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Nice work dude. Hope to see you at the bear boxes again next spring. Keep on getten after it.

Im not sure as an American, we can all still drive around in diesel trucks in good faith after watching this. Im confused and need a hamburger.

Nose-wankers 😂

I have lead A3 and I feel I’m not even in the same ball park as you Oliver. When I watch you’re vids, especially sea of dreams, you make having balls of steel seem like a walk in the park

Well done Oliver. Back in '87 I soloed the Zodiac and Xaver Bongard was starting his ZM solo that same day. We shared a beer and off we went. When I finished and he was still half way up, but I always wondered what the route entailed. Thanks for sharing an amazing experience! BTW - Walt Shipley had also just finished soloing the NA wall and we shared drinks back at the bar that evening. I think it was the start of a solo aid climbing era, trying to replicate the achievements and honor the efforts of Charlie Porter, Robbins and Grossman, then Kohl and Cole took over. Appears to be a resurgence today. Nothing like it.

I didn't even know this sort of thing was even possible lol. Insane!

These videos give me bad dreams and I love it. Good work. I trip out when I follow closely and remember what is below you... pure beef.

hooks n ladders looks sketch as hell, but fun at the same time. Weird.

So awesome and so terrifying. Hats off to anybody that solo climbs that route

Wow... very impressive, you got massive skills. We rarely see anyone doing this the way you do it, alone. Massive respect from France and from a french climber ! After seeing you i wonder if what i'm doing is really climbing ^

와~~~ 낙석크네요~ 위험요소는 사전에 제거하는게 좋죠~ 멋져요~!!

와~~ A3 보는동안 손에 땀이 났어요~ 영상 잘보구~ 구독하고가요~

ouf , content d'etre arrivé a la fin de la vidéo 😅 bravo !

That route has 100 foot fall potential written all over it. Amaaaaaaazing how utterly relaxed you are stretching it out on hooks. That Alfifi strap cinch is the fcking bomb.

As a once C2 aid voyager, this all looks batshit crazy.

Ves a escalar "intifada" o "oju peligru". Llavors sabràs el que és cagar-te a les calces

Hi Oliver., really appreciated your videos, I was terrified just watching your progress up this wall over 7 days! the way you talked us up there, every step of the way explained your method. Awesome

Thanks for showing the technique. Incredible work! Greetings from Argentina South America

Excellent! Great work, Oliver! Your solo ascents are very impressive and it’s so cool to see video footage of your leads. Beautiful corner system. Thanks for putting these videos together. Looking forward to more videos of your future ascents. The shifting and popping Pecker placements make for some exciting footage. At 10:17 in the video Oliver placed a #1 BD Pecker that shifted during the first bounce-test and then shifted again while he was hanging from it. Ah, the “joy” of aid climbing. At 18:18 he placed a #1 Pecker that pulled during a bounce-test, and then it looks like he replaced it with a #2 Pecker. The longer stem of a Tomahawk increases hooking action compared to beaks like the Pecker and Camp Iron Hawk. I’m curious if a Tomahawk would have stuck better in those two placements (…said from the safety and comfort of my armchair). Using a blunt heading chisel or a 1/4” round punch can be helpful for placing beaks in tight corners and allows for more precise hammering although it requires a bit more reach and it beats up beaks pretty quickly and can create sharp burrs. As climbers know, this is why Tomahawks are available in left and right versions, in addition to the standard straight version. But on pitches like this that require so many beaks, one has to use what they have available, and it may not be possible to have the perfect piece for every placement.

So good. Subscribed!

Sweaty hands here. It must feel good when you reach the bolt after one thousand hooks.

Thanks for sharing for those of us who will never climb a5.

I saw Dire straights on this tour in 84'.

What is with that rope from above?

Just curious, do you wear climbing shoes on your big wall solos? Some kind of hybrid? I have always struggled with shoes on big aid climbs!!!

Awesome content, just finished the 1st part. Requires a totally differently wired brain to be able to do this.. Even if i had expert skills, I could never.

Oh my.. don't know nothing about aid climbing but this looks scary and extreme and you clearly know what you're doing. Id never ever have the balls to do this kind sh.. subbed. Stay safe.

All you do is climb ladders. Checked to the end. No skill and utterly boring!

ur epic my dude

13:45 Oliver: “...well, that held a bounce test...” Me: “Wardrobe! Underwear malfunction!”

BROTHERMAN! I've just dicovered you... PLEASE, let me tell you something! I newer version GoPro COSTS NOTHING! You desparetly need it to remove the nasty wind sound 🙏

You have brass cojones!

I'm surprised Oliver's videos don't get more attention. I suppose aid climbing isn't what people think is actually climbing. In reality though, Oliver is making this look easy. I did a load of El Cap routes in the early 90's such as the Zodiac (solo), PO Wall (solo), Zenyatta, Sunkist etc and I don't think people realise what a serious undertaking these wall routes really are not just in terms of climbing but logisitics and making as few mistakes as possible an obviously soloing just adds more to the workload. Even 40+years on the Sea has a very serious reputation (originally 5 A5 pitched under pitch 13) even though hook placemets have been drilled and bolts placed in lieu of RURPs it's a hair-raising proposition. Well done Oliver, bloody good show.

25:13 when you used sticky tape to hold the gear on I was like 'whaaaa!?!' but then you put the second piece on and I was like 'yeah, that looks pretty good, belt and braces' lol :D Absolutely thrilling stuff, thanks for sharing :) I used to think the Daleks were scary on the telly when I was a kid but the stuff on TH-cam these days...jeez Louise! :D

Having had to just refasten a set of coat hooks to the wall here I am absolutely SOILING MY BRITCHES watching you hanging off them there bolts! I get scared of heights just wearing thick socks...the only thing keeping me going is that you must have survived to post the video, hopefully, lol :D Bloody amazing!

Pretty confident I can fix our satellite dish with a couple of egg whisks and my wife's bra after watching this :)

Having never touched this climb, it's silly for me to wonder, but why is it that around 19 minutes the route heads off on hooks, instead the the dihedral? Is there a blank section after your last cam?

Awesome, just awesome. Thoroughly enjoyed!

bold

Cool video but you need to speak louder

Crazy hooking sir! How did you choose to take on these extremely difficult aid routes? What or who inspired you? Awesome stuff to watch and learn!

21:12 is a ahhhh moment...

“If he eats my cinnamon rolls…” 😂

You don't use cam hooks?

Good thing you had a great belayer! LOL

Why was that Totem just chilling there? bail?

Thank you very much for sharing this.

basically free soloing on hooks lol

Fix hooks with tape... Mental! Nice job

Trusting your life to those bird beaks!😳