Climbing ALONE on EL CAPITAN - Breaking Records in Yosemite
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- The Salathe Solo speed record stood for 10 years at 20 hours and 6 minutes. Only 4 people had even succeeded in conquering this beast alone in under 24 hours.
Follow along as Brant tries to break the record and has a few laughs along the way. Oh and poops next to strangers.
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Cinematography 10/10, Commentary 10/10, Climbing 10/10, Beard 10/10 🔥
AYYYY its like it runs in the family or something!! Cheers buddy!
Dude climbs an 8a and suddenly he's a full blown pro with his own movie😊. It was a pleasure to watch, thanks!
HAHA well said! Except I'm the one who does all the editing and shooting. Thanks for joining!
Incredible effort! I'm just sitting here in sheer awe of what Brant accomplished. Props for shooting nearly everything whilst doing this impressive monster of a climb! Just wow!
Thanks so much lisa!!
Dude! What an epic achivement, congrats! The part at the hollow flake gave me the heebie-jeebies…
Ayy thanks so much! Yes, the hollow flake is quite an exciting pitch!
Amazing climbing, commentary, and scenery! I'm living it through Gravity Lab!
Ayyy thanks so much Ma! Thanks for being there every step of the way!
But imagine being Peter Haan on the first rope solo 50+ years ago! And he bivied at the lip of the roof, in a hammock, which is the start of the headwall. And Peter had no filmers and almost no one even knew he was up there. Rescue would have been exceptionally difficult.
Woahhh that is mega!! can you share the link to where you read that? I am always inspired by those who came before us and did it with much less technical gear!
Hell yeah! What a journey! I love this. Thank you for creating and sharing the process with us. I'm so glad you're safe too!
I took a big fall 10 months ago on my right SI joint while climbing and I still haven't healed yet, can barely walk or stand. Been super difficult to imagine going back to climbing even though I miss it, but this film gave me those first feelings I ever felt the first time I climbed on granite outside. 🥰 And it gave me hope in the power of determination.
Jennifer! Stoked to hear it got those endorphins firing! Hope your recovery is going well. Don't forget to rest and rehab!
Hopefully ill see you out on the rocks in no time!
having climbed el cap several times I really enjoyed this video ... all the great joy and daring situations came back to my mind ... GREAT CLIMB AND GREAT VIDEO ... thank you
Thanks so much Heinz! It takes a couple trips up the captain to properly know the feelings involved!
bro you are a beast, watching you tip out that #6 made my stomach turn, and you are just laughing.
Haha thanks Cory! Sometimes laughter is the best way to make a serious situation seem less intense!
Yeah scary. Nothing worse than persisting with walking a piece until it ceases to even be a piece.
Well it WAS a kinda nervous chuckle. :|
What and incredible feat and an incredible watch!! Great job on both your accomplishment and documenting it!! Way to finish it with such class at the end!!! YOU ARE AMAZING!!! - Marci
Wehooo! Thank you thank you!!
Congrats, what an awesome story. Loved every minute.
F**K YEAH Brother!!!! That's how you crush it! Super happy for you! Rock On!!!
Rock on Bobby! Hell yeah brotherrrr!
On ya Brant. Awesome achievement. I have watched many of your videos- maybe Serenity Crack was the first, Kaukulator, Verdon, wiring up your van and so on. I have enjoyed them all but none of them match this one. I think you are deserving of that highest Yosemite accolade…….Stone Master.
Crushed the film!! So good dude 🙌🏼
Hell yeah! Thanks for the guidance my dude!
26:59 hands sweating. When you called the totally tipped out cam bomber 😅
HAHA you and me both! But such a fun time! After all, that portion was only 5.9 wide...
Dude, solid work!! Always enjoy watching you crush on the walls while listening to you and the commentary along the way! "just a little bit"! 😃👊
Hahha thanks dude! Not a lot...
Amazing achievement and awesome film! Crazy how that "some guy called Alex" dude went and did the rope solo in just 11h 18min right after. Probably placed max 1 piece of protection per pitch
Incredible effort man and props for shooting the whole thing whilst going for the record! This was a fun watch 🤙
Big thanks Matt! Certainly added a little bit of nuance to manage both, but glad I did so I could share it with all of you🫡
Oliver Tippet is crushing it right now. Dude soloed Reticent, Sea of Dreams and Zenyata. No one else is coming close.
Awesome achievement and great video, well done! This made for a great Saturday night film!
Thanks for joining along Marcus!
You rock Brant, super good video
Thanks Jack! We gotta linkup again soon! Been too long
Absolutely sick man, well done!
the king of questing. the vision. the mental fortitude. stoked on this!
