Alex Honnold's Welsh slate climbing experience
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- While on his "Flying Solo" tour, we took Alex Honnold to the Welsh slate quarries with pro-climber Hazel Findlay and legend Johnny Dawes.
As Alex says about slate climbing, "For the real connoisseur of world climbing I feel like it's a must-visit". But which route do you think he found to be like "normal" Yosemite climbing?
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Love how every time Alex is being interviewed he looks like he's just about fall a sleep. Like he's almost slurring his speech. He must get no excitement or fear from anything else but climbing.
Remember seeing some English guy, who was one of the few true samurais left, cant remember his name interviewed and he had very similar eyes, cant really interpret the look but it seemed to reflect great self control and alertness coupled with a fearless quality. He was very dangerous and one who one all tournamenst of the samurai martial art.
"He's probably better at climbing than Bear Grylls even"
scoco86 bear grylls is an accomplished mountaineer
I never doubted it :)
Nick Lozica - A comparison to Bear Grylls is still an insult. Alex has been called the world's best free soloist by many an expert. What I like best about him is that he seems to have no idea how famous he is...😂😂😂
He was one of the youngest to ever summit Everest. Grylls is no slouch even if people give him shit. He's not a free soloer like Honnold though, and Honnold is the best in that category for sure.
comparing a climber with a mountaineer is pure ignorance
This dude changed my life. I broke my back climbing in 1995. I didn't work out again until this year. I saw his climbs, got off my ass and have not only climbed up 150 feet, but climbed down the same. Just inspiring. Thank you Alex, Vivian, and Johnny. Joined my local climbing gym and have already lost 13 pounds in 8 weeks too!
Squiggy Wigginz bro good job man! I have played extreme sports for over 20 years and broken so many damn bones. My knees are the worst and have very bad TBI. Anyways last year I could barley walk 3 blocks down the road and at that time I haven’t played sports for a few years because of how much pain I was in. Then I moved to South Dakota and my fiancé’s showed me climbing and I been addicted ever since. I kept having flash backs of my 20Ft + high falls and was like no way I’ll ever be able to climb. Well I can tell you this my fear of heights is defiantly gone lol and I can now do pistol squats on each leg. Mind you it hurts like hell, but climbing is the most freeing thing I have ever done. Hope your back feels better man, I have 5 bulged disc and multiple pinched nerves. I can’t feel my right side my neck anymore blah lol. Oh well need that adrenaline !
@@ProDMiner You sound alot like me. Bad knees from catching baseball, broken fingers that aren't straight, broken gave that tingles from hitting a tree on a dirt bike that's throttle stuck, painful feet, etc, etc. Climbing, even in the gym gives me a new found strength again. I used to climb from birth until 25. If it was only a sport back then like it is now! But now, new found love for sure. If you're ever near Cincinnati, Ohio hit me up!
Squiggy Wigginz oh for sure dude! I used to live in south bend IN I been there for the skateparks. And ya man my finger hurt so bad all the time it blows. But now I found that I stretch daily man and put my hands in some warm water and that helps. My name on Instagram is leadthewayblake.s you can follow me if you like and when I go back that way I’ll hit ya up and we can go climb :)
that bear grylls comment was a joke right? hahaha love english humor
humour*
haha, you twat :)
Lets see big balls bear climb el cap free solo
Of course he was joking, Bear Grylls is clearly the superior climber!
Welsh humour bro lol
One of the best short climbing vids I've seen in a while. Loved the understated tone, the pace, the carefully chosen voiceover and talking-head comments, the gentle doses of climbing porn, and just enough details to indicate the character of the climbing. Nice work!
Ehouse, check out some of Dawes work when he was younger and fit, makes moves you would never think possible.. polar opposite of Honold, mind you Honold approaches the climb like he's going to do it sans ropes, so he's methodic, flowing and fast.. you can only climb so much till you gas out, so energy conservation is paramount..
If you can find Dawes doing some no hands climbing, or jumping across faces it's well worth seeing.. goddam spiderman shit
Johnny Dawes is one funny dude, that one liner at the end was delivered perfectly in tone and facial expression 😂
Better climber than Bear Grylls even.... lol. Why do these guys like to shit on Mr Grylls so?
@@Pingaheimer For the same reasons everyone else does. Don't get me started!
