100 feet ABOVE huge rock fall on El Capitan

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  • Опубликовано: 6 окт 2024
  • Ryan Sheridan (@ryansheridan) tells the story of being only 100 feet above the huge rock fall that happened on El Capitan in 2017. A lot of this footage was from Pass the Piton Pete who wrote the in depth Big Wall Book “Hooking Up” that you can buy by messaging him on passthepitonspete@hotmail.com (tell him you heard about his book from HowNOTtoHighline). Rocks continued to fall for days while they finished the climb and you can still see the rock scar today.
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  • @HowNOT2
    @HowNOT2  10 месяцев назад +2

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  • @TobyClimbs
    @TobyClimbs 3 года назад +53

    love the mic lol

    • @ghaznavid
      @ghaznavid 3 года назад

      Looks sticky

    • @dvybeyond
      @dvybeyond 3 года назад

      Mic on a stick - Malp on a stick
      Rodney McKay wants the patent right

  • @tinodeeck8238
    @tinodeeck8238 3 года назад +53

    "where rock climbing and Highlining has begun!"
    - France and Italy have entered the chat

  • @drewharper2067
    @drewharper2067 3 года назад +34

    I dig the interview! That was such a major event, it’s cool to hear a first hand account.

  • @riderlopeman7858
    @riderlopeman7858 3 года назад +34

    I had that dude as a ski coach. That dude can send it.

  • @terraflow__bryanburdo4547
    @terraflow__bryanburdo4547 3 года назад +45

    Epic story. Rockfall on a big wall is one of my greatest fears in the outdoors.Makes you feel like a little ant with giants stomping around.

    • @austinthrowsstuff
      @austinthrowsstuff 3 года назад +5

      I remember going to yosemite a few months after they expanded the cabins at curry village in 2008 and a rock slide took out the whole new area lmao We snuck by to look at the destruction and it was INSANE. Pictures dont do rocks like that justic

  • @tacticalflannel8523
    @tacticalflannel8523 Год назад +4

    Tragic. Seemed a bit light hearted for an event that took lives? I am sure the trauma was significant for those who witnessed. Amazing bravery for those who went in to rescue. Amazing the scale.

  • @ztt1991
    @ztt1991 3 года назад +18

    I once was in Siurana (Spain) when there was a rock fall. I was at another crag but I heard the story. The rock fall was in 'El pati' (the playground). That is the most famous sport climbing crag around with all the hardest routes like 'La Rambla'. People were climbing when goats walked on top op the crag and started this rock fall. It was a huge block that came down, right above these climbers. When it came down it hit a ledge en flipped over, over the climbers. They were so lucky to get out of that unharmed!

  • @mitchellbarnow1709
    @mitchellbarnow1709 3 года назад +9

    Incredible story! Thank you so much for sharing and I am so sorry for those that lost their lives.

  • @Feverm00n
    @Feverm00n Год назад +2

    Ryan has nice energy. What a crazy story, glad there weren’t more injuries.

  • @scottmx426no7
    @scottmx426no7 3 месяца назад +1

    Two close friends had JUST finished climbing one of the cathedral spires and have an incredible video from it. Crazy stuff.

  • @danballarin
    @danballarin 3 года назад +8

    I shared a camp 4 site with the involved couple and 2 others guys the weekend before the event. I believe the 2 other guys were on the E. Buttress while Andrew and Lucy were bailing, or else they were bailed just a bit earlier. I'm sure it was really traumatizing for the survivors, they were all really nice people and wish them the best.

  • @shawnfoster1566
    @shawnfoster1566 2 года назад +1

    Was there that day with my wife just hanging out. We vacation in bass lake every year and spend one day in Yosemite, the sound of the rock fall was so loud it was pretty wild

  • @NDKY67
    @NDKY67 3 года назад +10

    There are multi pitch routes in Ireland, there are some huge sea cliffs on the west coast

  • @TiffMcGiff
    @TiffMcGiff 3 года назад +3

    AWESOME VIDEO JENKS! I have always wanted to know more about this event.

