Alex Honnold Breaks Down VIRAL Free Soloing Clips

so they're climbing up this wall to get to some salt I guess oh my God look at that wow that's really high oh my God these like poor little poor little mountain goats they're climbing all the way up there to get some salt that seeps out of these uh rocks in this dam look at that they got it oh you know worth it yeah yeah I mean you just wonder like do you pan out and there's just like a pile of like 50 goat bodies on the bottom of this thing it doesn't seem so funny enough I was once uh climbing this big wall in Mexico and uh we saw a bighorn sheep scrambling across some Talus and we both and we were like really struggling with the talus and we looked over and we're like oh wow the the Big Horn is just moving so effortlessly like it's so easy to be an animal and then the freaking Bighorn biffed it and like tumbled down the towels field and like and got up at the bottom and was was okay but we were like oh my God like even animals occasionally just take freaking whippers you know it's like you know you do this stuff enough every once in a while you slip and fall oh my god dude that's that is that does not Inspire confidence though like when you see an animal that has literally over like Millennia or millions of years through through natural selection uh developed the greatest climbing abilities um when you see one of them eat I guess maybe not all of them are born with the same genetic potential all right we got a mama bear here oh with a baby bear where's the baby no not a not a baby bear it's a low res and so uh oh at least I might say oh there's the baby oh that's pretty cute oh now that you see you're walking it doesn't look nearly as hardcore well she's on a Ledge I wonder where this is check this technique out so I think baby climbed himself or herself into a little bit of a dead end here a pickle yeah is that is that with the technical term yeah she climbed herself into a pickle look at her dog climb this is like Tommy no this is like watching uh watching my daughter like scramble around trying to figure stuff out like this is so darling it's really natural how like animals and babies move like it's like some solid like flagging there but I'm like tense watching this too because I'm like oh I guess Mom doesn't care yeah you don't want to see a baby bear fall to its death that'd be so sad all right I got another one here that um this is pretty this is pretty insane dude check out the technique on this guy all right y'all just a quick second here to tell you about the sponsor of today's video which is the Kaya Climb app if you love bouldering if you're serious about bouldering this is hands down the best app to track and log your sends whether you're climbing in your gym that participates or at any number of bouldering areas out there including Bishop Red Rock Joe's Squamish Leavenworth 35 Plus bouldering areas are in there with beautiful photos and GPS pinned Boulders forget about scraping things from YouTuber Mountain project and my favorite feature over 300 000 Community uploaded beta videos so if you're getting stopped out there you can find some beta that you need right there in your hand there's a free version you can check it all out or for Kaya Pro which gives you all sorts of extra features you can hit that link below you get 20 off and then I get a little bit of love too so I can keep making these videos for you thanks I mean typically monkeys you know I mean monkeys are the the ultimate climbers this guy is not going to be contained in his enclosure this guy would definitely win a World Cup that's for sure he would dominate The World Cups oh yeah yeah well he made short work of the enclosure yeah he's out but he's not out well he would be if he wanted to be he's probably just like well they give me free food in here let's hang out and do whatever I want that's the whole the whole enclosure thing means a lot less when you know you can get out of it whenever you want then it's like he's just choosing to stay in his home he's like got no Predators I have free food it's pretty chill he's just like all the zookeepers are watching and he's like look I can get out I just want you to know I'm choosing not to get out yeah exactly he's like I do what I want laughs it's it's it's the start here I gotta refresh this real quick it's the start when he doesn't get when he doesn't latch he does it back and then does a backflip yeah I I hope to see more World Cup competitors do backflips when they don't you know when people try to do a paddle Dyno and don't stick it right right really want to see the backflip Dismount try that Daniel Woods that might be in a couple years when they add a style component to the bouldering scores people be like well and then I added a double twist and a backflip dismount style points on uh so it'll become like a figure skating yeah I once saw a squirrel fall off a cliff too same kind of thing at a sport Craig like hiked up to the Crag and this huge cave and we got there and there was a squirrel like 25 feet up the wall just fighting for life trying to get to the top but the top is like over 100 feet away and it made it a ways and then fell and miraculously stuck this one brand sticking out of the one tree in the middle of this huge cave and uh and so it like stuck it right before the ground we were like oh my God it was uh but like watching him skitter his way up the cave were like well there's no way he's gonna make it like this is insane oh my God good though because like I feel like you have stories uh of of uh popping off of a solo and landing on the top of a tree or grabbing a branch as well no no I just kind of landed the bottom but yeah yeah same same sort of thing I mean that's the thing is I think at the fundamentals we're all just animals trying to navigate the natural world you know it's like we all get into the same things yeah well I mean we don't know I certainly don't but well you could if you were climbing a lot of interest places than the red you know it's just because you're climbing at the red and it's all like nice flat base really good infrastructure you know you gotta gotta go do more adventurous big walls we will not we will not be having a struggle episode where I'm going up some multi-pitch solo with you but uh but I I appreciate what you've but maybe we could maybe we could okay in general I only have a policy that uh that I'll take anybody stolen if they've climbed v15 or 515 and so and so far that's worked pretty well yeah basically yeah if somebody yeah well no if you really wanted to I mean I would consider it but basically if somebody climbs at that level then you're just like you know they're gonna be fine like it's right it's fine right well uh that would have to go through my wife won't even let me get a motorcycle so I I don't think we'll be here I think motorcycles motorcycles way more dangerous than going soloing five six I guess that's true well um it's still not gonna happen but I appreciate I appreciate the confidence that you have in me my man uh yeah yeah put it on a back burner for you know whatever yeah well like my next thing that I want to do that's a little bit more harrowing is go storm chasing one of my friends is is like the like preeminent tornado chaser in the country his name's Reed Timber and he gets like all this footage like he drives into like the center of tornadoes and he has this vehicle called the Dominator that like can withstand a tornado and and so that'll be the next crazy thing I do and then if I survive that when I survive that then maybe Cara will let me get out and do some like maybe like uh what's the one that I did out there that was pretty chill um solar slab yeah yeah exactly but I was like going into a tornado seems a lot more dangerous and a lot less predictable than selling a slabby five six yeah but like if you're just like sitting in a vehicle I don't know um speaking of which picked up and sucked up into the air see this is another thing that Magnus can do with you is go storm chasing that'll get you out of your comfort zone yeah thank you thank you

Channel: The Struggle Climbing Show

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Id: AYPIu1ARye4

Length: 8min 16sec (496 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 11 2023