The Art Of Solo, Matt Bush
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 พ.ค. 2017
- ‘Art of Solo’ captures Matt Bush as he free solos Paarl Mountain, one of the world’s largest granite domes in South Africa. The impressive formation is comparable to Australia’s Ayers Rock in majesty. Matt sets his sights on soloing the committing, ‘Casualties of War’ (6c+/5.11b). The route was opened in 2004 and has seen few ascents. It follows the most prominent line up the rock. Matt says, “It may only be graded 6c+/5.11b but grades are often not a true measure of difficulty for soloing. There are many other variables to factor in. I’ve soloed overhanging routes at 8a+/5.13d repeatedly but this route feels much harder. The movement style is delicate, on-balance and very technical. The margin for error is small. Sometimes the hands and feet are pressed into tiny quartzite crystals. The first crux revolves around two apposing gastons, setting the feet up high and reaching far to a good hold. It’s a dynamic move. The final crux involves a long reach off a layback with both feet smearing on marginal holds. It feels extremely exposed. These factors combine to make this a new level of solo for me. Near the top there’s a small ledge to turnaround on which is probably the highlight of the climb. When it comes to choosing a route for solo I look for something that’s challenging but the beauty of the place and the movement style are determining factors. This particular route has it all in one. It’s a dream solo.”
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Matt: Nature is my canvas, I paint with my movements.
Alex: Yeah, I like soloing.
This is one of the stupidest quote ever spoken. Corny as fuck.
Just because someone likes to express his feelings with style while others prefer to keep it simple doesn't mean you should hold either at fault
I was thinking the same. This guy is doing it for the cameras, whereas Alex Honald just enjoys it. Matt is way to pretentious.
The actual climbing: Awesome.
The pretentious drivel: Not so much.
@@majed8192 Both are expressing their feelings. One of them as a cool confident person, and the other like a corny pretentious schoolgirl.
Anyone capable of free soloing like this is by definition a remarkable human being. The mental strength, focus and discipline required are far beyond what most people can even imagine. I just wish that guys like Matt Bush and Alex Honnold would apply their unbelievable talents towards endeavors in which a single, minor mistake - inevitable for all human beings - would not result in their immediate death.
This really did not age well.
If that was me I'd be painting the rock too. Brown.
Is painting the progression from chipping rock?
Batu Yang Hidup no but that'd be cool
+Fun as Heck! not really cool if all the natural rock was painted by people who just felt like it. Climbing puts a tiny amount of wear and tear on a rock face but nothing like purposeful vandalism.
Hi Batu. I think you are taking my comment too literally. Think about what's brown and what you might do if you were really really scared. That's what I meant.
+Martin McCarthy no I fully understood it that's why I tried to post my light hearted comment that. Which Fun as Heck though I was following your trail of thought. When I thought he was following my trail of thought. All very confusing but good times.
Many unknown people have soloed hard climbing routes. Most of these people stay far far away from any media. Huge alpine faces in the Canadian Rockies have been soloed, stiff, exposed and long rock climbing route have been soloed in the Laurentians. One day, as usual, I was soloing a route and on a small ledge there was a tree. I kept climbing pass the small ledge and suddenly a small foothold broke off, I fell off immediately but the tree was not far and without even realizing what I was doing, I grab the tree at a speed nearly as fast as light (not like exagerated rambo way). It surely saved me and after that day, I did one or two more route without a rope but I finally realized that NOt a single climb anywhere in the world is worth someone's life. Immediately after the incident (that I kept secret) I saw myself as a figure of the past and I imagined people making comments like how stupid I was by climbing without a rope. Today, NO more solo climbs, now at 66 y old, I love scrambling and hiking in the mountains. It is my personnal choice.
Thank you for showing us your story.
It is very interesting for me to hear such a story from someone "unknown".
It must have felt quite weird resting on that tree, waiting to get the energy to continue that climb.
And it surprises me that you kept doing it, despite the dact it were just a few more climbs, but after that incident you did'nt stop emidiately which i think is because you had the flashbacks in the climbs after?
Thanks again for sharing it to the world, keep it cool!
Holds breaking of are probably the most common deaths in solo climbing. I once broke off a huge piece of rock while climbing (with rope). I remember that moment very clearly, suddenly, there was nothing solid to hold onto, just like the whole wall started sliding down. My immediate thoughts were that I am not only going to kill myself, but also the two people under me- my belayer and a bystander. Luckily, they both saw the rocks and jumped away. It made us all realize that these things are really unpredictable, it is almost impossible to predict them.
is it really a free solo if you don't do any 360 dynos?
Free solo climbing is the ignored sport. There is no other endeavor, sporting wise, that gives me chills like this. You guys are incredible.
incredible stupid.
It never ceases to amaze me how people will go to any lengths possible to be negative and tear people down. This was awesome to watch and very inspiring.
