death….. and in this he is no different from all those brave souls and soldiers in history who have ridden into overwhelming odds FULLY CONSCIOUS AND ALIVE TO THE FACT THAT their choice has exactly two and ONLY THOSE TWO outcomes - (lesser probability)win and live or, (higher probability)lose and die.
But they went ahead with that knowledge anyway….and that’s the group Alex belongs to…..it’s a small, dangerous and desperate club to belong to and that is why HE is IN the video and the sheer sheer sheer vast majority of humanity is OUTSIDE the video watching it on an electronic screen in quiet but miserable comfort……..🙏🙏🙏
Except soldiers are doing it for the benefit of people other than themselves (or an abstract cause bigger than themselves).
I'd almost be intimidated to shake this dude's hand
My limit of onsight has never exceeded 5.8/+. Honnold is just nucking futs!
I never realized there was a section so difficult to climb on Alex's route up El Cap.
He's climbing very close to his limit throughout the climb, which I think is 14a.
Herman A I'm sorry but it most definitely not 5.14.
@@mrseaturtle8915 Freerider is 5.13a.
It’s like a bad dream I have every now and then .
Some say ability, some say insanity. I'll go with the latter.
Um, call me crazy but the idea of CLIMBING without a rope is outrageous. Because the same reason, one miss and that’s that
LOL Sherlock.
I don't think this is a hot take
What about flying in a metal tube to get to another country. Or going into space for that matter. There's a bunch of stupid shit humans do but we do it anyway.
@@jonnysith I don't know about those analogies.
@@jonnysith yeah, but some of them are necesarry, some of them are not.
I don't like free soloing. It just makes no sense to me to Take such a huge risk. Regardless, I respect Alex Honnold hella' lot. He's great în everything that he does.
As far as human accomplishments are concerned this is up there with that science about the rockets.
Some parts of the Japanese translation subtitles is a little off, but may be understood. But yep. Double dyno without a rope is an extreme risk,
Everyone keeps saying he jumped without ropes he didnt..he did like a fucking split with his lanky ass legs and spread eagle across. Idk awesome but totally crazy.
I doubt he actually missed it here in the shot (with the rope), they probably just told him to for the b roll
The documentary was 3 years worth of footage.
Team was hands off on everything.
They just had to be there and shoot everytime he wants to climb.
even when he has the gear im sweating
so my lack of physical and spatial awareness means I have a difficult time interpreting what I see him do during the actual assent. I know it's a matter of perfect balance, pressure and counter pressure or "technique" for lack of a better word but while I understand it I still cannot comprehend it.
"thumb hold" are you kidding?!?!?
"make the climb, but without the rope"
I like that he is top roping soloing with just a grigri a loose figure 8 below him haha
Alex could've probably been a great boxer, 4 hrs to climb that high is impressive but what about 4 hrs of hard climbing.....the endurance is remarkable
Awesome movie, just saw it. Anyone remember what the other route was called with the slippery walls which he could have chosen instead of the boulder problem?
The Teflon Corner
It's not an awesome movie lol. It's average at best. The climb was awesome. But the documentary shows very little of the climb itself. It's like watching the story of a climber who died, but he didn't. We all know he made it. For then to watch all that nonsense for over an hour was just painful. It should have contained way more of the climb itself.
@@FabledGentleman Dang, you shoulda asked for a refund then..
@@FabledGentleman you'd have to be a pretty hardcore fan to want to watch 4 hours of climbing
@@Jefferson-ly5qe They of course cut it down. But of course, they don't only show 10 minutes of it. This was maybe the greatest accomplishment any human has ever achieved. And it is shown for only a few minutes in a boring non-original, by the book, straight forward documentary.
Perhaps 100,000 people on earth could do this boulder problem.
But only 1 could do it in that context
"a good edge" no buddy, that is no good edge. That is the edge of death
The double dyno looks sketchy AF. Even Tomoa wouldn't try such a move. They put the thought out there just to draw gasps.
I wonder...So I can get to the boulder problem with my hammer and with a few hits I can change it completely and forever. Make it harder, make it easier. Does that happen in the climbing game?
If he dino'd it on the free solo HOLY FUCK
Ropes or no ropes, that’s fucking insane
I want to see the entire footage.
Whole docu is on Hulu
SSky06 what is Hulu and do you have a link?
На границе безумия и смерти.
“You put your foot on this dimple thing”.
At 2500 metres above the fucking ground.
With no fucking rope when he actually does it.
In fucking sane.
If that's a good edge I don't wanna know what a bad one looks like lol. Dude has balls of steel I'll give em that cause HELL NO TO THE NO TO THE NO!NO!NO! NOOOPPEE.
yo ther's more
impresionantemente peligroso
Why not just leave his thumbs on the hands they're supposed to be on? I can't imagine taking them off I think my left thumb would look really weird on my right hand....
Jordan Dotson Angel and weight distribution idiot. Think.
@Pete is never wrong LOL
Hahahaha
Crazy shit
what grade is the boulder problem?
Link is pretty good in climbing in Breath of the Wild
Looks easy
The fact he soloed this makes me feel sick. Incredible, but hard to watch
Is he self belaying with just a grigri?
I'd like to watch the documentary, but I get way too nervous watching those stuff. Watching a guy on a vertcal wall doing all that, even if I know I'm in a chair and he's still alive, it's not enough
I had a liver abscess two years ago, the first doctor that tried draining it did not do a good job, I got worse. The pain is something that I can't even describe, no amount of morphine could help. Then I went in for a second procedure, similar goal. The second doctor is an ace and doesn't even act like it or even think it's a big deal. But he told me right off, 'I'm taking care of this right now, we'll drain it over the next 3 days, some anti-biotics, and you'll be home. There will be no surgery, and the pain will be gone'. He has the same attitude and mannerisms of Alex, these people that are able to control or use their immense talents are a gift from God to us regular folks.
That’s that…
Looking at that thumb-press, how insecure it is, and then imagining having to use it while free-soloing so high off the deck...
OMG. I feel like I'm gonna throw up.
Does anyone know if he is using a Grigri in this clip?
Yep. you can see it at 1:17
Not gotta lie ... I would just swing a pick axe a few times when the cameras aren't rolling.
Is he using a just a grigri to practice this? That alone is ballsy haha