Alex Honnold & Tommy Caldwell Speed Climb The Nose - Epic Timelapse!
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- On June 6, 2018, Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell climbed The Nose on El Capitan in 01:58:07, setting a speed record for the ages, and fulfilling Honnold’s lifetime goal of a sub-2-hour Nose ascent. This is the actual record breaking climb, bottom to top, in one continuous time-lapse shot.
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I guess we are a rare breed Alex, Tommy and me. I once climbed a ladder to get a Frisbee off the roof pretty darn fast.
Ladders are about my speed as well.
well, ill guess we are 4 now
"but I got down the fastest, and it only took 3 months before the casts came off...."
…even scarier that it was a bungalow.
Those things really mess with your perception of how high up you actually are, like ‘Am I technically on the second floor now?’
You should have seen how fast I climbed the stairs to watch Naruto. That was during my prime.
This is perhaps the most incredible footage of anything outside of pure nature that I've ever seen. To capture in one shot something so impossible. Incredible.
Technically its thousands of shots. One frame captured every few seconds. I you slowed it down to real time, it would be a series of still images.
Simon Simon Thats literally every video at any fps if you slow it down enough but I get your point.
@@simonsimon9880 Yes, one frame per second actually
this is simply mindblowing. it goes on forever and ever... an amazing feat
@@martins3183 Awesome suggestion!! That was great.
I'm not a climber, but love watching this stuff. This is the first film I've seen where I got a sense of how frickin' big that hunk of rock is.
I've been on that big hunk of rock and this video does a great job of putting it in perspective. They look like ants climbing a rock. I'm not a climber either, but you can hike up to the top and take a climbing class at the base, which is what we did.
You need to watch Free Solo
@@OneShot_WOLF Oh I have dozens of times. When it first came out, I almost went to see it in an IMAX theatre. I decided not to at the last minute then ended up buying it on AppleTV. It freaks me out watching it on a 42" TV. I'd have needed O2 if I'd seen it in IMAX size!
If you can ever make it out to Yosemite, please make the trip. It is incredibly beautiful and you can park on the side of the road and have your lunch next to El Cap, bring binoculars you never know if you'll see climbers.
I agree about gaining a sense of the scale from this video. Even watching a climber in person doesn’t give you the same comprehension that this video does. Because you’re able to “visually digest” the ascent within 2.5 minutes, you’re able to track the scale of the human vs the rock face.
they looked more like small spiders climbing a rock to me, the shape , the speed was almost bang on. that said it's actually quite a mind boggling event and to do it with such little fan fare too. astounding really. back in the 50's they took months to climb that face.
Yeah, I thought they appeared like crabs running up a tree
49 days?? Try 18months first ascent of the nose
More like ants
@@petersoutar2576 you’re wrong, Warren Harding was first ascent and took 45 days of climbing
The time in between actual climbing doesn’t count
@@petersoutar2576 it took 18 months for the first climb of the Dawn Wall, not the nose
To put it into perspective
Most people spend a day to get the first few pitches done, haul all the food and gear up, and do this over a week.
These guys did it in under 2 hours and would have been able to walk down in time to have lunch.
A week would be on the long end. 3-5 days is probably more common.
I guess you are trying to build up their feat, but you reaching 😅
@@gamma9141 It would be impossible to "build up" their feat. The feat is already at the tip top.
do people spend a night on the ropes or something?
@@NecroxProduction they carry up portable ledge and camp out for a week
at first I thought this high speed video looked silly but then i saw how effectively it shows the scale of what the climbers are actually climbing. you get a whole new appreciation for both the climbing skill and also the majesty of the environment they are climbing
I completely agree! It was beautiful and amazing ohhh bonus on seeing the cracks and route so easily from this perspective
In Scotland we have hills above 3,000 feet we call Munros (282 in total). It’s a very popular pastime to “bag a Munro” as there’s only 1 or 2 that you need climbing gear to top. To see two people scale a cliff face that is basically the height of a Munro is just staggering!
It usually takes us 1.5 to 2 hours to walk up most Munros but that’s on a path with gradients you can walk up easily enough, to see someone climb 2,900 feet vertically in under 2 hours is just stunning.
3,000 feet is a small hill not comparable
@@tayosmallwood2416 It's the same elevation as this cliff face so why is it not comparable?
@Transiens That was a professional mountain runner (some of the fittest people in the world, the current Ben Nevis race record holder has ran a marathon in around 2 hours 15 minutes), most "ordinary hikers" will take 3-4 hours to just get to the top of Ben Nevis and around 2-3 hours to descend.
