Carl Swenson hardly a revolution just in the public eye, as Alex Honnold said to Niall Grimes on the Jam Crack podcast UK trad climbers pretty much all free solo if you include the ground fall run outs on our routes 😉
@@Rambleale having any gear, a rope and a partner is a far cry from planning, from the beginning, to solo your intended route. my point is, the ethos of sport climbing is changing (perhaps due to so much attention). more sport climbers are looking at soloing higher dificulty routes as the ideal, and not outside the scope of the sport. 10 (maybe 5 or 6) years ago, the things many climbers (not just alex honnold) in many different venues have accomplished solo would be unthinkable to the average climber in said venue, specifically highball bouldering (nalle hukkataival) and crazy big mountain routes (david llama). publicity (especially amazing free yt content) of any kind is just fuel for young people to look, and think, 'ah! clearly, without a rope is the best'.
Wrong. Complete bullshit actually ... People have always free soloed, easy stuff as well as hard stuff. And there have always been youtube clips of that: +1999 Beat Kammerlander soloing "Mordillo" (8a+) +2002 Alex Huber soloing "Hasse Brandler" (7a+) at Tre Cime and +2004 Alex Huber soloing "Kommunist" (8b+) at Schleierwasserfall +the old Honnold films +Will Stanhope soloing Joshua Tree or Zombie Roof +Dave McLeod soloing 8c+(?) Spain +Dean Potter soloing "Heaven" +Alain Robert soloing Verdon +Mich Kemeter (Base) Soloing in Verdon +Magnus Mitbo soloing in Verdon and so on ... Nobody who free solos uses UA-cam videos as "fuel". And especially the majority of younger climbers are not at all interested in free soloing, they are interested in hard moves at their limit.
Carl Swenson mate the wink implied I was being at least slightly tongue in cheek. Search for Jonny Dawes Indian Face, the choice has never been sport or solo.
Hazel looked to be soloing on these routes. I'm not sure I'm comfortable with this explosion in soloing of recent. All this soloing promotion is going to end in misery for some, not sure that is what we want to get from climbing. And yes Hazel is very beautiful.
I think its one of those things that just so happen to align. I mean the production of these isn't just a few weeks or months. Free Solo took about 3ish years to make and back then there wasn't any craze for free soloing things. I trust that the climbing community is smart enough to put safety first above all things.
I think it is not as much an explosion of people soloing but more of a it´s more acceptable to talk about it now and to show it to an audience - there is something similar in high lining (slack lining) where people usually do their solo walks alone and do not really open up about it to friends and family
There have always been videos of people free soloing every now and then, and people who were interested in that style of climbing have always watched those clips: +1999 Beat Kammerlander soloing "Mordillo" (8a+) +2002 Alex Huber soloing "Hasse Brandler" (7a+) at Tre Cime and +2004 Alex Huber soloing "Kommunist" (8b+) at Schleierwasserfall +the old Honnold films +Will Stanhope soloing Joshua Tree or Zombie Roof +Dave McLeod soloing 8c+(?) Spain +Dean Potter soloing "Heaven" +Alain Robert soloing Verdon +Mich Kemeter (Base) Soloing in Verdon +Magnus Mitbo soloing in Verdon and so on ... It's just that now that Free Solo came out, people who were never interested in that niche of climbing think they have to comment on every bit of soloing they see - which is kind of annoying actually.
Yes!!! A longer edit would be sick!
I was speaking at a filmmaking event at ShAFF at the weekend and said that I did not want to create another version... but maybe.
longer edit please, loved the film
Yes please, I'd like a longer edit too thanks
Longer edit!
Anybody know what shoes Hazel was running in?
Really nice
I'm so 20th century that I wondered how they got a helicopter to film her.
What a babe ... the solo revolution is here
Carl Swenson hardly a revolution just in the public eye, as Alex Honnold said to Niall Grimes on the Jam Crack podcast UK trad climbers pretty much all free solo if you include the ground fall run outs on our routes 😉
@@Rambleale having any gear, a rope and a partner is a far cry from planning, from the beginning, to solo your intended route. my point is, the ethos of sport climbing is changing (perhaps due to so much attention). more sport climbers are looking at soloing higher dificulty routes as the ideal, and not outside the scope of the sport. 10 (maybe 5 or 6) years ago, the things many climbers (not just alex honnold) in many different venues have accomplished solo would be unthinkable to the average climber in said venue, specifically highball bouldering (nalle hukkataival) and crazy big mountain routes (david llama). publicity (especially amazing free yt content) of any kind is just fuel for young people to look, and think, 'ah! clearly, without a rope is the best'.
Wrong. Complete bullshit actually ...
People have always free soloed, easy stuff as well as hard stuff. And there have always been youtube clips of that:
+1999 Beat Kammerlander soloing "Mordillo" (8a+)
+2002 Alex Huber soloing "Hasse Brandler" (7a+) at Tre Cime and
+2004 Alex Huber soloing "Kommunist" (8b+) at Schleierwasserfall
+the old Honnold films
+Will Stanhope soloing Joshua Tree or Zombie Roof
+Dave McLeod soloing 8c+(?) Spain
+Dean Potter soloing "Heaven"
+Alain Robert soloing Verdon
+Mich Kemeter (Base) Soloing in Verdon
+Magnus Mitbo soloing in Verdon
and so on ...
Nobody who free solos uses UA-cam videos as "fuel".
And especially the majority of younger climbers are not at all interested in free soloing, they are interested in hard moves at their limit.
Carl Swenson mate the wink implied I was being at least slightly tongue in cheek. Search for Jonny Dawes Indian Face, the choice has never been sport or solo.
Hazel looked to be soloing on these routes. I'm not sure I'm comfortable with this explosion in soloing of recent. All this soloing promotion is going to end in misery for some, not sure that is what we want to get from climbing.
And yes Hazel is very beautiful.
I think its one of those things that just so happen to align. I mean the production of these isn't just a few weeks or months. Free Solo took about 3ish years to make and back then there wasn't any craze for free soloing things. I trust that the climbing community is smart enough to put safety first above all things.
Have a search and read up more on her climbing, she is well within her capabilities on those routes.
"Explosion", "Frenzy", ... what??? How many free solo films/clips have been released since Free Solo? Names and links please.
I think it is not as much an explosion of people soloing but more of a it´s more acceptable to talk about it now and to show it to an audience - there is something similar in high lining (slack lining) where people usually do their solo walks alone and do not really open up about it to friends and family
There have always been videos of people free soloing every now and then, and people who were interested in that style of climbing have always watched those clips:
+1999 Beat Kammerlander soloing "Mordillo" (8a+)
+2002 Alex Huber soloing "Hasse Brandler" (7a+) at Tre Cime and
+2004 Alex Huber soloing "Kommunist" (8b+) at Schleierwasserfall
+the old Honnold films
+Will Stanhope soloing Joshua Tree or Zombie Roof
+Dave McLeod soloing 8c+(?) Spain
+Dean Potter soloing "Heaven"
+Alain Robert soloing Verdon
+Mich Kemeter (Base) Soloing in Verdon
+Magnus Mitbo soloing in Verdon
and so on ...
It's just that now that Free Solo came out, people who were never interested in that niche of climbing think they have to comment on every bit of soloing they see - which is kind of annoying actually.