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[fatboySlimfast]

A lot of the time I climb a lot better when I’m soloing because it is important, because you fucking pull super hard.

This is a thing Ive become more aware of as Ive got older, its probably not your climbing ability that will get you but external forces away from control... wet rock, loose hold etc etc.
last year I soloed main wall on Cryn Llas(sp?) about 3rd pitch up i realised that this was a bit out of hand and that no longer was my climbing ability the main consideration( i carried on but seriously considered climbing down, carrying a rucksack didnt help) The loose rock being the thing that freaked me the most. The exposure to that risk wouldnt be minimised by being a better climber, Im not suggesting no one should solo but dont kid yourself that there isnt an inherent danger in being a fuck long way up with no margin for error

[SA Chris]

Thinking further I do wonder if having several cameramen strung up along the route is actually a disadvantage. More likelyhood of something getting dropped / kicked off onto you, as well as having a camera thrust in your face could easily burst the "bubble"

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Thinking further I do wonder if having several cameramen strung up along the route is actually a disadvantage. More likelyhood of something getting dropped / kicked off onto you, as well as having a camera thrust in your face could easily burst the "bubble"

The cameramen who filmed the 60minutes touch on that.

[Doylo]

Like Fatboy says it doesn't matter how good you are its external forces you need to worry about. Especially when you re soloing a big wall for 3 hours..... theres a lot that can go wrong

[andy popp]

Or if your're onsight going off-route, something I had slightly traumatic experience of more than once. Obviously Honnold wasn't on these routes but he must solo onsight sometimes.

[Johnny Brown]

Having been on both ends a few times (stills not movies), I think its probably more stressful watching than doing. When you're climbing you know what the score is and you get on with it. When you're behind a camera you worry whether you're a distraction, or possibly an intrusion, and you have to put a lot of trust in the climber - that they know what they are doing and they aren't pushing the boat out for the camera.

[SA Chris]

Especially when you re soloing a big wall for 3 hours..... theres a lot that can go wrong

As Derek Hershey demonstrated.

[Snoops]

Quote from the 'interview' on cocktalk.

Jack: When you came over to the UK a few years ago, you did some Hard Grit, and soloed London Wall. Spell it out, how does this 'Triple' or some of the other things you've been doing compare to that?

   

[SA Chris]

Two word answer - "it doesn't"

Profound interview questions.

Next one - "if you could be any animal for a day, what would you choose?"

[Snoops]

It's  kind of like - but is it as hard as London Wall pant pant........

[duncan]

Amazing.  The focus required is incomprehensible to me.   

It's a good job Gary Gibson doesn't bolt much in Yosemite. 

[danm]

This reminds me about a conversation I had a few years back, with this super chilled and humble Italian guy called Stefano. Turned out he had soloed a few grade 7's on the Marmolada. He said the danger and difficulty wasn't the climbing itself, as grade 7 feels pretty steady if you regularly climb in the 8's, but what happens if you go off route, alone, and cannot reverse? At this point I realised he was talking about soloing these routes onsight. 

I'm quite glad to be a coward sometimes!

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Reminds me of a young Ayrton Senna.  Looks and passion

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Interview with Honnold (starts at 08:12)




(Includes interview with the protagonists of Alistair Lee's 'Moonflower'and Tyler Stableford who shot the recent short on Steve House).

[hairich]

Many years ago i watched dan osman and thought you will be dead within a year.sure enough he was

[SA Chris]

Or is he?

[Baldy]

It is less the foot slip that baffles me,

but the point at which he clips in, then instantly keeps climbing!
I just dont understand, I can see the logic in keeping moving, but he didnt even take a breather, or a second to think about what was coming up.
(unless of course that was all cunningly editted out)

Phew!