They were the first people to free-climb to the top of the granite monolith in Yosemite National Park. The first person they talked to about it was Ellen.
Reading these comments people seem to be confused about the difference between this feat and Honnold's feat. El Capitan is a gigantic granite wall with almost 70 different routes to the top. Honnold free soled a easier route the Freerider 13a, incredibly impressive in it's own right but much much easier in difficulty then this route. The Dawn wall goes at 14d and was deemed nearly impossible to free climb due to it's level of difficulty. Both are amazing feats let's applaud these accomplishments instead of comparing them.
Um no I mentioned Honnold free soloed the Freerider. But listen, as someone who climbs I come here to watch inspiring videos. And I find a lot of people who don't climb make asinine comments, trying to compare to completely different feats. I'm just trying to educate non climbers to theses things.
Re: Alex Honnold. Tommy, the guy on the right, is one of Alex's best friends, climbs with him all the time, and he helped Alex prep for the free solo on Freerider. He even wrote an article for Outside about it. As for Alex, he said this Dawn Wall climb was more highly rated than anything he had ever done. He predicted no one would ever free solo the route. So, there's mutual admiration.
Tommy and Alex Honnold have climbed together on a number of notable occasions, including setting the El Capitan speed record and getting a first summit of the Fitz Traverse
@@drewm-r7249 Many people who make comments have no understanding what they are talking about. Most have no idea what the Fitz Traverse is and where its located. What they did together on Fitz Traverse was incredible. People who climb at this level are in a complete other league of climber, truly amazing. I respect them all. Take care
Take a look in to Tommy Caldwell's background. He was kidnapped about 10 years ago in a war torn region and escaped by pushing his captor over a cliff. These guys are among the best in the world. A huge accomplishment.
@@holynickskates Could have been something from the podcast The Cutting Edge which is with him and Alex Honnold. Not sure if they hit on that story or not.
@@teejay3272 ill have to check that out, didn't know that had a podcast. This is a non climbing podcast called Against The Odds, i can't wait for the next episode
RocketKirchner Look up adam ondra. Honnolds climbed like 14d at best. Theres literally hundreds of climbers whose pushed 15a. Alex's a fantastic climber no doubt and a great free soloer but if anyones gunna break 5.16a it's gunna be Migos or Ondra.
Inspiring, motivating, epic. Especially now..when the world seems tentative. Sat there watching this while I practiced finger-picking on my ukulele..small victories, right?
First of all the word is route, not root lol. Secondly, Tommy and Alex's climbs were equally difficult, just in very different way. Both should be appreciated, and not compared as harder or easier
Do people not realize that there is more than one route? Alex did free solo it yes but his route was much easier compared to what these men did. That is not me downplaying Alex at all he is an absolutely incredible climber and has balls of steel, but these guys did the hardest route on el capitan, that's why it took so long.
Yusuf, they did have ropes but the reason this route is so impressive is it's technical difficulty. BTW you should try climbing El Cap "with ropes" you'd probably shit your pants.
crazy... ive been following rock climbing accent closely since 2010 when i started climbing, sucks that these athletes are just now getting recognized.
I kinda like it that way. It keeps the sport more underground and you don't got kids going "oh that's cool" ripping out to the nearest crag and getting hurt because they don't know what they are doing. It also keeps spots less busy.
These guys accomplished one of the most incredible feats in the history of climbing. Alex Honnold accomplished one of the most incredible feats in human history.
In case you don't know, doctors were able to reattach Tommy's severed finger (back when it was sawed off). But then, he didn't have the same dexterity with it, and viewed it as a handicap for his climbing, so he had it surgically removed. That's how much of a "climbing addict" he is...
People need to shut up about Alex honnold on this thread. Some pitches on this climb were 5.14d....7 grades higher than honnold's el cap free solo route. Honnold did not do this route. He did an easier one. Since this time, tommy free climbed the dawn wall. Which is even harder, if you asked honnold to free solo it he would laugh at you and admit that that would be suicide. In fact, honnold probably couldn't ever climb it at all without aid climbing.
Well people don’t know the difference in between free climb vs free solo. The question is would Tommy free solo the route Alex did?? Different climb with there is no rope.
finally someone gets the freaking ignorance of all these dumb ass retarded fools who dont know shit about pitches routes different methods of climbers and in my opinion tommy is as good as honnold and they both do things the other one wouldnt probably even think about doing and honnold even says that on an interview