Back in 2016 I was amazed by Ueli Steck and his incredible solos... And you could read enthusiastic comments on You Tube, just like here with Matt Bush.
Then came 2017 and Mount Everest.
Today the comments you can read under Ueli's videos on You Tube are : ''R.I.P.''
It's not being negative and tearing down people, it's only being aware of the price they (soloists) ALL HAVE TO PAY one day, that's all.
I love mountaineering, climbing, touring ski... but, in my opinion, the most significant declaration is from Ed Viesturs : ''Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.'' In other words, even though climbing is pure passion, life is much more precious than any climb.
A single rope has the power to let you climb to the top, and, if ever, also has the power to get you down alive. You've got both worlds : climbing and staying alive !
Chris Roblin im sure the people who free solo are aware that the risk of them dying is big. But they think it is worth it. Just like some people think it is worth it to climb k2 or annapurna.
@@Zezam_ people who free solo will never try a route if they think the risk is too big. They always come prepared, literally memorizing every single move. Then making said move thousands of times. Then linking it into a route. And only then, if they are capable of ascending the route 100 out of 100 times, they will try it without rope. It's incomprehensible for an average human but free-soloists have less chance of dying than you getting randomly hit by a car.
@@brandulak not sure about that, i think it depends, not all soloists are the same. Many soloists die aswell.
@@Zezam_ The mindset doesn't change. Even people that overestimate their limits and die on the wall, wouldn't start an ascend they consider "risky" or have "big chance of dying".
Besides, a lot of free-soloists died in mountaneering accidents, not free solo ones.
Stunning, extraordinary, courageous and moving, and that's just the cameraman!
I dont care about the reasons he does this, or what he says about it, I just watch in awe at anyone capable mentally and physically to do this. Amazing!
It's mind-blowing, not a lot of things properly blow my mind but this does, free soloing is just incredible whatever anyone wants to say a out it, that is a fact.
Fisically is nothing special that route but mentally....
@@mariobotti1952nothing physically difficult? Bahaha you're talking shit mate.
@@David-yp9ou Are you a climber?
@@mariobotti1952 Yes. You're going to tell me climbing El Capitan isn't physically challenging now right?
He climbs mountains without ropes. As far as I'm concerned he can have all the ego he wants.
not really a mountain but..
True i woud probs call it a cliff
I’m your 69th like
@@mpreiss7780 you guys are stupid. Go look up the definition of a mountain lol
He isnt even the best... let that sink in
Every time I watch these solo climb videos my hands and feet get sweaty. There's no room for error, no second chances. You have to have some big balls to do this.
cringe
This guy is shredded
Holy crap that’s the first thing I thought, his arms look insane. Definitely natural too.
Great video, thank you for Saturday evenings motivation for Sundays climb.
Matt, that line looks so clean and beautiful. Truly an amazing route. Well done
I'm legit surprised he didn't say he's becoming one with the rock
Yeah he sounds like a pretentious fuck tbh =D I'm sure he is a great athlete though, just not very likeable
Was waiting for him to say he is the rock and the rock climbs him... 😂
I am almost sure none of you know anything about rock climbing.
@@martinchabre6984 I am almost sure you have nothing better to do
@@monsterpda Why is he not likeable? You just sound envious, it's embarrassing.
Love the photography! Thanks for the work and inspiration.
Had the pleasure of attending a seminar where Matt was a speaker and I must say he is a legend. You are an inspiration Matt! Keep breaking the paradigm!
Anthony ... WTF? He's no friggin' legend man!! He IS an excellent climber....period!! If he's a 'legend', then there must be millions of legends in your mixed up, misappropriated world!!
@@larryslemp9698 stfu Larry that's your opinion.
The mindset and how you piece together every move.... Free solo, it is a feeling only a few will understand.
Luckily
Yes it all in the mind, you are one with the rock you feel it breath and move.
Phenomenal!! Very few humans can do that. And I am endlessly amazed at what humans can accomplish. We are built very powerfully, very beautifully. People, develop skills, go out and do things, do whatever it is that you want to do in this world.
Great climbing from a man with balls made of titanium. Thanks for the clip - stay healthy, safe and sound.
You guys who say he's pretentious clearly don't get what it feels like to pour every hour of you life into a sport and achieve mastery. It IS art, poetry, discipline and creative expression. If you want examples of pretentious people, look at 95% of hollywood and TV. This guy is not one of them, he just dedicated his life to a single discipline and he deeply enjoys it.
@Sir Mosewald of Osely The High Executionerour definitions of art are very different then. In my opinion, this is great art.
Respect for guys like Bush or Honnold. They use their unique abilities to challenge death, and outstandingly they win.
I love how he just walks up a 75% incline like it's nothing at the end
Climbing shoes
That is genuinely astounding.
