The North Face Presents: "Return of the Sleepwalker" (9A/v17) (First Ascent)

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Daniel Woods goes straight into battle mode with one of his hardest projects to date. Jimmy Webb established "Sleepwalker" (the stand start) back in January of 2019. The possibility of a sit-start arose in 2021. This sit-start would add in a 7 move 8B/v13 into "Sleepwalker" (8C+/v16). Grades can be fickle, but ROTSW stands as one of the hardest boulder problems in the world. Bobby Sorich did an awesome job capturing Daniel's process, emotion, and overall journey to climb ROTSW.
Hope you enjoy the film and are inspired to go out and mind fuck yourself a bit. Climbing is an awesome outlet to see how far you can go within, learn about yourself, and pull some freak shit out of you. All to accomplish a feat of strength that will give you 30 seconds of bliss, but a huge confidence boost within that's carried throughout your life. It's all a game out there... have fun playing the game. DW
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@EvolvWorldwide 3 года назад

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@huhnesser 3 года назад

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@bloctribe 3 года назад

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@assassinwalker3 3 года назад

The insane amount of emotion released after each incredibly disappointing failure to send, then little to nothing after actually sending it... Most climber-like thing I've seen

@assaqwwq 2 года назад

love that its called "mellow" too :D I mean I get it, everyone at that lvl is a perfectionist, but for people who aren't, just have fun with it. Also, hes friends acted as emotional support and given him perspective, which is really nice.

@climbingbeanchomper Год назад

after sending a several year long project im sure alot of what he felt afterwards was relief

@zacharylowman4034 Год назад

@@climbingbeanchomperno joke, ive only projected one climb it was at seneca rocks in WV. Took me 3 summers of failing but finally got it last summer and of course i was excited but relief was definitely the prominent emotion and we’re talking a 5.10 lead route so not even in the same universe as what this man just did.

@cheechunlimited Год назад

sounds like speedrunning haha

@RanMrKris 3 года назад

D woods: Writing bouldering history Also D Woods: Chalking up for the upper slab part

@nathannguyen2381 3 года назад

I don't know a single person who'd do slab without chalk lol

@lcart1064 3 года назад

The adrenaline dump after that send would make anybody's hands into waterfalls haha

@RanMrKris 3 года назад

@@lcart1064 haha yeah for sure

@RanMrKris 3 года назад

@@nathannguyen2381 true

@adamstackable7336 3 года назад

@@syindrome The upper holds prob don't have as much chalk,.. And his fingers would run out of chalk as the problem progresses,.. And just because it turns to slab or vert doesn't mean it's easy, and some holds on slab are friction dependent so if you have an inkling of moisture or loose material on your shoes or fingertips the grade goes from v2 to v10 or some sh$t.

@frenchbaguette2856 3 года назад

16:18 The shaking leg. That moment when you know you've just achieved the impossible and that there's only one last move left to make. Congratulations Daniel!

@samlfarrar 3 года назад

Elvis leg is a real condition

@LeonxLeon 3 года назад

He spent that much time on it just to be sure he wore every Mellow merch available for the vid

@jakobelkholtei1425 3 года назад

*not available

@JonPMelly 3 года назад

A completely new look at the climbing film, skateboard metal vibes.... classic undeniable

@chadbeckelhymer8288 3 года назад

You need to watch the old school rampage dvd, the whole vid has this vib….bout time they made a flick like that again, enough with the lame documentary style with cuts to have the climber talk about some dumb shit

@michaeljustinmoynihan 3 года назад

Agreed with the other reply to your comment. Every old climbing video was like this.

@stephenr80 2 года назад

mellow has been doing good stuff for a while now, in the first sequence they already had me, whoever isbehind this stuff should be doing movies

@colehibbard2851 3 года назад

Gonna wait till after work to watch this so I can scream COME ON DANIEL at my screen

@Constantine769 3 года назад

Same. "Let's faaacking goooh!"

@westonzor 3 года назад

i did. much worth

@lonesome3958 2 года назад

ALLEZ

@Mdjagg 3 года назад

Halfway through and I already know, this is the greatest skate video ever produced! Nah, for real though, I love this style. Thanks for not showing us 10mins of hiking in and the butterflys flying off of a dandelion in slow-mo. Thank you! This video is amazing!

@schneeekind 3 года назад

Hahaha yea I thought of skatevideo productions as well

@matthewlarson7207 3 года назад

In my mind Daniel is like the Leo Romero of rock climbing.

