Chamonix's Most EXTREME Via Ferrata | Climbing Daily Ep.1485 

A suggestion for all the beginners out there unsure about their endurance: bring with you a lanyard (dynamic rope) and use them for (and ONLY for) resting. While the via ferrata kits will save your life (they are done to make you endure a factor 2 fall) they are not done for resting. Whenever you want/need to rest, attach the lanyard to a metal step, keep it always in tension (“these lanyards must only be used when the potential fall factor is less than 1.” - petzl 2019)… and rest happily on your harness.

I Always love to see Hugo climb, just makes him light up so much!

I used to live just up the road from here so did this workout many times. I once went up with my friend who, as well as a climber is a ballerina. When we reached the rope traverse she started ballet dancing on it which was pretty amazing.

"I don't understand metal. Why am I holding onto METAL?" Hahaha amazing. Great video guys!

You really don't want to fall on a via ferrata. Bring gloves, you will touch a lot of metal. Fingerless gloves are the best, as they allow you to do a bit of rock climbing. Not all the routes have so many metal holds. Use good boots, and trust them on the footholds. The rigid sole holds nicely. You can use the cable to climb if you feel unsure or unsafe. Grab the cable, plant the feet on the wall, stick the butt out and go up. It's pumpy, it's ignorant but it can help you in a pinch. Bring a quickdraw to rest if the route is long. You want to absolutely avoid mistakes, rest, don't get too tired. Fun fact: if you're doing via ferrata right, you'll have pumped legs before pumped arms

Ferratas are fun, but once you climb a certain grade it just comes down to exposure and endurance. A rest sling is always a good idea, especially if you run into a traffic jam it can really help you. The one thing to note is that falling is prohibited. So if you're new best start easy, take your time and know your limits.

I believe...may be wrong...but one of the origins of these fixed climbing routes was the Great War and Italian and opposing Austrian troops using fixed ladders etc to move through the Dolomites when fighting their mountain warfare. I climbed there and there are old trenches, tunnels through mountains and sections of barbed wire etc. Post war guides used the routes to take tourists into the mountains. The new stuff often runs alongside the old wooden ladders. It was a challenging place to fight and casualties from the weather and avalanche were dreadful. The kit has moved on a bit since my climbing. Gloves help as the wires can trash your palms. Clip on facing one away and one towards. You really don't want to fall as some 'fixed points' are up to ten metres apart which if on a ladder would be a long drop. I clipped to some rungs on ladders when I was feeling very exposed to shorten the potential drop. It can be very tiring and be prepared to climb past or over other climbers who have 'frozen' and being talked to by their guide. Cicerone guides are excellent to read about the routes and take along. Some you just drive to a car park...clip on and away you go. Thanks for your enthusiasm both.

Would be nice to see a controlled fall using the kit to see how it all works - Matt next time you're reviewing a gym...?

Great video I suggest a strong pair of gloves is also useful

‘I’m alive!’ - me after every dang via Ferrata.

Reminds me of the via Ferrata in sixt fer a cheval. A great substitute for real climbing as it gets you to places impossible for the average rock climber. Highly recommended

How many looked up falling on via Ferrata after he said not to lol

Looks like a pretty recently bolted via ferrata! Super well protected it seems, I wonder which grade this is? Also, with so many metal holds I would use ferrata gloves :D

As an Italian, I am just loving the cockney-ish way you pronounce "Via ferra'a" 😁

Having done some trail building In Ansel Adams & John Muir Wilderness areas, I would love to see how these Ferrattas are established/opened/put up. Truly some clever engineering

Take via ferrata gloves next time - it will make quite a difference with metal and humidity... also another product for the gear show.

