Great pic.
Fuck that.
These freesolo guys are crazy impressive.
Is he wearing jeans?
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Is that not a rope right under his butt?
Yeah, it's there, just hard to see
Yep I missed that.
The wall after you finally got that mosquito
I understand, hey go climb a big rock. cool.
i don't understand doing it without a basic life line attached to you to ...ya know, prevent .... rapid inertia.
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Ooh, energy of the gods, adrenaline surge
Won't stop 'til I hit the ground, I'm on my way for sure
Up here in the air, this will never hurt
I'm on my way to impact, taste the high-speed dirt
Here is a much better article written by a legitimate climbing publication that actually knows anything at all about climbing:
https://gripped.com/news/adam-ondra-makes-second-free-ascent-of-dawn-wall-in-yosemite/
The article says that he was the first person to free solo the Dawn Wall, which is false. He wasn't the first to climb it, and he didn't free solo it either.
Tommy Caldwell was the first person to climb it, and nobody has free soloed it, and the likelihood of anyone ever doing that is basically zero.
Wait, it's El Capitan a real mountain?? I tough it was invented by Jacob Wysocki for this
One does not simply free solo El Capitan.
He doesn't. There's a rope below him.
The cameraman, though...
...is likely standing on the ground with a drone controller.