@PaulHobbs23 Год назад

I like butterflies flying off a dandelion in slow-mo tho

@gianmartial Год назад

It’s missing the parts where he breaks the boards 😂

@Mdjagg Год назад

Nah, he definitely breaks the boards!

@BadWaterBouldering 3 года назад

"How'd it feel?" "Hard." Amazing work Daniel, you are an inspiration.

@buckhum55 2 года назад

Daniel Woods: Immaculate wordsmith. A true poet.

@MF-CLIMB 3 года назад

Finally here...very small number of ‘Dudes’ on the dude counter for my liking in a Mellow video...but what a beast Daniel is though!

@Ever3lackSky 3 года назад

I had the 69th like on this comment ;)

@MgCO3climbing 3 года назад

Jon Glassberg being a bro on camera duty at the end! So perfect! Imagine if we didn't get to see Daniel up at the top at that moment. Made the video that much more epic.

@LuisOrtega-ue1vp 3 года назад

THE TIME HAS COME

@lixtaressoc8683 3 года назад

It has, Sigmav, whether you want it or not.

@Deathranger999 3 года назад

@@Sigmav0 Lots of people have been waiting for weeks for this video to come out. The send itself was announced a while ago.

@Sigmav0 3 года назад

@@Deathranger999 Oh ok thanks

@namuhtsuj4025 3 года назад

I love the anger he shows. I feel like a lot of climbers have dialed into this “always chill” temperament that’s kind of boring to me. I vividly remember being livid when I climbed and learning to channel that anger into precision and determination. The anger he shows here makes the struggle against the stone feel realistic and human. Huge send for Daniel, keep what your doing dawg.

@sebastian-ez1dj 3 года назад

janja has this fire, i feel that’s what separates her from the others

@plwadodveeefdv 13 дней назад

@@sebastian-ez1dj why's shawn so much better than daniel then? 🤔

@diegosebastian2226 Год назад

I have no idea how many times I've seen this. Lots and lots. Love it every time, one of the greatest climbing vids to really psyche yourself up.

@FISHD0G747 3 года назад

I felt like 3 months was forever but now that it’s here I’m actually impressed how fast it came out for how great it is

@sweatfootm 3 года назад

Climbing movies used to come out once a year and you had to buy the VHS or DVD or be lucky to live in an area that had a one time viewing in the theater so...ya, just relax and be patient. We live in the age of free and almost immediate content. Enjoy it.

@marretlineberry6979 3 года назад

Daniel Woods? More like Daniel Rocks!

@ac311205 7 месяцев назад

Underrated comment

@TheQuicksilver115 3 года назад

Holy crap, this second half of just full attempts that he misses on the last move, so crushing. The anguish in his screams when he gets so close only to fall again...damn that hits hard. Haven't seen to the end yet, super excited for the send! This is an incredible feat, Daniel is such a fucking monster

@wankershim 3 года назад

History in the making! also sick editing, did a good job capturing exactly how difficult something like this is... congratulations 👏

@KOLBENPFIEL 3 года назад

Had to try hard to resist the urge to watch this instantly while driving

@Coleginter 3 года назад

major props to Bobby Sorich for this fantastic editing. filming goes hand in hand with the climbing! absolute beasts!!

@bennettstone3784 3 года назад

16:26 Now he prepares for the real challenge

@2fast4me9 3 года назад

One day I wanna be strong enough to pull off the ground from the starting holds.

@alexbarcovsky4319 3 года назад

I think thats like an 8A move in itself

@Sheldon_Steines 3 года назад

Thrash metal edit is soooo fucking sick. Insane boulder too

@matthewontherocks 3 года назад

Freaking mega, this is the PS5 christmas present of climbing movie drops

@alexharvey5808 3 года назад

This deserves more upvotes tbh

@amirulrazak7793 3 года назад

When the man himself sending. Not a single Dudeeeeeee was given. The silence tells it all. Congrats Daniel on extreme dedication and mental game!

@sweatfootm 3 года назад

It was silent because I believe he was alone when he sent.

@hyboirds1536 2 года назад

God damn that's a sick boulder! Awesome send! Thats crazy he sent it on an attempt where his foot slipped TWICE on the sloper section! Thats incredible, a little footslip on this incline was enough to end the attempt for him endless times before. So to fight thru two slips and still send, mad respect.

@95Mrpaquito 3 года назад

That was a fantastic choice of soundtrack, it got me hooked up all through the video. the tension it built was great. To the point that I decided to wait until I got home to watch it so as not to have to cut the video in half because of work.