  • @matthewkelly99
    @matthewkelly99 3 года назад +3

    Great story!! I love hearing first hand stories about epics on El Cap. More please?!!

  • @g_gaming2893
    @g_gaming2893 3 года назад +6

    “Did you hear it or see it first”
    Me - “He felt that shit”🤣🤣🤣

  • @billyword7428
    @billyword7428 3 года назад +6

    Crazy wild. Do more like this. I’m a tree climber Iv been climbing for 28 years. I would love to check out highlining!!

  • @BentonvilleMTB
    @BentonvilleMTB 3 года назад +4

    Really enjoyed this. Thank you to both of you.

  • @jeroystelly1803
    @jeroystelly1803 3 года назад +10

    Can we get a super good enough hat with some cams on it? Me and my trad buddies would love that!

  • @scoo73r
    @scoo73r 2 года назад +1

    I've really enjoyed the videos with Ryan Sheridan. Great job guys.

  • @primateinterfacetechnologi6220
    @primateinterfacetechnologi6220 2 года назад +5

    That's freakin' gnarly man... changed my head a bit hearing your story. I've been in all kinds of dangerous situations; many times... but that my brother was very, very, gnarly.
    I know you didn't have any choice but to go on... but still, I'm going to say you have got some big old balls.
    this is coming from someone who at 14 years old, was employed commercial fishing- salmon and Dungeness crab, and halibut on the west coast just north of "San Fran".
    they say commercial fishing is dangerous (greater than 100% injury rate) and no doubt- the sea takes many lives; but that stuff you guys do... freaks me out.
    much respect. peace and rock on...

  • @marcondespaulo
    @marcondespaulo Год назад +1

    When in college I recall someone telling that there was this experiment, they were trying to see the effect of long time caving. One of the subjects heard a rockfall inside the cave.
    That must be the most frightening thing!

  • @YannCamusBlissClimbing
    @YannCamusBlissClimbing 3 года назад +2

    Ryan Sheridan! I did not know you were with Pete!! So happy go got up safe! Thanks for sharing :-)

  • @IrishDougal
    @IrishDougal 3 года назад +3

    Being an Irish climber myself I can assure you we have some epic multi pitch stuff it’s not El Capitan (but what is)!
    Great video by the way definitely a fan of this new direction looking forward to more.

  • @mellifont96
    @mellifont96 Год назад +2

    I love HowNot2 He seems like Dennis' cousin from its always sunny

  • @topramen6185
    @topramen6185 3 года назад +3

    I was leaving Yosemite that day in 2017 we were about to leave from the tunnel but we ended up hearing the rocks fall. The dust came up after a few minutes

  • @berryreading4809
    @berryreading4809 3 года назад +4

    The algorithm knows me too well, I just saw the original piton pete video last week, and now an interview with his climbing partner! 👍 also I assumed the title was gonna be an onsite video of where Bobby injured that mountain during his recent fall 😄👍

  • @boldbodyfitnessllc7120
    @boldbodyfitnessllc7120 3 года назад +4

    I definitely liked this video. That story was so intense! I would love to hear some highlining stories.

  • @shawnfoster1566
    @shawnfoster1566 2 года назад +1

    Crazy, my wife and i were there that day just hanging out, we go to Bass Lake every year for vacation and we usually go to Yosemite for one of the days. I remember we were at the Tunnel view and the noise was so load like thunder, it was pretty wild.

  • @CascadeMountainMan
    @CascadeMountainMan 3 года назад +1

    Love it! I think the conversation format was cool- very cool story too.

  • @mehashi
    @mehashi 3 года назад +4

    Really enjoyed the story thanks! I was in the path of an earth landslide as a teenager, very fortunate it was comparitively slow and we were close to the edge enough for us to get clear in time. It really resets your concept of how trustworthy the ground you are walking on is! The idea of solid rock moving is pure terror to me. I guess this has erased historical routes and new ones will need to be established in time?