Ayy thanks for being a sounding board along the way!
Just wow ! Amazing, this is the kind of video that makes me dreaming and love climbing !
He'll yeah! I love watching movies like this!
Hell yeah Jonathan!
Awesome adventure and superb video top notch Salathe still on my bucket list suspect not LRS!!! Thank you 🙏
Hell yeah! Thanks for joining on the adventure! It is such a mega wall! Make it a priority as you will never forget it!
Congratulations man, what a feat and thrilling you took us along your ride. Cheers!
Hell yeah! Thanks kfor joining along for the ride!
Any chance of an uncut video of the climb? That would be insane to watch.
Hey fatboi! Any particular pitches? I just set up my Patreon and could certainly throw some of the pitches in there!
www.patreon.com/GravityLab?
Really well done video in addition to an amazing climb!
Thanks homie!
That was absolutely a brilliant piece of climbing and in my humble opinion extremely historical. I love the self talking to hype yourself up. A very well filmed and edited film with gripped scenes and funny moments. Love it!!!!!
Inspiring! Maybe one day I'll be able to do a big wall after seeing this.. but definitely not solo lol! Sick job
Ay Cheers homie! You can def do it! Definitely want to start with a partner though haha
Nice work making this happen, Brant 🙌 great effort up there!
I am so proud that you made it up to el cap that has to be a very hard climb but not only physical but mentally I love watching these kinds of videos I hope you had an amazing time and can’t wait to see you and Brittany- Peyton
Can't believe this video doesn't have more views. Congrats on your achievement!
Great film badass ascent
thanks gus! Glad you enjoyed it!
That's a fat fnckiug loop! Don't fall. Hehehe! Awesome!
Hehe you get it Yann!
@@GravityLabz I had a close epic right there. I’ll tell you when we meet ;-)
Love this film.... just a little bit ! (actually a lie, loved it so much. Your self-talk throughout the night was hilarious and relatable haha)
Bravo! Nice movie man!
Merci beaucoup mon ami! Il faut grimper beaucoup cet automne!
What a great feat! Huge congrats!!! Then comes that Honnold guy and takes 11 hours 😅
truth! Records was meant to be broken!
So epic! Thanks for sharing this story. Incredible to see what a regular climbing bum is capable of. I always enjoy your stoke, self-talk, determination, and, most of all, sing-alongs. Congrats!
The granite sparkling in the head torch is so beautiful, what an amazing place to climb.
WOO THAT IS AWESOME, I LOVE ROPE SOLO. CONGRATULATION FROM MEXICO.
Amazing film! Can you share how old are you and what is your training? I am very inspired and want to discover what it takes to make this! Thank you
Hey Martin! Yeah I am 32. Are you talking about climbing training or video training?
@@GravityLabz climbing training, I am 37 and want to know whether is possible to climb El Cap when I devote my training towards it
Awesome, congratulations
Thank you! Cheers!
Great work! Loved hear more of your story!
frickin awesome dude!
Big thanks Nick!
28:57 nice darn toughs! I have the same pair, love them!
Man, let me tell you how excited I was to watch this video. What a great effort and determination!! Rope Soloing on single pitch is one thing, but to be on the wall for multiple days and having to psyche yourself none stop is another. It takes a strong mindset, understanding gear and not to forget balls of steel to pull it off.
Much respect to you my friend, well done and I’m hoping to see more ascents like this one in the future.
Rock and roll bro💪💪🤘👍😀
Beautiful film man, truly an inspiration for the corporate slaves
Big thanks dude! I used to be one myself!
Proud work, Brant!
Big ups!!
This is next level!
So stoked I just caught this. Love gravity lab! Keep crushing it!!!! 🍻
Cheers! Will do!
Nice film! Beautiful shots
Cheers! Glad you enjoyed it
27:14 This is the only way to handle the situation 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 I love it
Congrats on the record! Nice production, I took my time, didn't rush viewing it. So nice to see places I've heard about but will never be in person. The headwall is amazing!
Late bloomer this is inspiring. I do a bit of a rope soloing and I’m pretty much a nobody I’m not like a big hard climber but planning to attempt to rope solo in Alaska for me as a black person. This is brand new but I know other people before me have done this so it’s nothing brand new, lovely video
Riveting! Thanks for sharing your climb with humanity. That was a pretty scary fall, dude! Congrats on obtaining that climb record!
I gave yourself and your broski, Aaron a ride to your van last year post Salathé wall climb.
May the amazing adventures continue!
great job man well done! give me the fucking fear right enough 😂
Haha gotta do it!
This makes free soloing look very attractive.