@MPHshoots 2 года назад

Do you know what song is at 15:10

@JasonOgasian 3 года назад

Wow, what a film. I feel like I felt all the emotions right there along with Daniel. There's almost a hypnotic quality to this. Thanks for sharing and congrats on the mega send!

@Stewbertgrant 3 года назад

That pause after the send. He seems astonished it even happened. Bets on how long before we see a repeat?

@stevenru4516 3 года назад

at least 3

@xxavior2012 3 года назад

@@stevenru4516 I’m guessing at least tree fiddy

@stevenru4516 3 года назад

@@xxavior2012 at least 3 time

@matthewmurphy341 3 года назад

How long did it take for Hypno to see one?

@Tengukou 3 года назад

@@matthewmurphy341 A long time, which is impressive since Hypnotized Minds is right off the road and guys like David Graham and Paul Robinson tried it for years. But Rustam Gelmanov managed to do Hypo in 3 sessions🤷🏻‍♂️

@Csherman04 10 месяцев назад

5:30 to 5:48. Never related more to feeling that defeated. Also made me laugh so hard when he just goes, "I feel fucked"

@kall3nat0r 3 года назад

Here before this has a million views.

@craigbritton1089 Год назад

For those making fun of Daniel wanting his chalk bags; I guess you have never been so worked and adrenalized that everything seems steep When the fight/ flight/ freeze system is done with the fight: your body wants to go to flight or freeze. He gave 100; percent to fight to top the crux; so his emotional mind was not in a state to say low angle slab is easy.

@andreapaolino5905 2 месяца назад

Still one of (if not THE) greatest bouldering videos ever made. Huge accomplishment, awesome story. Thanks Daniel 🙏🏻

@TryHardAthlete88 Год назад

Intro song: Electric Company - MP Shaw, Nick Andre

@danielhavlat6461 3 года назад

Absolute beast 💪 I was lucky enough to be able to check this boulder out a few months ago after Daniel sent. The slopers are even worse than they look in this video, and the last move to get the toehook is absolutely bonkers. Great send, can't wait to see whats next

@mathiassimmons1766 3 года назад

Summary: 15 minutes of Daniel falling over and over on insanely difficult moves. At 15:07, DWoods sends ROTSW on his 52ND DAY. Insane commitment to a single problem. Congrats Daniel!

@sirhenrystalwart8303 3 месяца назад

mellow > reel rock any day of the week. You guys are killing it!

@DavidMartinBouldering 3 года назад

HISTORIC ASCENT. Congrats man 🔥💪

@alexanderwootten5160 3 года назад

Best "My War" ever.

@nathanschimke7309 3 года назад

hahaha true

@boulderfighters2590 3 года назад

His performance and persistence is simply stunning and mind-blowing. And is a big motivation for everybody to really try fu***** hard when you have a goal you want to achieve!

@aranna_ 3 года назад

that sloper move is heinous...congrats on the send woods! you earned it

@REELROCK1 3 года назад

Sick! Congrats Daniel, epic effort and great vid.

@petersotherland9230 3 года назад

Reminds me of Jason Kehl’s Evilution video. Such a good job on the video and a sick send!

@iliakolesnikov Год назад

Best bouldering video ever) Watched several times

@HarryZumwalt 3 года назад

"We should have stuck around for five minutes.." LMAO

@alejand5 3 года назад

That thumb press thing and the foot sequence got me hard

@macd5953 3 года назад

Best scream compilation on youtube.

@trulslarsen9820 3 года назад

Fantastic video! Loved the ol'school slow'mo sound and the heavy metal which melted beautifully with the cinematography! Full circle with the classic 90's hard-core climbing movies like "Masters of stone". Cheers to Bobby Sorich! Oh and congrats to D.Webb for the magnificent FA ;-)

@py2706 3 года назад

I can't progress thru new grades as fast as they create new grades! :( lol but great work D Woods!

@DaleTurrell 3 года назад

First 8C 2002, first 8C+ 2010, first 9A 2016.

@MarkusSojakka 3 года назад

My guess: First 9A+ in 2027

@rowanferwerda4865 3 года назад

@@MarkusSojakka i'd bet not before 2030

@rowanferwerda4865 3 года назад

@@MarkusSojakka it took 5 years for a second 9A boulder and only two, max four people (depending on what the big island assis wil settle at) have done a 9A so far. There was more traffic on the 8C+ grade in the first five years right? I feel like bouldering is getting closer to a human limit faster than route climbing. I can see a 9A+ boulder being done eventualy and maybe 9B a long time from now but past that, idk. Guess we'll have to wait and see

@MarkusSojakka 3 года назад

@@rowanferwerda4865 Or maybe die without seeing. But I am hoping that Sisu project will be climbed before I die.