  • @rikvdmark
    @rikvdmark 3 года назад +2

    Wow, that’s intense! I like the interview and hearing a first hand experience.
    Cool microphone by the way ^^

  • @Akooks
    @Akooks 2 года назад +1

    Every year someone dies from cliff collapse at my hometown at the beach. And it’s only like 50 - 100ft of sand stone. People like to sun bathe right at the foot of the cliff. If the rocks don’t kill you, getting buried alive will. RIP

  • @tgx6536
    @tgx6536 3 года назад +8

    18:18 ryan did in fact not edit it it down.

  • @patrickhaller669
    @patrickhaller669 3 года назад +1

    Pretty awesome interview, thanks for sharing the story

  • @maibemiles3904
    @maibemiles3904 3 года назад +2

    Ryan Patrick and Paul RPP... good thing no one was named Ian!

  • @ohmygosch
    @ohmygosch 3 года назад +1

    Keep the stories coming, please!

  • @keatonbrody3975
    @keatonbrody3975 3 года назад +2

    I work underground in a gold mine in Nevada, it doesn't take a big rock falling on you to hurt, just takes a little rock. You all be safe!

  • @chrischurch4551
    @chrischurch4551 3 года назад +7

    I'm not a climber, but blows my mind being a on wall for days. What's the fastest waterfall route has ever been climbed?

    • @hankzikakis4624
      @hankzikakis4624 3 года назад +2

      Not sure about waterfall specifically, but a comparable route on El Cap (about 3000 ft) has been climbed in less than 2 hours.

    • @zachsundborg1413
      @zachsundborg1413 2 года назад +1

      @@hankzikakis4624 water fall route is half that size and much harder than the nose, not comparable at all. I think the speed record is around 6.5 hours for WF

  • @abrahambrown5318
    @abrahambrown5318 3 года назад +1

    Really enjoying all the content please keep it coming

  • @cobraclarke203
    @cobraclarke203 3 года назад

    Keep the stories coming!! Love hearing bout epics. Thanks!!

  • @staleyexplores
    @staleyexplores 3 года назад +1

    Crazy story! Thanks for sharing.

  • @JesseUnderscoreMartin
    @JesseUnderscoreMartin 3 года назад +2

    I like this style of video

  • @muaddib6107
    @muaddib6107 3 года назад +1

    This was awesome, give us a podcast with These characters!

  • @Sicnus
    @Sicnus 3 года назад +1

    Love it Ryan! You are like our own Valley reporter. ;) I'm still hoping for that video idea I emailed you about. :) No one has done that before.

  • @purple0burtle
    @purple0burtle 3 года назад +1

    Thumbs up! Nice chat xxx

  • @brucevanpelt1740
    @brucevanpelt1740 3 года назад +1

    Really cool video

  • @ladnir
    @ladnir 3 года назад +1

    Great content!

  • @cooperspace90
    @cooperspace90 3 года назад +2

    This Ryan is also awesome!

  • @davids1716
    @davids1716 3 года назад +5

    The Patreon mic. Maybe we ought to donate just a bit more…

    • @jaredshearer7989
      @jaredshearer7989 3 года назад +1

      When the video started, I thought he was playing a recorder.

    • @davids1716
      @davids1716 3 года назад

      @@jaredshearer7989
      “Today on How Not to Highline we’re going to break test you…the audience” Pull out an actual recorder!

    • @jaredshearer7989
      @jaredshearer7989 3 года назад +2

      @@davids1716 Jenks is a superstar. No way he reads the comments. 😏

    • @davids1716
      @davids1716 3 года назад

      @@jaredshearer7989
      Yup!

  • @Phoenixhunter157
    @Phoenixhunter157 2 года назад +1

    This is amazing.

