Alex Megos Sends A Wild 8c Dyno Pitch | Epic Climber, Ep. 2

four of the klemming world's best all-around athletes Tommy Cole well Kamil Arrington Alex Meagles and asel Finlay traveled to the climbing Mecca Chamonix France for the four days there we'll need all the skills to climb another freedom UTP truth open the secret door the garden try some of the areas are the sport road and sand a classic crack climb on league-leading MIDI for climbers forward and for completely different climbing style in the amazing move Lama see in the previous episode of epic climber the two teams attempted to free a long-standing multi-pitch project I mean inherent and surprises even yourself I easily on site in the 7c / third pitch get steep in hard after breaking a cricket old on the full-speed way harder to meet for Jeezy's way through the overhanging roof by himself facing 8 a water boat about a hundred feet of steep climbing has no chalk at all it's kind of dirty because this is this route hasn't been climbed and so I just start climbing really slowly trying to be super careful Oh with climbing anything can happen and he came flying off the top it's pretty dirty I'm like kind of flipping off everything Tommy Sports surprises everyone and by uncited 7c plus I mean I said the bar high nights asel stone to step up so yam bit nervous that I might get really pumped and fall off and fail Alex yes come on yeah there's not many climbers like hazel that women that are bold traditionalists that like to be scared that's really rare hello you got it you know Hazel's very much a team player and she likes to push herself mentally and physically but it's not about competing with with other women and I think that's actually pretty rare in climbing yeah hazel get through the mutable crook sequences night stamps you see if Alex can live up to his reputation and on site yet another hardline Alex is a total BCC I think he trains all the time the fact that he did realization our biography third tribe totally blows my mind Oh I think I sometimes have to be a bit more patient because sometimes I get overexcited and like try to do a route as fast as possible I'm trying to stop him from going too soon he's got more chance of doing the move if he has a longer rest I'm very very bad at waiting the crux is a bowler problem basically through the roof with a crazy dyno to the right catching a good hole but but still too hard I know because you're dining off a small crimp and after that it's a very technical face climb about a day a day plus I'm a little bit nervous because it took him so many tries to do the jump the Healey now fails on the wall above they'll have to jump again Alex becomes the first person in the world to free climb the roof each these 80 crooks complete all that stands between them and the first ascent are the final pitches to the summit how was that it was hard we have a city small sharp yeah yeah yeah I fully like filleted my finger oh great thank you thank you congratulations yes graduate achieving the first ascent of an 8c multi-pitch is no small feat so Alex and A's are rightly proud to write their names in a guide book while Sturm and Emily are already setting the site on the next challenge

Channel: EpicTV

Views: 287,620

Rating: 4.8699923 out of 5

Keywords: Climbing (Sport), Balm Wall, France (Country), Alex Megos, Hazel Findlay, Tommy Caldwell, Emily Harrington, EpicTV, The North Face (Business Operation), La Sportiva, Tenaya, Patagonia Inc. (Business Operation), DMM, Smith Optics, Petzl (Business Operation), Sterling Rope, Epic Climber, Chamonix (City/Town/Village), wild sideways

Id: YM510IO8P_w

Length: 6min 16sec (376 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 23 2015