👍 love to see people live their passion. As u say Matt haters gunna hate, just keep doing what u love and some more of these climbing vids plz
Amazing feat. Once you start it, there's no turning back, but to presevere, focus, keep going until you accomplish it.
He´s impressive, controlled, confident, beautiful, very artful and in pur freedom and peace with himself
Matt and Alex are both achieving what 99.9999% of us could only dream of and people are in the comments comparing their quotes, its foolish. I'm happy to see Matt receiving recognition for what he's accomplishing, the man is inspiring.
Paarl Mountain looks pretty amazing
BEAUTIFUL shots my man - what a climb
Man why are my hands and feet sweaty from watching this. Especially that first scene 😱😱
same Here, interesting sight -> body reaction
you are just being melodramatic
and yes, drama is the sickest, most disgusting invention ever invented by mankind
Beautiful film and truly meaningful.
Beautiful to watch! *sets Casualties of War on his TODO-list*
Pure determination! Awesome!
Incredible performance!
Great climb of a beautiful canvas.
Tbh Im just amazed and impressed by the skill. I dont really care what he wants to say about it or not.
Very sympathetic person, very very good climber.
The Greatest expression of athletic endeavor EVER!
@flatearthrandy no. He has ascended to the next level, physically, spiritually, emotionally.
100 people could try that. ALL would fail. NONE would try. Sometimes you have to bow to true greatness. This is that time
@flatearthrandy you asked if i missed the El cap climb. I said no. I watched it.
My comments were in reference of that INSANE accomplishment.
Wow what a pure line!
Good job Matt great climb!!!!!!!
Music takes away from it. Better to hear the sounds of nature, wind, a bird chirping in the distance, whatever happens to be there in the moment. I’ve overdosed enough on inspirational piano music with orchestral accompaniment backing a commercial about someone who persevered through the ups and downs opening a rotisserie chicken restaurant.
To each their own. I think it’s great!
È uno sport BELLISSIMO una volta provato non lo molli più ❤️
Well executed!! 👍👍👍
fantastic and inigualable
Beautiful epic boulder.
I climb, but never FS. I skydived, but never BASE. But it’s fascinating to watch all the same and wonder why.
This route looks fantastic
Jesus Christ....i am afraid merely from watching on tv.......these free climers are incredible......my deepest respect...keep well and healthy...
Best regards from Austria
Tom
I have no words, just _________, but its a really really awesome __________!
Congratulations on your vision quest
The most beautiful part about being an artist who paints with his climbing metaphorically is that his la touche finale will literally likely be a painting reminiscent of a jackson pollock painting.
Your The Best I salute you.
This climb scares me and delights me at the same time.
Man, for a video about me, that guys doesn't look anything like me. LOL
its not about you he just has the same name as you
@@rd8586 oh my god have you ever heard of sarcasm
@@rd8586 r/wooosh
Hola, gracias por compartir tus conocimientos. me gustó el video.
llevo poco escalando pero aprendo rápido. llevo algún tiempo siguiéndote y me gusta como lo haces. se me hiela la sangre en las venas cuando veo un soloing.
This is incredible stuff and i commend those who do it. I am not moved to go out and do this myself, but the strength of mind, body and spirit to not take in WHOLLY what they are doing and complete these tasks are unbelievable. However i do understand a comment that was stated about the people that have to ALSO endure this lifestyle and those are the ones that love them. Its very difficult to imagine one slip or fall, one inch off of something and death is imminent. That's go to be hard to imagine what they go through. BUT people do what they love, and they know the risks involved. Its their passion to climb and to succeed, and its also their right to die DOING their passion. I know there is nothing we can do to take a passion away from someone, be whatever it is.
Doing Drugs is nothing different from death-defying acts, and yet people are jumping on that bandwagon everyday. So, if climbing and building your body to the most magnificent machine it can be, and challenging yourself to the ultimate acts your body can endure, than so be it. LIVE AND LET LIVE. I hope they all live to see their accomplishments and ....well, just live.
I'd love to be able to do this but I'm terrified of heights. So much respect for all these climbers.
well done ! your awesome
I think of free soloing as the point you reach where you are able to climb whilst making no mistakes, nothing but absolute perfection, and as such you have no need of rope. Rather than the idea that you have no rope and therefor are forced to climb with a complete absence of mistakes. Not sure if this makes sense or not.
There is no spoon.
It does make sense. After climbing for a bit likely everyone will have the feeling that in certain grades a fall is very unlikely or even impossible. It is soloing hard stuff that gets the attention and the common sense of people to understand not to test their belief they won't fall
I can (almost) understand a highly skilled climber soloing hard routes after he/she has climbed the same route so many times that the movements becomes internalized. I can (almost) understand soloing extremely easy routes, far below a climber's ability, without much preparation... Regardless, I don't have any interest. For me, the consequences of a mistake are too big and the rewards are too small. This coming from someone with a wife and kids who depend on me.