  • @sendit2873
    @sendit2873 2 года назад +1

    can I hold your stick lol Ryan S. is a beast climbing he has no fear and is very skilled at what he does

  • @loading_wait
    @loading_wait 3 года назад +1

    The new set at el cap is sick

  • @colinwatt00
    @colinwatt00 3 года назад +5

    I really enjoyed this video. Less RUclips-y = better.

  • @SK-fo3hk
    @SK-fo3hk 3 года назад +1

    This is awesome!

  • @alpardal
    @alpardal 3 года назад +14

    Great video!
    On a side note, it's a bit shocking to me how narrow-minded and narcissistic religious people can get sometimes: "if I was one day late I would have been killed, praise the Lord" - well, other people did get killed, not much Lord-praising there, I assume

    • @mitchellbarnow1709
      @mitchellbarnow1709 3 года назад +3

      That’s because religion is bulls*it!

    • @brentwalker3300
      @brentwalker3300 3 года назад +1

      Yeah, there isn't much critical thinking in the super religious community.

    • @Dodanos1
      @Dodanos1 3 года назад +1

      Exactly. Hoping that we as humans will be past superstitions slowly but surely.

    • @terraflow__bryanburdo4547
      @terraflow__bryanburdo4547 3 года назад +4

      @@Dodanos1Only to replace them with "woke ideology" and faith in the authority of bloodsucking government.

    • @maryl8614
      @maryl8614 3 года назад +7

      He just sounds happy to be alive to me, and who can blame him? I’d be excited to survive something like that.

  • @dmhawley13
    @dmhawley13 3 года назад +5

    You weren't to high?
    No comment.
    Lmao.

  • @adamwilkinson6679
    @adamwilkinson6679 3 года назад +1

    Love the mic

  • @jsEMCsquared
    @jsEMCsquared 3 года назад +2

    question, do bolts ultimately cause the rock to contract and expand and therefore cause erosion??

    • @AdamBen115
      @AdamBen115 2 года назад +2

      Bolts would only really cause erosion if they shifted or moved, which in that case, it wouldn't really be a good anchor. But in terms of cracking the rock due to expansion of the steel or stainless steel bolts, unless you have a lot of bolts (like bolts every inch or two) all lined up across a sketchy part of the rock, you might be able to break off a hunk.
      The epoxy is probably stretchy enough not to crack rocks with temperature changes if they're glue-ins. The hammer in bolts could cause a crack from thermal expansion, but the stainless steels thermal expansion coefficient is between 14 and 17 (10-6 m/mC) depending on the alloy, granites being 7.9-8.4. A comparable case for context is concrete (~8) and water/ice (51) in Canada. Concrete slabs over winter will crack from ice seeping in and freezing, forcing the concrete apart. The difference is that the bolts wouldn't apply nearly as much force on the granite that ice applies to concrete. Steel's thermal expansion coefficient is closer to granite at 10.8-12.5, which applies even less pressure.
      You would have to be trying to break the rock to have it crack due to the thermal expansion of the bolts.

  • @nateblakely4674
    @nateblakely4674 3 года назад +1

    Storytime is a great idea

  • @Revelation22_5
    @Revelation22_5 3 года назад

    I liked this format.

  • @ColeClimbs
    @ColeClimbs 3 года назад +1

    This was sick, cool podcasty feel but really personable, would love to see more

  • @chadillacinc
    @chadillacinc 3 года назад +2

    I enjoyed this story

  • @joaoandrebernardino
    @joaoandrebernardino 3 года назад +1

    More stories!!

  • @ralfrussel1950
    @ralfrussel1950 3 года назад +3

    Well, that's a mic. And by mic I mean story.

  • @ml.2770
    @ml.2770 6 месяцев назад

    14:08 But what I really want to know brah is did it go across the road dude?

  • @catherinebugden
    @catherinebugden 3 года назад +1

    Did you make it fall dude?