@@tayosmallwood2416 do you think before you type?
@@tayosmallwood2416 3000ft is not comparable to 3000ft? Interesting…
If anything, this short video - even more than "Free Solo" in my humble opinion - shows just how enormous El Capitan really is. Every time I think Tommy and Alex must be close to the top, the camera just keeps going up...and up...and up. Incredible.
Showing this in in one continuous time-lapse shot is EXCELLENT and mind blowing. If I didn't know in advance WHAT is being climbed and WHO is climbing, I might well have assumed I was watching ants working their way to a food source.
Not too many Moons ago this face was deemed "unclimable" by the best in the business of the day. I believe the first ascent ever completed took something like 3 weeks. If you told them that soon a couple of Cats would run up the Nose in 2 hours you would have been put in a straight jacket and institutionalized. Also, Alex has free climbed it! And Tommy is missing a finger on one hand! Pretty unbelievable stuff...
Oh god did he lose it climbing? I was just wondering how often that must happen 😳
@@Leto_0 He lost it using a table saw.
Alex free soloed it, but ig he has also free climbed it so not wrong
@@andrewmitchell5807 Alex did not free solo "The Nose" he soloed "Freerider". He only free soloed some of the pitches of it.
@@FelixIsGood from that perspective, the comment we're replying to is just totally wrong. Honnold never free climbed the nose
Man, this really gives you a sense of scale. It seems endless. Reminds me of the cockpit instrument shot in Airplane! that goes on forever.
What are you referring to when you say cockpit instrument shot?
@@henrycooper7930 the movie "Airplane!" There is a gag where they have a shot of the plane's instruments, and start panning to show more and more instruments and dials and buttons, and it just keeps panning far further than could possibly be realistic, and keeps going. Pretty funny gag. So the cliff shot here just seems to keep panning up more and more, more than seems possible.
Roger!
@@0anant0 What's your vector, Victor?
Also the opening shot of Spaceball I (an 11 kilometer long starship) in the movie "Spaceballs."
That gives a real sense of the route for those who are not familiar with it.
wow that was some of the most incredible climbing footage i've ever seen! what a great perspective.
Like ants man haha
The problem with "Free Solo" is that it lacked almost any shots that fully captured the scale of what Alex Honnold was doing -- climbing a sheer face of granite without ropes. This video, because it's so zoomed out, does give a sense of how incredible that feat was.
The thing is, Free Solo was more about Alex Honnold character study. The documentary makers were very clear in setting that out. So the camera/video crew (Jimmy Chen) purposefully shot the climb with closed in shots as opposed to a video like this, which was only a time lapse. Free Solo is still a magnificent piece of work and to this day, one i still struggle watching without pause because my palms and soles just sweat watching it, even knowing it turns out fine. Truly one of mankind's greatest achievements and will forever be in the history books.
Free solo gave a much much better perspective of what the climb is like though. this wide angle zoomed out view doesnt give any gravity to what they are actually doing because you lose the intimacy with the wall. it just looks like a boring climb because we dont really see the pitches and angles they have to negotiate. free solo did have wide zoomed out shots of the climb, maybe you just forgot or didnt pay attention??
@@orion7741 yeah, there were a couple of zoomed out shots but not enough and not properly done (zoomed out drone shots, for example) IMO. Bought the digital version but haven't watched it again for that reason though. That and the annoying repeated shots of the camera guy looking away and biting his nails. Oh, and the annoying gold digger girlfriend.
Not sure I'd say that was a problem - they're completely different types of footage.
Also, for anyone reading who isn't clear on this point, the climb recorded in this video was done with ropes and anchors, you can even see them using them to pendulum between sections of the route at least twice. They set it, probably from the top down, and then left it all in place and did this same route 3 times that week (May 30 to June 6, 2018). Very few climbers could even afford to do that, it's thousands of dollars worth of gear.
THose two guys are literal legends.
Unfreakin' believable! Tommy and Alex are super-human, super amazing, super cool, super outrageous, and super bad-ass!!
It's amazing that they blow by the humans climbing in the first five hundred feet. Really puts how fast they are doing it in perspective.
This is the climbing footage I've been /dreaming/ about seeing! I'm in awe
A few years ago, Stan Lee had a TV series where he went out and found people with real superhuman abilities. Alex and Tommy definitely would belong on that show. Complete respect!