Love the variation by including via ferrata! 🤟🏻

Guys, you should try more real via ferratas in the Austrian Alps or the Italian Dolomites. This one did not look too hard since it involved a lot of using metal secured spots. Pumpy yes but not hard. Usually via ferratas involve a lot more rock climbing and using the cables only as support if you fall. One nice and long ferrata is Lipella - in the Dolomites. And use gloves, it helps a lot. Keep it going! :)

incredibly great people who have made this extreme path

Awesome ferrata 😍 I think that it would be safer to keep a larger distance between each person when climbing straight up in order to reduce risk of one climber falling on another

great add you guys!

We did this a few months ago, as a rest day, but now I dont feel as bad for being super sweaty and super pumped ha ha, great day out

I found that bigger carabiner are always better, here in Italy sometimes you have to clip into big chains instead of the metal wire, and with the smaller one that i have, it's quite uncomfortable and potentially dangerous. Great vid BTW, that ferrata look really cool!

I’ll have to have a go of this, never knew it existed!

Quite an interesting engineering feat. Would be interested in the Via Ferrata Crew & how they put routes up

great video! one question: which shoes did you guys use?

10:34 Ever heard of highlining, Matt?

Anyone know the name of this via Ferrara? It looks amazing!

I would suggest to wear a specific pair of gloves to improve confort and also some of the VF kits have an extra hook where you can put a carabiner for resting yourself (you can also add a dedicated lanyard). BTW, you should take a look at the Via Ferrata we have in Spain. Some of the seem to be made only for circus acrobats 😵

Hey! Great video! I really love watching your videos for tips, tricks and often times just relaxing! I have a kinda weird question: I am planning on recording my via ferrata tour this year, so I bought an action cam just for this reason. I have no experience in filming anything... Is it recommended to turn the electronic image stabilization on or off for via ferrata and rock climbing videos in general?

Hi, I live there and I've done this via ferrata, it's not in Chamonix but in Saint Gervais.

That looks like so much fun

How is a rope used in conjunction w/the via ferrata kit? Do you use a single rope like an 8.9 rope? And what length?

Didn’t you do an indoor via Ferr course at a climbing gym in the UK?

Y’all should check out high lining, it’s a great addition to climbing

This looks fun 😍

Never knew there was a name for this. Now I do.

You were dead scared 😂

you did not do the last section ? It's also nice and pumpy

great video

couple makers now produce dynamic slings made of essentialy 8mm dynamic rope, think these are safe? has anyone tested them? I suppose on a via ferrata, you might have max fall-factors like 3-4 which sounds pretty scary no matter what your protection looks like.

Im not the only one who read "Lockdown" instead of "look down" in the thumbnail...

2:30 - DON'T clip both of them the same direction! Always have one carabiner that is facing the other way then other one! What you did might be very dangerous - both of them might open if rock or metal bar (very close to them on 2:30) touch them.

I'm staying in Saint Gervais in September with a couple of mates. Guess what's on our TODO list now??

Was thinking "yeah I'm up for that" until I saw the rope traverse and then it's "nope, never"

Bangelijk om te ondernemen.

I wonder if there's anything like this in the UK

Why the UK don't have that much Via Ferrata routes available? Is there some sort of regulation restriction against it?

“Its all about the size” he says......Hugo’s eyebrows jump.

When walking across the wire, you guys had your feet perpendicular to the wire. Is there a reason for that? I know on a log, keeping your feet parallel gives you more balance, and Im wondering if that is any different. @EpicTV Climbing Daily

Man I bet that route took a long time to build

Am I the only one that finds Via Ferratas way more scary than climbing?

If your in this area bit want something a bit easier try the one at fort l'Ecluse it is in france though... but super close to the border

Would you not suggest to put the two caribeners in opposing locking directions?

Never knew judge Rinder was in to climbing 🧗‍♀️

Hey guy's ! You forgot the last part of the via 😉

If you are into via ferrata, check Florac :) - you will love it.

I’d love to do this

la via ferrata n'est pas du tout à Chamonix, mas 25 km plus bas en aval au Fayet au parc thermal

What was the route called????

If the rope is horizotal, you can use something static. You will just fall a few cm

where is this!?

