A video about my four year journey to climbing and mastering my hardest ever tree climb; The Porcupine Tree! Check out Rungne: rungne.info/NoahKane Use the code NOAH15 for 15% off everything! Thanks for watching!
Having the confidence to pull off those last moves is incredible man. I can tell you have worked so hard to make this a reality. Congrats man, unbelievably awesome to have so much confidence in your abilities and just send it!
Being a kid was such a free experience even in the worst of times. Recreating that feeling as an adult after a lifetime of programming is a beautiful thing.
Hey Noah, hope you are well. I respect your decisions to do this solo but to add in to all the other comments here - I climbed hard like you but had a 100ft ground fall last summer and broke 26 bones, had a helivac, 1 month hospital, 2 months wheelchair, I thought I was going to die while waiting for rescue. Just food for thought. I never thought it would happen to me.
100ft fall and you are still alive, and just two months of wheelchair... you are a hero! 🌟 thanks for sharing, we never think it will happen to us until it does. The risk is huge :)
Free soloing has always and will always be an aspect of climbing. They are irrevocably linked by climbing's history. What many do not understand about soloing is that the climbers are not doing it just for the attention it garners, but as an expression of supreme confidence in one's climbing ability at a certain level or on a particular climb. Most solo-ists would do these climbs for themselves whether there were cameras or not, as it comes with an amazing feeling of self confidence and accomplishment. That said, it is important to educate new climbers about the risks of soloing and give them details about what it takes to even attempt such a thing so that people who are not prepared do not endanger themselves.
Lol fancy way of describing stupidity. That's almost akin to driving without a seatbelt or ignoring soeed limits due to supreme confidence in one's own abilities. At the end of the day, it's a cheap way to get more thrill and views due to the potential loss of life. Sad how little we value life nowadays
@@BuffPomskyit's only stupid to you. These people have different priorities, and different skills. Death means less to them because they're not afraid of it. But of course, you are incapable of fathoming that because you are a pathetic, simple animal.
@SpiritsofSouls It has nothing to do with not valuing life. I’ve done a couple free solos, and I can assure you I value my life very much. I didn’t film it, or even tell most people I know about it. It was purely for me, and they are experiences I value dearly.
I almost got a little emotional watching you send the end of that route, that was incredible, great work, its been beyond cool to see you progress through your videos over the years but the tree climbing you do has always really fascinated me, I feel like this is somewhat of a Magnum Opus and testament to how far you all have gone with this style of climbing, keep at it this is inspiring (:
I wanted to see the full downclimb. To me as a free climber that is the most interesting part. I weigh if i'll be able to downclimb before climbing in general, so to skip the pumpy crag bit on the downclimb is so frustrating. If you Noah Kane read this, gimme a quick explainer as to why the cut of the footage and also how was it? Did you go a different safe route? Did you shimmy down the crack? I need to know!!!!
Second this. If possible Noah, post a short of the downclimb, us climbers would be interested! Since its a tree I was wondering about the downclimb on every nearly every move of the climb upwards. Awesome climb and video though.
based on the limited clips at the end that showed the descent, it kind of looks like he came down on a different tree?? but i would also be so interested in the footage of that or at least a quick explanation because it was also on my mind for the entire video!
I've been following you since Climbing Giants and this has to be one of your best videos yet! Both in film making and in climbing!! You had me glued to the screen the whole time. Really an amazing work. You are your friends are pioneering a whole new type of climbing and it's great that you are sharing it. Thanks and keep up the great work 💪🏼
This should not be "a new type of climbing", no one should be encouraging other people to go into some of the few pockets we have left of ecosystems like this and doing this, you cant treat these trees like a rock face, they are too ecologically important and way more sensitive to human use.
wow, I had sweaty palms the whole time. I can imagine though that once you have the climb dialled and you breath and focus you must enter some other state of mind, especially with the sound of the trees in the wind, your mind just shuts off and your body carries you.
this is so awesome! Sometimes while climbing I will imagine not having a rope, and it scares the shit out of me every time without fail. You just free soloing your hardest treeclimb like that is incredible to me.
Wow, genuine goosebumps watching this. And I'm clapping and repeatedly yelling "amazing!" in my room at 1 am watching the end where you sent it. Powerful stuff man, thank you so much for sharing.
