Watch Stas Beskin climb narrow ice climbs in Canada. This is not an instructional video and these skills should only be attempted by expert ice climbers.
It's definitely an interesting technique worth experimenting with - like climbing thin ice, where you chip an edge and then hook it. The guy's right when it comes to people riding pillars too - the pillar breaks because people hit them too often and too hard, usually near the top where the stresses are greatest because they are pumped and/or scared.
Excellent. A real development in the formalization of a valid technical improvement. The 'groove cutting' is the real innovation I think, allowing the heavily forward inclined front tooth to repeatedly chip out it's none-fractured support placement. There might even be a little pressure-melt and re-gelation of the ice that helps lock the pick tip into the slot. Full fucking marks for the research and the share... xxx ;-)
Very well demonstrated. But as noted below it is basically how you normally climb really thin ice where you can't swing into it either. Or delicate hanging curtains.
Wow! I've free-soloed 3,000 vertical feet of WI5 in one day, free-soloed one pitch of WI5 with a sea kayak hanging from my harness, and free-soloed one pitch of WI5 hopping on one leg, but I have never been able to free-solo an ice pillar this slender! NICE!!!
This dude is out of his mind!!!! In the best way possible, I loved every second of this
It's definitely an interesting technique worth experimenting with - like climbing thin ice, where you chip an edge and then hook it. The guy's right when it comes to people riding pillars too - the pillar breaks because people hit them too often and too hard, usually near the top where the stresses are greatest because they are pumped and/or scared.
Excellent. A real development in the formalization of a valid technical improvement. The 'groove cutting' is the real innovation I think, allowing the heavily forward inclined front tooth to repeatedly chip out it's none-fractured support placement. There might even be a little pressure-melt and re-gelation of the ice that helps lock the pick tip into the slot. Full fucking marks for the research and the share... xxx ;-)
Wild. Never seen anything like it. Amazing.
Very well demonstrated. But as noted below it is basically how you normally climb really thin ice where you can't swing into it either. Or delicate hanging curtains.
Wow! I've free-soloed 3,000 vertical feet of WI5 in one day, free-soloed one pitch of WI5 with a sea kayak hanging from my harness, and free-soloed one pitch of WI5 hopping on one leg, but I have never been able to free-solo an ice pillar this slender! NICE!!!
Insane! My hand are sweaty :O
Nackspark nice bro
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You are crazy awesome, but watching this raises my blood pressure :D
What's the point of the rope? I don't see it being attached to any anchor?
Let's him bring up his partner and/or rap off
MASTER : CHAPEAU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
seems legit.