  • @Powderhorn916
    @Powderhorn916 3 года назад +1

    I like this guy

  • @cody5591
    @cody5591 3 года назад

    Fuckin rad mic! You change that and its gunna be such a mistake hahahaha best mic ever, love the stories too more of em!

  • @beginna
    @beginna 3 года назад +3

    Nice. I'd love to hear more authentic climbing stories. Can also be a bit longer than the "14-16 minutes of talking". ;) 👍

  • @BrendanWilliamsTutorials
    @BrendanWilliamsTutorials 3 года назад

    I’d be sweatin!

  • @chatttenn4814
    @chatttenn4814 3 года назад +1

    Porta ledge camping in a 60' cypress tree doesn't seem so sketch after I heard about tossing a pebble behind the giant lose flake they were camping on. I don't think I could have slept there, I would of been shi+++ bricks in bags up there!

    • @Xtreme_Airgun_Slugs
      @Xtreme_Airgun_Slugs 3 года назад

      I would have rapped off that wall faster that butter on a hot pan!

    • @chatttenn4814
      @chatttenn4814 3 года назад

      @@Xtreme_Airgun_Slugs Yeah you could have before the rock fall but after it's a no go. Big wallers are chill with camping up there on things like that, They probably all had a good laugh about the pebble toss.

  • @enigmacrk200
    @enigmacrk200 Год назад +1

    Shit I didn't know Kia the hitchhiker got out of jail!

  • @muchmore344
    @muchmore344 3 года назад +1

    are they not monitoring the rock faces? so if the rock picks up "speed" over the course of a week/month/year
    They are doing this in the swiss alps. automatic laser measuring

    • @mattgraham4340
      @mattgraham4340 3 года назад

      I doubt such a technique is applicable. I don't think this igneous dome exfoliation is comparable to typical avalanche systems.

    • @muchmore344
      @muchmore344 3 года назад

      @@mattgraham4340 why not. the rock does not go from 0 to ground in a single day. like he said that he could see the giant gaps. those would have develop over years. and if you monitor this development you could see if a section is getting worse, than send out someone that checks the rock

    • @adriansth
      @adriansth 3 года назад

      @@muchmore344 we do this in norway as well. Works pretty good on the rocks we have.

    • @mattgraham4340
      @mattgraham4340 3 года назад

      @@muchmore344 because my understanding is the motion before the collapse is mostly outwards and trivial distances before the collapse. Those giant gaps he was talking about, had probably been there for decades. Albeit, getting incrementally worse. The avalanches that you are talking about are some sort of aggregate of different materials that I suspect have a much larger plastic zone on their yield curve before failure. ruclips.net/video/nTAA-QOuhV0/видео.html

    • @MrEh5
      @MrEh5 3 года назад +1

      There has been some thermal imaging done. Exfoliating rock is a different temperature.

  • @Squids_Vlogs
    @Squids_Vlogs 3 года назад

    So scary
    RIP those who died 😔

  • @gimlisbeardcomb
    @gimlisbeardcomb 3 года назад

    Would love to learn more about why it takes so long to climb it

  • @StabBacker
    @StabBacker 3 года назад +2

    Loosing your hammer but not your life in that scenario would indicate to get the fuck down again, you've sort of cheated death at that point xD

  • @terraflow__bryanburdo4547
    @terraflow__bryanburdo4547 3 года назад +1

    The mic should have been a piton.

  • @sheloveswilby
    @sheloveswilby 3 года назад

    This was really interesting. I liked this.