RIP Brad
Brad Gobright?
@@funkylosik yea :(
my wife didn't know what I was watching, she thought it's two bugs climbing up a wall :D
2:33 when Alex says “oooh yah” in that accent, I can’t help but think of Free Solo. I think the movie had 1 too many f words to maintain their rating, so when Alex mouths F**k yeah after completing the boulder problem, it was overdubbed with a hilarious “ooooh yahh.” I choose to believe that Alex found the final cut hilarious and has added that catch phrase into his arsenal.
all you need to know is it's Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell and you know it will be epic
I observe little spiders crawling my walls all the time, it's amazing how well the motion matches, little re-positions followed by jerky bursts.
When the spiders stop they’re chalking up for the next moves.
This is up there with the 2hr marathon. These 2 are freakin absolute beasts!!
Wow, the camera just keeps going up. I wish they had more wide shots like this in Free Solo. Or at least the quick time-lapse like this one
The angles they had were gutwrenching enough, seeing a perspective like this on free solo would probably have made me physically sick.
Such an amazing shot. Seriously so perfect and smooth. That must have been extremely difficult to get that in 1 take. I can't even imagine the pressure of having to get that shot perfectly on the first and only try. Truly incredible just like the climb itself
it wouldnt have been difficult to film at all , they arent going fast up the wall, haven't u ever used a camera?
@@MegaCharns LMAO. That's adorable! You are either a child, a troll or both
Would love to just put this on with normal speed. Perfect for self-quarantine. Any thought to releasing a slower version?
Watch the full documentary. Its worth watching it
Santiago Salcedo I saw it when it premiered. Agreed it’s a good one.
not likely. the framerate on these timelapses isn't the same. Its not like taking a normal video and speeding it up. They take one frame every few seconds or few minutes to make these kind of time lapses.
@@pinkyfull awesome thanks for the explananation !
@@santiagosalcedo7909 where can i find it?
looks like a trail of ants
...on blue cheese.
Derick Zoolander: “what is this? A rock climb for ants?!?”
I don't, nor will ever have children, but seeing humans achieve in this way gives me a sense of familial pride. Well done, lads! 👍❤️💪
looks like ants crawling up a rock, amazing
I come back to watch this documentary every few months, and it never gets old
The amount of bravery, non fear of heights, skill, stamina and strength this must require, you gotta give it to them to be able to accomplish this 👏👏👏
They're not free soloing so fear of heights isn't really a factor .. they're secure the entire way
@@yaboyvickk5635 Speed climbing El Cap at this level involves a lot of risk. There is continuous potential for huge falls. It is a trade-off of security against speed.
@@yaboyvickk5635 They are not "secure the entire way", silly. In fact in a lot of places a fall would have been lethal.
This record will stand for along time! Epic
Eh, I think people always said that and yet there's always someone who challenges it pretty quickly.
No, this one will stand for a while. It felt like the entire climbing community breathed a sign of "ok, can we stop this please" when they finally broke the 2 hour mark.
Make no mistake, this isn't just about athleticism. They took way bigger risks in this, than Honnold took on Freerider. If I had to pick one to be repeated first, it would be soloing Freerider.
@@simonsimon9880 Genuinely curious because I dom't know but what were the bigger risks here?
@@drdre4397 when you're simul-climbing (no fixed belay, both climbers moving with any number of pieces of protection between them), your speed is dictated both by how fast both climbers move, but also by how often you stop to place or remove pro. So, when you're trying to cover 3600 ft in under 2 hours, you're both pushing your body to its limit in how fast you can cover ground, AND shaving out all but the bare minimum of safety measures (and, opinions on what counts as the "bare minimum" will vary wildly)!
Certainly, Alex Honnold has said that he felt like he took WAY bigger risks setting this speed record, than he did in soloing Freerider (in the movie Free Solo). The slow, methodical climbing, even without a rope, allowed him the time to put more care into his risk assessment process, than the complete balls-to-the-wall madness of the speed climbing, often in situations where the rope would have been of very little use anyways.
In short, it's really hard to see where someone might shave more time off the route, without essentially just speed- free soloing it. It could certainly happen one day, but I wouldn't count on it.
Never had so much respect for what spiders do everyday 😎
I don't care how fast you speed that up, it still makes my scalp burn and my palms sweat! It would actually be fun to show this to someone and tell them that it is a video of two ants crawling across a rock and then show them the real-time vid of two guys doing the virtually impossible/unimaginable!