Man such a banger video. there really is no feeling like looking out over the open air and embracing the fact that youre there, on the rock or in the trees, like a bird in the sky. Its probably how flying feels. Great stuff man
This is the first video I’ve ever immediately subscribed and liked as soon as I clicked on it. I’ve seen him before but this “tree solo” struck a nerve with me. Good job my friend.
The one arm hang at the end is heinous 🤯 Such a beautiful climb and really glad the send was only the sounds of the moment and not music/narrating. Very visceral and why I love climbing.
I was planning to skip to the no-ropes part of the video, but so glad I didn't. Needs the ropey part to make the full story. Thanks for sharing these awesome, intimate moments with us.
After discovering Leo Urban and Tarzan Movement and getting into climbing trees myself (started bouldering about 2 years ago) im just fully in love with this piece of Art right here. Cinematography is just as on point as your climbing an commitment is and it really is just beautiful to whiteness. I busted out having a laugh of joy as soon as you reached the top out and I felt it genuinely in me, just like I genuinely felt the way you must've been feeling when I first stood in the Top branches of 9-10m high crown of a tree. And I really appreciate the way you look at things, generally. I enjoyed this very much, thank you for that :)
I was going to ask, as someone who knows very little about climbing, aside from watching Magnus Midtbo, is Leo considered the absolute pinnacle when it comes to tree climbing? I assume he is. I didn't realise other people climbed trees like this, to be honest. It's seriously impressive.
I honestly don't know if there even is a bigger tree-climbing community of some sort. But if there is I consider myself part of it and for me personally, Leo definitely is the Alex Honnold of tree-soloing. Greetings from Germany my guy @@thitherword
This makes me find even more impressive how good monkeys are on climbing trees. People look so weak and clumsy compared to them. Amazing how it is easy for them.
I used to climb trees all the time when I was a kid but I’m more drawn to _descending_ rather than ascending nowadays. I’m drawn to the idea of climbing into deep dark caves 💚 lovely video thank you 😊
it must be so scary going up but when you finally get there it must be so serene because there are no ropes or equipment holding you down, just you and nature.
this was an intimate moment of focus flow and determination that gives us a look unto the fears and growth into maturity that lends a moment of flow strength and core love for nature that drives motivates and pushes the limits of humanity, after I watched this I had thoughts about this is why you tube exist to lend us a fleeting glimpse into those moments that otherwise we would not witness,, keep climbing keep pushing thanks for the content as I feel we all have that tree that mountain, that moment we say in our head this is scary, what if ,how can I achieve this, sometimes its more then a boy and a tree it is that sacred naked moment between you and the elemental the forest and the singular aspect of the naked climb, gratitude for the sharing
I used to free climb pine trees as a kid, when I was 8 years old I was climbing some kind of tree can’t tell you the exact name. I ended up putting to much trust in a branch that was dead, ended up falling about 25ft and snapping my arm in 3 places and shattered my elbow. I’m terrified of heights now I wish I still loved them like you do.
That vignette from the moisture on the GoPro adds to the perspective, it must have been very humid. Extra pressure of filming PoV when soloing too. Well done.
This was incredible man, the only thing the video was missing was a little after thoughts, maybe any parts you had second thoughts? Either way congratz brotha that was something else.
The self discipline and mental awareness needed in climbing hold a big attraction for me. In a life where we rarely test ourselves or push ourselves away from our confort zones; i think its needed to attain a certain balance? Id love to try it out. (I hate heights. Not a great start)
That's a beautiful tree, a climb of a lifetime. There aren't many trees like that left, most of the big ones were floated down rivers and turned into house fires.. I free climbed trees professionally from the age of ten to thirty four, my last professional climb was the winter of 2014. We had an acceptionally damaging ice storm and I ended up getting hung like Odin in the top of a live oak while performing some reparative pruning. If it weren't for a sprout that I had hooked my toe under I would have taken a header into the sidewalk. I can't think of anything better than spending time in the treetops. Climb on man and be sure to maintain at least one point of contact..
4:18 purple biner is crossloaded, probably loop is not long enough whats danger here is that here this biner works like 2-point anchor, being pulled from two sides by static loop on two weakest points of biner which is gate end and gate rotation point probably unlikely to breake, but this is already a little sketchy placement