  • @jefffoy530
    @jefffoy530 Год назад

    So wild🙏🤙✌️

  • @theloganpresley
    @theloganpresley 3 года назад

    ye, story was coo. Want more pls

  • @richardsmith9918
    @richardsmith9918 5 месяцев назад

    Epic

  • @Kraken_Meister
    @Kraken_Meister 3 года назад

    "Miguel Microphone... on a shtick"

  • @lisacolbert5987
    @lisacolbert5987 3 года назад

    Probably a super un-cool thing to ask and it’ll quickly expose me as a non-climber but , what’s the likelihood that decades of climbing on it and hammering various pieces of metal into it over and over , added to the fragility of the rock ? Please know , I’m in no way looking to pass blame ! And of course over the years (growing up camping , hiking and micro-summiting all over , from Big Sur to British Columbia/Alaska , I’ve seen giant old rock slides and probably stood on granite slabs that had once been attached above me - eons of freeze and thaw cycles , etc. . I just remember seeing climbing footage where it looks like an apparatus was being forced in a crag/crack in the exact place I’d pry at if I wanted to cause full-on separation . I know , long winded and silly Q but I can’t see you roll your eyes from where I am . Thanks ! P.S. Anyone ever seen that short film , “Solo” that the Sierra Club produced in the late 60s (?) . The one where the dude finds the cute little frog on a granite face and puts it in his pocket . Let’s it go on top . I found it on YT once . Nothing like the mad climbs ppl do nowadays but , yeah , for it’s time it was really something . P.P.S. I’m glad that Ryan (?) wasn’t a casualty . But it’s obvious you two young fellas have a rare attitude toward the risks you take and mortality . Way to fully live life !

    • @smartmonkey777
      @smartmonkey777 2 года назад +2

      In my humble opinion the bolts are almost inert and cause almost no damage. the likelihood of bolts contributing to this. What causes the rocks of mountains to collapse is water, the water seeps into a crack an then expands, it takes something like 1.5 million ( or more ) psi to contain "Ice" so ice can basically force apart any loose rock over time.

    • @ayeeniko
      @ayeeniko Год назад

      It’s more of an odds game. Regardless of if people are climbing on it rockfalls still happen. We have gravity to thank for that. Rock, especially rock the size of el cap, is fuckin heavy. Gravity really doesn’t want it up there. El cap is also popular to climb so they’ll likely be climbers present to witness a rockfall. If a tree falls in the forest and there’s nobody around, does it make a sound? You don’t hear about the rockfalls that happen in remote areas, because nobody sleeps below them!

  • @aza1479
    @aza1479 3 года назад

    I wish I was in Yosemite

  • @Ron-dt1cz
    @Ron-dt1cz 2 года назад

    Do took a giant whipper and loosened the rock the day before.

  • @petterlarsson7257
    @petterlarsson7257 3 месяца назад

    what even fell there?

  • @codyramseur
    @codyramseur 2 года назад

    Thanks be to lucky dice

  • @Version135
    @Version135 3 года назад

    Lol this guy is a riot.

  • @jaketarren
    @jaketarren 3 года назад

    So if I donate I'll get a stick mic of my own? Lol

  • @edevil4347
    @edevil4347 3 года назад

    Story time with climbing enthusiasts is a awesome idea. Podcasts suck .

  • @thebarnyard5633
    @thebarnyard5633 3 года назад

    Is it root or route? Fight!

  • @austinthrowsstuff
    @austinthrowsstuff 3 года назад

    why are you looking up when someone says rock? its like people when you yell fore and they dont duck lol

  • @maxwaters1461
    @maxwaters1461 2 года назад

    pITON pETE?

  • @TheJfizzle11
    @TheJfizzle11 3 года назад

    Haha ryan!

  • @notlandyn7677
    @notlandyn7677 3 года назад +2

    that is not the type of mic you pass back and forth
    you actually need to keep it further from your mouth so we don't have to listen to your breathing
    p.s. you sound the same as you do in every video and definitely nothing like a reporter ;)

  • @amsf1
    @amsf1 Год назад

    And this is why i don't climb

  • @mainemade300
    @mainemade300 2 года назад

    Texas flake

  • @ChowKnives
    @ChowKnives 3 года назад +1

    This is a comment.