Had the pleasure of meeting the guy while he was up at cromlech! Lovely bloke, amazing to see him do his thing!
Mad the amount of people in these comments that dont understand british sarcasm. He was obviously joking with the Bear Grylls comment lol
why? bear grykks climbed mount everest lol
How is this video not full of awesome comments?! That was really well done - beautifully shots and great story telling 👌 Thanks for sharing! You might enjoy my recent climbing vid 😊
Good Initiative, Bad Judgment
the Bear Grylls line killed me!!
I don't get that one, did Bear Grylls use to climb... lol
Is was a joke
"Sitting in that tree, watchin him climbing" 😂😂😂
I keep coming back to this video, it's probably one of my favourite ones ever. Dawes with the bear grylls reference too had me howling
Back a year later and ruined that bit of the video for myself. Lol
How he pulls himself up on those pencil thin ledges is BEYOND me!
Does Alex just always have bedhead
It's pro climber hair
Great to see Johnny again, we both share the same body type these days lol.
Getting old sux
i love how the "better climber than bear grylls" comment has people so triggered hahaha. People really don't understand British humour.
Hazel is awesome. 👍
need a chalk bag just to watch his videos
For my feet ... sweating like crazy
That Grylls comment put a smile on my face. Haha
Okay is nobody going to say? They’re totalling sleeping with each other back then right?
I don’t know. It just looks like a really close friendship. Not every male/female relationship has to result in bumping uglies together.
Shots of Andy Pollit on Manic Strain were some of the best climbing photos of the 1980's.
With all due respect. Alex is quite…em…spectrumy, isn’t he.
why isn't this vid an hour long?
Manic strain leads to manic deppresion! ha ha. I found the very same thing.
You don't hear 'Wales' and 'heat' in the same sentence very often. Has Alex been up to the Cuillins or anywhere in Scotland?
What's going on at 4.53? I'm totally not getting it? He's abseiling but I don't recognise the knot at the top, and wouldn't that make the rope unretrievable?
What he meant is that Alex is to climbing, what Bear Grylls is to drinking his own pee.
Awesome to see Alex climbing in my home country this Guy is the most relaxed person I've ever come across if I'm feeling a bit anxious about anything I just watch Alex then I'm relaxed
hahaha!! that was an unexpected 10 minute laughing fit. What a legend.
What was funny...?
Wait... Honnold is from cali and he's complaining about the heat in Wales? 😂
It's not granite
I don't think you realize that (now) for instance there is 20' of snow in the mountains of CA. Its a huge State. Climbers here deal with every kind of cold.
Black rock in full sun with tiny holds...sweaty fingers.
I wouldn't feel secure if Alex belays me like that🤣
Bear Grylls is really great at climbing on top of Guys and making full use of the hole ring and clamping on while working his fingers into crack / ready for a tricky shaft section /
But hes not even close to Alexs caliber. Its like comparing Harry Kane, to Ronaldo.
You cant mention them together like that.
@@yessir7147 yeah that's the joke...
If you rearrange the letters in Honnold, you get "Hold N On".
Oh my god, can't believe this hahah, this place is 30 minutes from my house
if Alex and Hazel decide to have a baby, will be Spiderman
All the people surprised Alex was on a rope simply never listen to anything Alex actually says. "I climb on a rope 95-97% of the time its just most of the stuff I do off of a rope it what get's plastered everywhere." Alex is notorious for sewing up routes with protection or wishing there were more bolts.
I'm convinced that she is so in love with him.
This is where i live! Bumped in to him in the shop, nice bloke
That must have been a shock if you didn't know he was in town haha
Lovely place to live! Llanberis is cool
Mannnnn you’re so lucky
That's definitely-THE ADVANCED CLASS!
i dont think i got the "probably better at climbing than bear grylls" comment/joke!?
it was sarcasm
These British types love their wit and sarcasm. Gotta be on your toes.
proper humour that
Johnny Dawes :-)
A good example of British subtlety vs. American blatancy. I'm probably being a bit racist and presumptuous here, but you did say the editing kind of sucks there, even though overall the editing throughout was pretty darn excellent
Anyone see how he was cleaning that anchor, with one draw on his loop.
