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1930! One guy falls into crevasse, entire team falls into crevasse

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Perfect strings, really got the cords down!! Please update us on this young boy!!!!!!

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So strong!! 💪 We need an update about our dear friend, Cap!! Liked, subscribed, and shared to my facebook page :o

Thank you, Mr. Linxweiler! Very cool! My son, cap, also watches these and he enjoys them a lot. Please make more soon, it's been too long! 😻

Thank you, Mr. Linxweiler! Very cool! My son, cap, also watches these and he enjoys them a lot. Please make more soon, it's been too long! 😻

Thank you, Mr. Linxweiler! Very cool! My son, cap, also watches these and he enjoys them a lot. Please make more soon, it's been too long! 😻

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I remember learning how to repel from an old climbing book I took out of the Burlington Public Library when I was around 9 or 10 years old....it was the old school method of simply feeding an old hemp rope between your legs then out an over the opposing shoulder.....it worked quite well though was hard on the old scrotum and its' contents......anyway, I got my start climbing that way by descending into regions where the only way out was to climb - we had many a glorious adventure from 75 -82 . In 82, after graduating high school, I moved out to the Banff area in the middle of the Canadian Rockies, looking forward to spending time in a real mountain range, one I had only read about but one that promised so much adventure and such a chance to really learn and hone my skill level. I Spent the next 12 years out there only to return for graduate school in 93...for the next 12 years after returning I continued to climb up at the escarpment, areas where Mike Emerson and I put up quite a few of our own first ascent, yet we were never to be credited for the routes in the subsequent guide book that was eventually published . That was fine by us as we were gone for years and we climbed for our own reasons not for the accolades of others... . .Back in the early 70s Mike and I would get one of our parents to drop us off at the trailhead leading up to the MT Nemo area of the Niagra escarpment, just above the small city of Burlington Ontario. The escarpment weaves its way all through Ontario for hundreds of miles, as far North as Tobermory and up Kingston way in the east. It now offers dozens of fantastic and well developed contemporary climbing crags and has produced legends like Steve Demaio, Known for his big wall escapades out on Chinaman's peak in the early 80s. Demaio and Jeff Marshal put up some of the most bone-chilling and technically challenging aid routes the Rockies had ever seen, many with huge fifty plus foot runouts on chossy limestone and questionable pro- most of their more notorious routes up on CHinamans North Face have never been repeated less even attempted. They were also instrumental in the development.of Yamnuska, and for pushing the limits of hard Alpine rock climbing all over the Rockies in general. In the mid 80s the duo put up the the "Warrior" named after BJ Wallace who died during an earlier attempt. It is an extremely long, steep and very sustained hard 10+ up the North Face of Mt Lougheed. As Demaio started to slow down a bit Marshal continued to forge on starting to put up more hard alpine rock routes. Marshall went on to do the first ascent of the West face of Mt Robertson going at 11+ for more than 2000 feet of vertical greasy limestone. It took him and his partner more than three days on the way to complete the route. The route did not even see its' third ascent until 2011! This surely testifies to just how scary these trad climbs were and are. Marshall moved on to putting up hundreds of bolted sport routes throughout the Rockies on into the 90s and on into the 21st century....I remember when he worked at MEC in Calgary back in the day and I used to go in there from the Bow Valley to buy gear and just chat with this living legend....He really is one of Canada's foremost Climbers, right up there with names like Pat Morrow and Barry Blanchard, though each had his own specialty thus they rarely crossed paths.....though I believe Blanchard and Marshall did put up a few epic ice routes while Morrow was more the quintessential Alpinist and the first man to climb the highest peak on all seven continents despite what Dick Bass and his American cronies will try and tell ya.....Unfortunately pushing 60 myself now, with two extremely arthritic knees both each also having torn meniscus, walking, let alone climbing has become a big enough hurdle.....Although I was never anywhere close to the caliber of the aforementioned, I did live to climb and ski, it was my passion and really gave me so much happiness....I would not trade those thirty-five years for anything? I cherish all my memories in the mountains and the great friendships I formed with a select few partners over the years.....It is sad to know seventy is around the corner but although I have nothing of any monetary value and my retirement years will be lived on a very frugal pension, again, I would not trade it for a minute - when I close my eyes at night I can take myself right back to the night I bivied in a cave after" turning the pencil" on Polar Circus only to wake up the next morning and me and my partner knock off the final three crux pitches to the top - back in 88 it was still considered a climb of consequence....anyway, .it is all relative and the memory is the most important thing taken from that climb - lying under the stars on a cold January night, looking up and feeling like I could touch the stars - they were years of complete wonder and years that money can not buy - I have no regrets at all! peace out and all the best to you young climbers who are just getting started - don't lose sight of what it is all about - leave your ego at home and your experience and memories will be all the better for it!!!

Washington State. Best state in the Union, and that's a fact.

Harness? Who needs a harness! Just hold onto the rope!

Second clip, in color in the snow, is Fisher's Chimney route on Shuksan

People rarely need something before it is invented and marketed. How many years until today's mostly risk free climbing--relying on a human belayer--FA an alpine route without drone support--is regarded as suicidal.

You may not really NEED the extensive gear... but at 5:18 its pretty clear that if the second had fallen, the belayer at the top would have either gotten a rope-burn-to-end-all-rope-burns or would have been pulled down as well. If anything, this should be an inspiration to beginners to invest in some pretty expensive (but effective) gear.

Now that's a true alpine style trad climb, the belayer and your gear rack are the same thing! "Really hang on to that crack, George, I might take a whipper."

Shit at 06:00 the hombre with the red Fez hat is doing a hot seat rap with no safety prusik and no fingerless gloves ouch and an even bigger ouch if he falls out of that body rappel. And those may not even be nylon ropes...hemp anyone?

@kungfugriptight I know exactly what you mean. Imagine the guys in the 1930's doing pendulum traverses and tension climbing with Hemp rope that doesn't stretch for shit and if you fall....max strength for 1/2in hemp 10.6 Kn and way less at a knot or through an old steel carabiner. And what about climbing in tennis shoes and doing hot seat body rappels? If I tried it would give me PTSD.