That's so freaky,, it looks like spiders crawling up a wall.
Was gonna comment the same thing
They are climbing up a practically vertical wall at an average speed of 0.25 mph. The combination of strength, balance, mental focus, endurance, agility and skill make this a truly outstanding accomplishment in this, or any other sport!!!
Tommy Caldwell first person to climb the dawn wall
Alex honnold first person to free solo el captain
Two of the worlds best climbers in my opinion
Warren Harding and Dean Caldwell were the first to climb the Dawn Wall
Alex & Tommy you guys are wonderful to watch and listen to your interviews❤😂 I climbed the Gunks in the late 1970’s pushing 74 years ole now…
What is this, a timelapse for ants?!
This is a record that will never be broken in my lifetime. It’s on par with DiMaggio 56 games, Ripken’s Ironman streak, etc... I just can’t see how it’ll ever be touched. Unless by these two guys.
I'd take that bet. The other two records have a ton of variables. This is just a big moment in climbing's progression. We're already seeing that a lot more people will be able to physically, and inevitably some of them will like big walls.
@@kbar9477 I’m sure you know much better than I do so maybe it can be. I was just trying to say how impressive this is and assumed it was a record that would be virtually impossible to best. Maybe that’s not the case; which sure is saying something!
@@rm1133 Nobody before or in their generation could do this, which makes it amazing. It's just there are so many strong kids on the way up it'd be too risky to bet against them. Things are gonna get crazy.
Alex and Tommy set the two previous records 2 days and 7 days prior, respectively. Only this time did they break the 2-hour mark so it seems unlikely they'll repeat. It's a lot of work to set all that safety (ropes, anchors etc.) ahead of time. It also cutters the route for all the other climbers setting their own protection. So you may well be right that nobody goes to the trouble to break this record any time soon.
At the first I thought they were ants and just talking. Absolute crazy what these guys are able to do
Absolutely nuts. I will never have the balls to do it or physical strength to undertake such a task but man that is amazing. Love to see humans complete amazing feats.
That is an amazing feet of athleticism. Just remarkable. Wow!
It's just incredible, they are like flies sticking to the rock, absolutely immense to be able to do that, much, much respect x
This sped up video makes me think that just as ants are ants to humans, humans are ants to some other species.
I thought they looked like a pair of ants or spiderlings too🤣
I also thought of ants and how small we are
Nah, the difference between ants and humans is far more massive than the difference between humans and blue whales (the world's largest species.)
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Which other species are we ants to?
The REEL "GOAT" Alex n Tommy. Keep safe at all times.
Absolutely insane... you’re incredible
Watched the full program last night... the people they had to pass and still smashed their own record.. excellent
Makes my climbing gym feel so small.
This is the most enjoyable video I've ever watch.
Maaan you are crazy
Damn... the sheer amount of stamina is mind-blowing.
They are climbing 25 feet per minute for two hours! Sounds harder than a marathon to me.
So much respect for these guys. Unreal.
This reminds of when my friend and I bet on which ant will cross the sidewalk first.
Only difference is that the ants aren't the gnarliest in the world at crossing sidewalks.
These two are just pure 🤘😫🤘
So I'm watching this 4 years later and I'm still holding my breathe nervously.
Wish I could see this is real time and close up!!!
Watch it on reel rock 14. It's badass.
As a none climber I really struggle to comprehend how people like Alex do the shit they do. Saw him on a podcast a few years ago then watched free solo and every video I’ve watched since has continued to blow my mind.
Sometimes it takes me longer to get out of bed in the morning
So unbelievable! It is so thrilling to watch the peak of athletic ability.
you nailed it. i would add mental ability too. it is Human Potential at its finest.
I wonder if this is how that ant that climbed up my wall felt. Now I feel bad for flicking him off.
I can watch this hundred times and remain amazed every time I watch this performance..they look like spiders, unbelievable
Funny thing is this looks like 90s special effects. Like they filmed 2 spiders climbing up a wall and modified it to make it look like humans.
I'm not a climber and this is simply incredible! Stay safe guys!
The dream team, for sure. How long will that record stand? Long time, I reckon.
Expect at least a generation. Like Bob Beamon with his long jump.
For ever, I hope. They were arguably taking way bigger risks than anything Honnold did on freerider.