@MrBevolatte88 at 4:42 he is at the top and cleaning the route (taking the gear off the anchors and lowering from the rings.) Non-professionals will usually attach themselves to both bolts using locking carabiners. He just has a wire gate draw on one bolt. Its just not redundant and less safe but he is AH so....
It's possible he's clipped a bight to his harness and is thus still on belay while he threads the anchor. But yeah, he's Alex Honnold, so maybe not.
Love the Bear Grylls comment.
I’ve been to a similar place in Wales when I was younger.. the slate of was really fun. Helped me get to grips a bit with my fear of heights.
The slate was mesmerising in the haze of the welsh rain
Hazel Findlay is so gorgeous.
Those two should do one more climb together . The climb into bed
@@paysonfox88 rumor has it they already did back then. Now he has a steady gf
Mrembo Mweusi that was just rumour. I wouldn’t blame either if they did as they are super cute together, but it’s always come across as a close friendship to me. Maybe I’m just bad at reading body language.
'probably a better climber than burr grills'.................................Pure gold :)
No helmet? Even I wear one, albeit a builders helmet gaffer taped under my chin.
If I bumped into Alex Honnold in the local spar or co op I’d drop dead
and none of them wearing a helmet. I went climbing in uk outdoors three times, always loose stone a people breaking holdsin every route. Once I even had a stone falling in my head when I was just arrive, 5 meters away from the wall. Helmet was on the moment I left the parking. After me everyone started to pull their helmets out of the bag. From 20 people let's say only five had their helmets on. I will never understand this necessity they have in Uk of exposing your self anyhow.
I love Alex, so brutally honest. No one loves us Welsh, but that's ok.
The sheep do JKS
The best rock climber that mankind has ever seen. Jonny Dawes was awesome in his day. Top guy. I’ve an award he presented me for winning an RNRM indoor climbing comp in Sheffield.
switch on the subtitles though.....boy he mumbles
It's funny, now when I search for climbing clips I automatically skip the ones that don't have "Alex Honnold" in the title lol. its innate.
I still do it "To this day"...😂🤣
I can't even describe the level of cringe I felt reading this comment
Comes the Dervish. Brilliant. And Last Tango in Paris to the right. Gotta love Vivian Quarry .... xx
Alex Honnald really sucks at belaying
Great video of great climbers by a great organisation. I hope the BMC get Alex over to the UK again one day!
And climbing on the Cuillins of Skye.
He sounds like a patronising snob to me
The smallest mountain ever he thinks 😅
Probably the highest like to dislike ratio I've ever seen. Excellent video.
This is brilliant, and just up the ride from me. Al
Wow mae'n ardal hynod o brydferth mae rhaid gweud. Gobitho naeth e joio dod i Gymru.
surely he is joking about Bear Grylls?
Ever climb cracks on volcanic glass schist? There's a glass crag in downtown san francisco's mission... go find the slipperiest rock in amerikka! hells yeah!
Who’s Bear Grylls???
He snagged a good one. Slow and steady wins the race.
More Hazel please!
I live in Wales and very close to llanberis and I climb it often
he has no fear & thts called supernatural capability
From Wales, thanks for visiting!
Awesome video! Thank you.
Was the bear grylls comment a joke
Better climber then bears grylls? Does he climb
I Still going through from bikini bottom
2:55 looks absolutely brutal
Wow I didn't even realize it till Johnny mentioned bolting one of those routes when Honnold was only a foot tall in '85, but I'm just shy of 2 months older than Honnold.
He meant he bolted it when the tree was a foot high.
"Probably better at climbing than Bear Grylls even"
Who is Bear Grylls?
Welsh Slate of Mind
Alex is “A giant gecko “! lol
Bear Grylls is nothing compared to Alex when climbing
He was joking haha
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It's sooo funny, that girl only smiles when your asking her questions lol. When Alex is talking she is somewhere else lmao
Typical Bird.
Why does she have to be smiling all the time ? And she laughs plenty in this what your problem
Chiefs Kingdom that’s what most people do when they are on camera or in a group conversation. It’s only actors that maintain a certain character 100% of the time. I find Hazel’s response much more natural. Her expression changes because she’s paying attention to what’s being said without intruding on the other person’s conversation. You’ll see her interject at various points during the interview and her face goes from straight to smiling as she does so.