@@mls01981 Man, as a climber myself I couldn´t describe it any better. I always put Tommy Caldwell as an example... IMO he climbs better than Honnold but you won't see him soloing stuff exactly for what you just said.
@@mls01981 I agree, I do parkour but I'd never jump from skyscraper to skyscraper, I do a little bit of climbing too, but mostly tall trees and easy cliffs, I always make sure what I'm climbing is in good enough condition so that the surface I'm climbing won't betray me, even if I had the ability to do harder and more dangerous things, I wouldn't do it, that would be thrill-seeking, for me parkour is more like... freedom, the freedom to move however you like and make the sad and grumpy world, with simple and boring structures, a tad bit more fun. and that's all
This guy and Alex honnold would be the best friends ever . Great job 👏 and impressive skills guys
Matt , keep up the good work bro.
unbelievable
Immagini stupende. Grazie
Awesome!
I know this climber from SA. Epic climbing. Strange personality. He climbs though, better than 99.9999% of anyone commenting here. There's definitely something to be learnt from Matt.
Doug Golding I feel dumb for asking this but where exactly is SA? Thanks.
south africa
I dont get it, he first climbs with a rope, fails realy high up, and then proceeds to climb the fn thing free solo.... HOW is it possible to keep your head that cool all the time?
"Okey here is the point where i fell 3 times on practise with rope" Id fucking freak out... But thats also why im siting behind a PC..
Amazing to say the least!
no its all for show. he would have climbed that route on a rope without falling many times before
nyrbsamoht right. At some point you exactly now the choreography of the line.
What's with the hate? Any time you make a lot of choices that only you can make (such as how to climb a rock face with no ropes) it gives you a feeling of creativity. There is nothing presumptuous or egotastic about this guy telling people what he gets out of climbing in terms of creativity. It's probably true that Honnold can't express anything as sincere because it would be purely egotistical and socially unacceptable. I mean, he's making a movie like "look at me I'm climbing the greatest wall in the shortest time". There is obviously a huge competitive component inherent in Honnold's approach or mindset whereas the dude in this video is just expressing the personal sense of creativity he gets from climbing.
free solos are just highball boulders. change my mind.
on the real tho, this is bananas. great climbing.
beautiful
I don't understand how those guys can do these crazy things.
Thats why white people have progressed so much
@@jenny-DD 🤡
Although somewhat melodramatic, this man is soloing for the right reasons. Secretly one of the best climbing shorts in years.
Dude is crazy shredded!!
That looks like a beautiful line....
What’s the amazing music 🎵 it’s awesome 😎
John Bachar, Derek Hersey, Vik Hendrickson, Robert Steele, Dwight Bishop, Jimmy Ray Forester, Jimmy Jewell, Tony Wilmott, and John Taylor.
Just Awesome :-)
Amazing Climb
“I’m formulating my success through failure”
deep
Genial video saludos desde Ecuador
I once soloed a couple t-girls in Brazil, you don’t see me bragging about it 🤷♂️
Heart less man.Salute to yours bravery
WOWWWWWWWWWWWW INCREDIBLE!!!
thanks you
As a painter and poet, I wish he hadn't ruined the imagery of what he does by speaking over the epic soundtrack accompanying this visionary delight. I know I'm a cock and i'll croak early morning just to catch a breath again in this tiny hut with a worm down my lungs. Wish I could have climbed more.
Really i extreamly strange ...love it .and takecare
Bro.big congrats 👍
congratulations to him, it is an amazing ability to free solo, and to witness it in action. However, I have a lot of Rock and Ice magazines and Climbing magazines that are old and collecting dust. On those covers are Steck, Bachar, Reardon, Derek Hersey..they should be alive and climbing, but they are dead. For what? They thought that they could perform under extreme pressure every single time, when they should have known that no one can. But I would never take a persons adventure or dictate what adventure is. All the power to him. For me I know the consequence is not worth holding your arms up over your head and having a feeling of accomplishment for a day or week or so. While I think of this, I have a magazine where the climber Russ Clune talked about soloing Supercrack ( 5.12?) in the Gunks repeatedly. One day he put a rope on and led it with a partner, wheras he suddenly popped off of a hold and fell when up high. He never thought of soloing in the same way after that, is what I remember taking from the story...
Mi sudano le mani solo a guardare il video
Mad respect
A Bru keep it up keep striving your awesome Bru.
Bravo Matt
BRAVO
2:50 epic stand and view
Primo bro ..Kia Kaha!!!🤗
Very cool
Linda escalada parabens
I so want to climb like this one day looks like fun
TOTAL RESPECT
100% concentration and deeply inside to his soul.
or 0% concentration and 100% outside, awakened ?