Congratulations, man! That was killer!
Cheers homie!!
Loved this brant and gravity lab team. Thanks for sharing! I could help to think of those piton scared being made back in the day as you kept popping out cams haha.
Thanks so much! We really enjoyed the process. Haha yes definitely fun trying to find decent placements in horrible pin scars!
Great video!! I'm just an ol sick woman in the Louisiana swamps living vicariously thru your videos. Oh and learning a lot about something I'll never do lol 😊🧡
~Peace &Love ☮️ 💜 ☯️
From, New Orleans 🐊 🎷 🎼 🎺
Watched over two morning before work. Great presentation of what all went down! Really enjoy your videos, they always get me soooo stoked to climb!
27:25 at least I have one really bomber piece. Nervous chuckle ensues as he shifts up his completely maxed out nr 6 :)
Love from Italy ❤ this is great
Thanks so much! We will be back in italy soon!
@@GravityLabz hope this content will get the visibility it deserves. Enjoy Italy when you’ll get back here
amazing absolutely amazing
Crushed it Brant! so stoked you made it. You put in the work and topped out an amazing route in such a cool fashion. look mom its mee! 43:42 (I've been waiting to see this posted to see if i made the final edit :P)
Also huge thanks for guiding us down the east ledges decent the next day. made our lives a lot easier!
Absolutely dude! It was awesome hanging out up there and kicking it the next day! Let me know next time you are around my area!
Congrats!
Thanks Riccardo!
Inspirational. I still have my silent partner from a long time ago. I saw someone was trying to sell one on eBay for $2,500, LOL.
Typically they go for less than that (roughly 1400 on avg). But yeah, every now and then the prices spike (probably every time a CZcamsr mentions them)😂
Did I like this video? Just a little biiiit
not a lot bbgirl....
Just imagining Alex Honold free soloing this cliff is just horrific... its unreal when you see the scale of the face..
Nice work and video! Slumping the silent partner in some of those squeezes sounds like work!
Let’s get a Spotify playlist?
really really inspiring stuff Brant, absolutely great job
Impresionante!! 💥Enhorabuena por la actividad, enhorabuena por el video.. enhorabuena maquina!! 🦾Gracias por compartirlo, es muy motivador para los que intentamos hacer cosas menores en rope solo. He alucinado!! Gracias 🤟
Sick.
Thanks for the video! Do you think the exposure comes more from ledges or bad cam placements or long run outs?
Great question! I would say the danger comes from the long runouts, but the exposure comes moreso from how the wall leans back over towards the valley and all of a sudden you go from secure corners to 3,000 feet off the deck!
Looked like a BD C4 #6 up the flake, as opposed to a DMM Dragon #8. Think I'll go with them for my bigger cams, maybe big bros to but they can't slide up with you as you go. Totems and some kind of micros maybe aliens.
Impressive! Nice work! 🙌
Absolutely and totally crazy feat! Well done congratulations =)
so cool, well done mate!
Amazing climb and film Brant! Was just wondering what setup did you use for your personal tether/adjustable daisies for those aid sections. Is it 2 connect adjusts with your own rope on it (girth hitched on your belay loop)?
wow man ! good you survived
3:15 stoked squirrel in the crack :D
haha good eye!!
@@GravityLabz Quite surprised it's not gotten too fat to scale anything beyond a campsite table
The constant references to "a FULLY ROPED ascent" strike me as a tad passive aggressive tbh
HAHA. How many were there? I think 2 in 52 minutes... but I could be wrong!
Wild
You know it!
If i never watched alex free solo el cap in 4 hours id be impressed with this video
Are you going to be in the Valley this fall? I’d like to have a beer with you.
So was Pete Whitaker’s free solo in under 24 hours the first on el cap on a different route than this route
His rope solo ascent of Freerider was the first free el cap ascent solo in a day. Really weird verbiage but yes you are right
there are few honors greater than having a yosemite speed record broken by honnold
Hes kinda a dbag for immediately doing that though. and obv honnold free soloed huge swaths, brant full ropesolo
BEAST
thanks ian!
this is so sick dude ty for the video
incredible
Lets goooo!
Yessss!!! LFG!!
What happens to all the clamps you put into the rocks? Do you decend same way and collect?
Fucking amazing
The real solo adventure was to edit this video 😂
Truth!! What an adventure that was!
ZIP ZAP ZOOBITY BOP
Is that the base of surrealistic pillar in Tahoe you are doing the interview at here? 3:11
You new school climbers can't climb a barstool without making a video
Простите но я не понимаю, как вы можете использовать обычные доевние лестницы из ткани...
bad asssss dude