Surely on the bridge would you not clip in to the wire above bridge not the bridge it's self? if the bridge collapses you are going down with it!

10:30 You clipped both of your lines to the middle cable, your buddy previous clipped one on the left and the other to the right, basically spreading risk over 2 cables and taking less risk right..?

How good where the guys who put the steps and metalwork in the rock?

How were your hands after that via ferrata 😂😂😂

2:34 You put both gates towards the wall. Someone (salesguy who studied alpinism) told me today best would be to put one gate towards the wall and one towards yourself. Do you agree on that?

Via FERRRRANTIC !!

What's the name of the Via Ferrata?

Ferrata Curalla?

2:30 you clipped in wrong. The gates on the carabiners need to be opposing.

I'd love to do this route. Anyone any idea where I'd start?

Seems like if you fall on the ladder, you could go a ways before the biner hits the next connection in the cable. Meanwhile, you are smashing into rebar and rock. And if you are hanging, there is no way to jumar back up? So, yeah, don't fall.

Pretty sure you should clip the biners in opposite ways,

Via Ferrata in Turkey : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OufUVBVnYZ0.html

If you keep your feet in line with the wire that would have been a lot easier and you would have been more stable

it seemed really really easy to me until the rope traverse

Nice video, but you make basic mistake. In Poland in rock low level climbing course when you use two bent-gate carabiners (express carabiner) almost always you must rmember to use "mirror lock". That mean on of bent-gate carabiner (bent gate) look to rock, and second gate of carabiner look to you. I hope you knew what I want to write. The instructors talk very ofen about this type of connetions with any asecuration points. Its much less posible to open accidentaly two "mirrored" carabiner, When you use carabiner as you have in video its very very easy. Sometimes instructors take a people (who don't make mirror connetion) to special rock way and (add)/make asecuration with a "student". In my group (10 peoples) 8 fall of the wall, beacouse rock open, and unlock their carabiner. Sorry for my english, I hope you understood what I want to write. I wish you finish lot of great and hard rotues in mountians.

CAMP and Edelrid makes the best kits right now. For anyone being interested in it...

C’est la via ferrata de la station thermale à Saint-gervais !! Une des plus dures de france . Je l’ai faite au complet ( les 3 parties ) en septembre 2018. Les 2 premières parties sont normales. Mais la 3eme partie est tuante !! Par contre vous n’avez pas fait la 3eme partie !!

Why did i think the thumbnail said lockdown. Clearly this lockdown is getting to me.

When climbing ladders you can take one carabiner off and place it on the rungs. That way if you fall you won’t slide all the way back down the ladder

Leather gloves guys. That metal sliver off the cables will trash your hands.

Looks easy. Where's the video of you doing it without clips? How come no one else is there? Is this free to do?

Ils ont pris l'echappatoire, ou bien ils ont aménagé autrement la sortie

What a pumper!

Hi, what is the name of this ferrata? This does not look so difficult it looks like maybe C, or D grade.

via ferata "bukit kelam" in west Borneo, Indonesia 🇲🇨.

Bro the one at the Brevent is waaaaayy scarier

Doesn't "girth hitching" remove 50% of the breaking strength of the lanyard? Why not use double locking carabiners instead?

Guys you should actually clip one of the carabina to the steps and one to the line. First of all it will prevent a big fall in case you fail it, secondly if the main cable collapse you are dead. Also having a small carabina at the base of your equipment will provide you a nice rest on the via Ferrara , especially at the end (guys why did u give up?)

isn’t better to hook 1in the bars? it’s safer if you fall maybe don’t have to fall all the way down to the next wire hook

This one is easy Go to thone guys

I can't see myself ever doing that but it does look super cool and amazing.

just fyi, there is a T in via ferrata 😂

looks easy just go free solo :D

LOL if that is Chamonix's "most extreme via ferrata" then u guys had better get off to Spain LOL

Wow

what's making the audio dodgy is the cliche background "music".

Brilliant!!! Any chance of showing the location of the Via ferrata on a map please?