@amarkert65 3 года назад

I'm hang-boarding and doing pull ups while watching this. Psyched. Nice work, Woods.

@oliviercourtens5540 3 года назад

That reaction though 52 days in "...cruised it 👌..."

@runforrest86 3 года назад

So unreal! AMAZING work Daniel. Pleasure to watch your journey dude. Mind blowing.

@Ever3lackSky 3 года назад

All I want to know is who are the sad, pathetic people thumbs-downing this video?! Seriously though, unbelievable send, and a fantastically put together video of the process!

@Nick-qy9hv 3 года назад

Just finished hang boarding. Perfect timing

@hoshvilson 3 года назад

Wasn't planning on hangboarding tonight, but after watching this i think I should spend 3 hrs a day on 6 mm for the rest of my life

@asderamen 3 года назад

CAMERA CREW: 2 Red cameras, sound guy DANIEL WOODS: Lets make it today and record me with the phone pls.

@perrrrrtNESS 3 года назад

Sick how the send was just D alone with the boulder. 🔥

@SROribe 24 дня назад

The line between greatness and craziness is so so so thin.

@totheair247 3 года назад

FINALLLYYYY, thanks so much to everyone's hard work to get this video out, most especially Daniel

@anthonyboulais1476 3 года назад

I wish there was some talk about the mental process/training throughout the vid. The send is sick though, as always.

@juriberetta9868 3 года назад

Actually I really appreciated the only climbing and madness kind of video. The mental process Woods went through was explained on his social account in the last months. Actually I really felt the struggle and obsession transparing from the videos immages. But I can understand your point of view.

@ArielBiMBa 3 года назад

Was missing for me as well. It was crazy to read so much about it on Instagram and then having none of it here. And as to what you said @Juri, that's true now but I don't think someone watching this video in 1 or 2 or 10 years is going to go the his social media posts from back then and get that much into the process. However there were and will probably be some interviews, written and filmed, which will be more accessible. So at least that. I would say that one sentence he wrote in the end of one of those posts, which really touched me, was something like "in the end I'm just trying to get up some fucking rock", and the end of this video, the actual seconds after that send, that quiet, when nobody is really around and it's just him, realizing what happened, really transfer a bit of the anti-climatic vibe that sentence had (Nalle touches the same subject in the "Burden of Dreams" video). So I really enjoyed that part of the video.

@juriberetta9868 3 года назад

@@ArielBiMBa I really loved the anti-climatic vibe of the send too. This was just so "normal", a piece of climbing history only witnessed by the eyes of a camera; no one around. The uselessness of the gesture, this is what makes climbing so freaking good. I'm reading RN a book about the climbing revolution in Italy (I'm italian) and the group of guys that made that believed in the uselessness of climbing, wich was the beauty about the discipline as they inteded it. They were ascending only multipitch or sport cliimbs, bouldering was not a thing. Today i think that bouldering is the extremization of that idea. I went a bit out of topic but this video made me, if possible, even more in love with climbing

@danielfry8097 3 года назад

@@juriberetta9868 alright plato

@walterlotte4215 3 года назад

@@danielfry8097 Dude.. You never get that? I often sit at the crack and chuckle about how stupid this whole thing is we are all so passionate about. And yet I return and give it my all. Without ever hesitating.

@megans1804 3 года назад

absolutely mind-blowing. the psychological component of dan's journey to sending this is unflinchingly phenomenal. this video captured what climbing is literally all about. sooo worth the wait.

@GregFeeneyPoker 3 года назад

I'm sure I felt only a fraction of the emotion that Daniel felt at the end but it was still enough to give me the chills. Music slaps as always. Mellow vibes are the best vibes. Legendary send.

@jorgecrimps 3 года назад

I literally watched the V16 and V17 videos back to back like three times already

@EchelonIV 3 года назад

Finally a climbing film with some proper music. Oh and good job on the V17 Daniel.

@Pr0x1mo Год назад

Do you know the name of the first song by any chance?

@harrisonvoorhees 3 года назад

I haven't liked climbing videos in a long time. This one is fucking cool. Good job Bob. Epic send D!

@justingabriele3881 3 года назад

this is the greatest thing to ever be created

@climblife 3 года назад

Goat!!!! 🐐 🐐

@climblife 3 года назад

Goat!