@@simonsimon9880 you think so? I mean, alex's chance of dying was a lot higher in free solo, no? I am total noob, really asking out of curiosity
Probably won't stand for a long time. Brad Gobright and his partner put up a time of 2:19:44 and previously held the record, so Honnold and Caldwell aren't aliens from another planet or anything. If Gobright were still alive, he could probably challenge it. Still, there are few persons in the world who have the stamina, climbing skill, and guts (or insanity) to make a go at that record, and then you need two such persons to form a team.
@@simonsimon9880 wrong
Gotta admire how smooth that camerawork was, considering it was sped up like that.
It sounded like they were using still images at 1fps to make this time-lapse, so all you'd have to do its keep the climbers in frame.
So damn impressive! I couldn't even walk that fast 😉
Are you a koala?
Watching this makes me happy.
Was it free solo or roped, definitely not knocking it, 2 of the best athletes in the world both at the top of their game, much respect to both climbers, yall do what is impossible to most humans and you make it look easy, incredible just incredible
It was every technique in the book. Mostly solo aid and rope solo/similclimbing. Whatever is fastest!
I agree. It's very confusing, and there doesn't seem to be any mention of it in the video. It should be with ropes but I can't see them on the walls. I will have to check the full documentary for better view of the climb, appreciate real speed effort and difficulty of the rocks.
Best climbing footage ever!
Muchas gracias!! Very well done!!
This is absolutely ludicrous. The potential of human beings is beyond the beyond
I'm pretty sure they just climbed that wall faster than I could walk a floor of the same shape and size.
I know it's a joke, but flat you could walk it in less than 15 minutes
This was amazing. Thank you for creating and posting!
This is dope actually got to meet Tommy @ Yosemite
This is amazing!
Absolutely insane!!! Heights mess with me so bad it’s ridiculous. I can do 100 mph wheelies all day long. But if I look over an edge or even think to hard about heights I fall to my knees due to some weird shit that happens to me. Doesn’t make any sense. And this is why I want to skydive, preferably in a squirrel suit so that I can get the full experience. Maybe some day
ironically you're more likely to die doing a 100mph wheelie...
They blasted by a few climbers along the way, who must have been blown away by seeing TC and AH disapearing in the distance, as they climbed like the rest of us, humans. At least they now have the pleasure of being here on this film... -"see, junior, that little spec of a creature there isn't an insect, it's daddy"
Makes you wonder if those little jumping spiders you see, the ones with the big curious eyes, if they see us moving in slow motion0
I think they do actually. I once read that fruit flies perceive time like 5 times slower because their brains are smaller.
HOLY S***!!! He was literally flying up that mountain! 1 minute and 58 seconds, truly remarkable.
The 2 greatest climbers
I'm sure Adam Ondra might have a word or two to say about that
This is absolutely insane, and amazing!
Those ants are very impressive. Now can we see humans do this?
Some people look at a sheer cliff and just see a ladder. Crazy men. Excellent vid.
For a moment I thought, it was a spoof - I was watching ants or spiders on a rock
Giants standing on the shoulders of giants.
So in awe.
I'll promise to never step on an ant again
For me it was two nights...party wall we called it. Bachar (and crew) toped out right after us at like 10 or so hours. We said hello and they were gone, off to rap down for brewskis. we made it down and in time for celebrations. That was an insane time then (first couple of years in the 80"s). It's all Changed. You bolt back then your ass, and gear, was on the line. Chop chop. Valley, and camp 4, was so much different. Sadly todays generation can never experience that free time there...but there are still other places. Not the same USA from the 70/80/90"s.
this sounds interesting but could someone translate it into English for me?
A beast, wonderful
Great video. Thanks to whomever did this. They looked like spiders going up a wall.
If Tommy wouldn't have gotton lost several times this would be around 1:46:00
Insane no words can implement this achievement 🙈
Incredible cyborgs climbing in 3 minutes wow!
What's the bravest and stupidest thing you can do at the same time?
- *Climbing a motherfucking Mountain*
Looks like ants climbing a wall
I beat this record last summer, doing some free solo's some evenings and nights. Will have to go for it again this year and record it for you guys. Loved the view from the top, stay climbing!
no u didnt
Every can do it if they have a dream and don't give up. That's what's so cool about climbing.
Love this lapse. Makes the climbers look like little ants. Climbing ants :)
Human spiders!!! So talented I'd like to meet these dudes. Well done guys!!
1:16. how he came from top of the stone to that left side so fast. Was that a jump?
It is a rope swing I believe
That was the coolest time lapse. It was less than 1-60th the actual time.....I think , lol. I could watch this video 58 times and they can climb that ! Insane little spiders