https://www.youtub...atch?v=rLp5hlyrtnE


Not my video I just found it on reddit.

Question for the climbers here: what do you do to get yourself into the right state of mind so you don't lose your shit on a climb like this? Even watching this video from the safety of my desk made me have a psychological and physiological reaction that would almost certainly be fatal if
I were halfway up a 900-foot chimney. How do you learn to ignore that?

Holy fuck! how did this guy climb this with those heavy balls of steel in his pants

Holy FUCK that made my palms sweat. I think I could have climbed the ladder relatively easily but climbing up an electrical chord is fucking nuts... That dude has officially earned my respect. Thank's for posting this, Baldran!

i must be getting REALLY older and wiser- that's just insane, a gust of wind and he would be dogfood.

made me actually back away from my monitor just looking at it! LOL

That's just asking to be a stain on the ground, climbing things is one thing, but climbing stacks like that, in that state is just asking for trouble.

Posted by Baldran Question for the climbers here: what do you do to get yourself into the right state of mind so you don't lose your shit on a climb like this? Even watching this video from the safety of my desk made me have a psychological and physiological reaction that would almost certainly be fatal if I were halfway up a 900-foot chimney. How do you learn to ignore that?

I'm an avid climber and have been for a while. I consistently climb 5.12's in Trad gear and I can say that you definitely can learn the skill to quiet the mind. The first time I did a 2000ft + climb I felt fine until about mid way through the climb and I started to "think" about where I was and what I was doing and questioning my protection placement. Then, I had to really work to push that to the back of my mind and get back laser focused on what I was doing. So, basically it's all about quieting the mind and focusing intensely on one thing. . . The Climb.

This climb to be is basically what us climbers would call free soloing. A scary proposition but something you can practice up until you make a mistake, which will most likely be fatal.

If anyone recently saw the Cliff Bar release about dropping several climbers from their sponsorship ranks they cited the reason they dropped them was to an attempt to not encourage "free soloing"

google "free soloing" to find out more about the mental stat and "free soloing flow state" There is a biological state called "flow," that's what you are trying to achieve.

I free solo, been climbing for years. You have to trust your skill, but here is a guy trusting a decaying abandoned tower. Eventually, your luck will run out if you push it long enough.

Overcompensating. Anyone else would have climbed a 140-meter chimney.

This guys got a lot of trust in those cables lol

The climb down would be more psychologically challenging than the way up for me! But wow that guy is nuts...props to him.

That was very impressive! It is something I too, would jump at in a second. We only live once, and I'd hate to be in my deathbed thinking "I wish I had done that climb when I was physically capable instead of being a pussy."

The trick is to be drunk, OR, to listen to the words of a wise woman that once said:

"There's always gonna be another mountain
I'm always gonna wanna make it move
Always gonna be an uphill battle
Somebody's gonna have to lose
Ain't about how fast I get there
Ain't about what's waitin' on the other side
It's the cliiiiiiimmmb..."

Posted by A Through Z Explorations "There's always gonna be another mountain I'm always gonna wanna make it move Always gonna be an uphill battle Somebody's gonna have to lose Ain't about how fast I get there Ain't about what's waitin' on the other side It's the cliiiiiiimmmb..."

Beat me to it

Posted by turtl Beat me to it

Did I?
See, the thing is you have to come in like a wrecking ball.

It's not the climb I'm impressed with, it's the dumb-ass walking around the obviously crumbling rim and the steel beams across the opening. I can barely walk upright on the ground let alone trying to skip over rivets and welds on a six-inch-wide beam 500 feet off the ground. You'll read about one of these skinny Europeans splattering on the ground sometime in the future, I'm sure.
The climb itself, once past the six-story climb up the cable, is just a ladder. I wouldn't be walking on that iron grate either. I've had shit fall out from under me that looked MUCH sturdier than that. Then again, I'm not a one-hundred and ten pound teenager in skinny-jeans either.

Wow… That cable climb is nuts. Then at the top… woooo boy

click to view

So proud

Posted by Baldran Question for the climbers here: what do you do to get yourself into the right state of mind so you don't lose your shit on a climb like this?

Drink water, breathe, stretch; don't look up or down - only focus on your holds. That said, big fucking NOPE towards climbing those types of cables for such a long way.

hats off to that guy.
me personally… FUCK THAT!