@Tac0caT0 Год назад

One of the more honest process videos about what it means to project, long term, and is relatable to all levels of people projecting things. Also hadn’t seen a second ascent as yet… even with Burden of Dreams and Alphane recent ascents. I hope this one hangs out a few years before it sees a repeat… let that shit marinate…

@saint5203 2 года назад

I love the part where his foot catches the difficult move and then he grabs the top of the Boulder that he hasn't grabbed it before. You can tell in his mind he is like oh my God I did it. Your determination and motivation is very inspiring. I think the message areas don't quit. If you have a goal DONT QUIT!

@hablaf12 Год назад

Absolute monk

@Kletterszenecom 3 года назад

the boundless will to climb the line by all the setbacks is impressive!!! Congrats Daniel!!

@1honeybun 10 месяцев назад

b-roll videos would be sick in the future

@briancarroll7139 3 года назад

The wait for the footy was worth it! Good work Daniel!!

@faebyang2526 Год назад

I just started climbing this year, currently only at a gym. But after finding this channel and all the awesome climbers, im really pumped to try out climbing on some real roc! Even though i know ill never reach this level of climbing, these videos still motivate me so much to go climb and get better every day! Fcking love this Sport

@ariapanades6318 3 года назад

If there's one other person who can do this, it's Jimmy. Hope we'll see him send that one day.

@dovakiiin946 3 года назад

iese

@bizmonkey007 3 года назад

There are a few good climbers who could probably do it (Drew Ruana, Nalle, Schubert). Investing the time into is the key

@ariapanades6318 3 года назад

@@bizmonkey007 Of course! I dont doubt that! But it'd be rad if the next climber to send it was the one who set the FA for sleepwalker :))

@groghnash 3 года назад

@@bizmonkey007 Nalle wont do it! he cant do their beta for the crux because of short arms, he basicly has to do the jump while holding the sloper with the right hand and not the crimp.

@ariapanades6318 3 года назад

@@groghnash Has Nalle sent sleepwalker v16? Cause if he has sent it and has the motivation to try the sit, even if it takes him ages, he might do it eventually.

@BASEmedia 3 года назад

Chapeau Daniel 👊🏻 STILL crushing 💪🏻

@JLongTom Год назад

17:15 The perfect illustration of the inaneness of holding one's arms up to "protect" a climber.

@plwadodveeefdv 13 дней назад

if they fall you can prevent death or paralysis. nothing inane about it

@beezow7113 3 года назад

daniel with the fan service of asking for the chalk bag

@andrewschafer3407 3 года назад

type of vid you like before you watch

@DarthZealoT 3 года назад

A sublime odyssey. Congrats Daniel. You’re the man💪🏼

@alcupone6462 3 года назад

So sick! Love the edit, raw climbing, no storytelling bs, just try hard. Congrats on the send!

@chancebrock289 Год назад

Daniel is a psycho I love it

@thombstones 7 месяцев назад

Has anyone ever worked harder on a boulder than this? Wow! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

@poopman18 3 года назад

Great now I need to go buy a pair of evolv phantoms and go charge v3

@loveroos627 3 года назад

This edit was exactly what it needed to be. Sick send, sick vibe, sick edit.

@ploglet 3 года назад

Don’t remember wanting to see someone complete a problem as much as in that video. Amazing! I still remember seeing Daniel in the BRC with his Dad when he was just a little kid. So great to see his progression through all these years. Congrats Daniel.

@limjunekiat 3 года назад

What a beast of a problem and what a palm-sweating fight. Jeez, that's insane! Way to go, Daniel!

@kylelin1693 3 года назад

Now this is what we ruined Daniel's comment section on instagram for.

@taylortreadgold2720 3 года назад

I wonder if all the conspiracy theorists that said he fell off the V1 slab will apologize or just continue on their path to absolute insanity.

@alexantone5532 3 года назад

Taylor Treadgold it is funny that he asked for chalk on it tho

@taylortreadgold2720 3 года назад

@@alexantone5532 is it?

@EvolvWorldwide 3 года назад

Worth it tho

@andrewmshuff Год назад

Just ran across Jimmy Webb's original Sleepwalker climb video. Seen this video a couple of times and back for more. Love it. Intense and inspirational.

@NosferatuFromtheLates Год назад

I know the mindset you’d have to have, but I can’t even imagine sustaining it for over 50 days. Never mind the physical. Awesome.

@dantelaw7759 Год назад

Incredible send, these next-level boulders are reaching new definitions of outrageous. But it always humours me seeing world-class athletes on these easy slab topouts, I don't know why 😅