This is some drone footage of a climber successfully summiting a rocky, snow-covered peak. It’s beautiful, sure, but I’d be lying if I said that looks like a good time to me. That looks cold and dangerous. And while I’m all about danger, I don’t do the cold. I do
This is a video from Insider of pro ice climber and Red Bull athlete (why climb when you can have all the wings you want for free?) Will Gadd rating ice climbing scenes from 9 different TV shows and movies for realism. Selections include climbs from Game Of Thrones, The
This is a video of 154-pound rock climber Magnus Midtbø competing with 375-pound strongman ‘The Norwegian Hulk’ in a biblical David vs Goliath grip strength competition, using seven different styles of grips to see who can lift the most weight. Despite his diminutive size, Magnus manages to beat the strongman
This is a video of climber Gus Ryan free soloing/Spider-Manning the near horizontal Zombie Roof at Smoke Bluff Wall in Squamish, British Columbia. That’s cool. TRUE STORY: I actually just rewatched Free Solo this week with my girlfriend because she’d never seen it before. She said I reminder her a
This is a video of a man trying to impress the camerawoman (possibly his mother) with his hanging skills by transitioning from a pull-up bar to a hangboard he has mounted above the doorway, and tearing the board off the wall and eating backwards shit in the process. Gee, who
This is a video of British rock climber/possible faun Johnny Dawes demonstrating his no-hands climbing technique, first on a relatively small stone slab, then on a much larger and higher climb. He’s definitely got the skills. AND the tweed suit I 100% expected to see as soon as I read
This is a video of a team of sherpas calmly rescuing a Mount Everest climber who falls while crossing a ladder bridge above a crevasse at the Khumbu Icefall. How cool and collected they are — those are definitely the people you want rescuing you from otherwise certain death. Per