Awesome
I wonder why the doubled-up protection bolts seen in a few of the frames. Seems weird. Very nice short video.
he must not have trusted it. Never know how long that stuff's been up there or whatnot, best to limit the amount of mystery gear if possible imho.
He was at the top, or end, of the route- at the final anchor. Since he will be relying on only those bolts to make his way back down the route (rappelling or being lowered), they are doubled up for redundancy.
Lower offs
Whether they're ex-lovers or just platonic friends, Hazel and Alex have shared-in and been on some pretty deep excursions together: Eurkea Wall, the NAT GEO thing where they went to some fjord off the coast of Africa, and this. If anything, they have a deep bond in friendship revolving around this art-form called climbing which in many ways could lead into a kind of deep-seated lovey-dovey relationship down the line as the cumulative emotions and memories would be too great to ignore.
Climbing relationships can go really deep. The trust level is intense, you see each other at your best and your worst, and it can take years to find the right person and longer to merge your skills into a strong partnership. I've climbed with partners male and female, and the connection is the same. Sometimes it turns into more than that, but really, it doesn't *need* to. One female partner said our relationship had everything but the sex, and we both agreed sex would just complicate what was a perfectly good thing. You can get laid anywhere; good climbing partners are rare. :)
theyre both balck diamond athletes and La sportiva athletes and Im pretty sure North Face aswell. It would be for media purposes but they probably also have a good a friendship evolving around climbing
Hi Robert, do excuse the late reply, must've slipped through the cracks, thanks for the thoughtful and insightful reply! That is a very interesting on what you described as the levels of intensity that can develop in climbing partnerships.I'm not a climber, though it doesn't take much for the imagination to simulate an idea of what it might be like when you've got 4K/ HD video coverage shadowing these incredible athletes as they demonstrate such prolific feats of human endurance and precision. I can only assume that the closest similar type of partnership in comparison, would be soldiers, like in war, soldier's are presented with life and death situations that when survived in a mission, it bonds them for life.
With something like climbing or even free-climbing where it's voluntary, considered a sporting activity, every step, every hook point, you're presented with something that could be life threatening, where your partner may be the only option to bail you out. That's intense! So I totally get where you're coming from when there is an agreed upon act of omitting sex, as it could interfere with the constant balance in your state of mind (even off the mountain) and thus, maintaining an equilirbrium of your consciousness in order to keep consistent and on top of your game.
Thanks Luke, I would have to wholly agree with you. They make great ambassadors for the sport. I'm guessing, Black diamond is about as high as you can go in ranking! Pun intended.
Yeah, pretty sure they've 'gone deep'... ;-)
0:46 👌🏻
man's packing heat
Great climbers, all terrible belayer’s
You're totally right, even in Free Solo, you can see people constantly letting go of the break hand, what the fuck is up with that? The arrogant assumption that 'oh, my climbing partner won't fall, it's fine'?
What I want to know, is how do those climbers get back down?
duh, the elevator.
@@ronyeahright9536 Duh yourself! I'm talking BESIDES rappelling, hiking down the back side of a moutnain to where a heli can pick them up, or falling down! (They only carry ropes so long, pal, max 1k'!) So can YOU ANSWER the question? No, we doubt you can! (I found out there are several ways, including down-climbing).
@@MJLeger-yj1ww ....if you "found out there are several ways", what makes you think everyone else doesn't know? Do you think you are the only one skilled enough to use this new invention called "Google"?
@@ronyeahright9536 Certainly not, (sardonic comments will get you nowhere) but you'd be surprised at how many people are too lazy to research several sites to get a broad enough answer to learn sufficiently! (Incidentally, there are MANY search sites besides Google, my friend, you'll learn that as you grow up and good luck with that!) Good day, we're off this site now. More interesting things to pursue!
They never come down. They keep climbing up
Hazel can get it
Vance Kaetsu who ever her boyfriend is he’s a lucky, lucky man. She’s intelligent, articulate, well educated and totally cute to boot. There’s so few women like that.
She's really cute!!!!
Alex is extremely extremely calculated and professional. Bear is more seat of the pants crazy. "This should hold me just fine." Either one would be IMPOSSIBLE for most anyone to follow, when they do their own thing at their own level of ability. Guess that`s why they are famous.
Alex’s reaction after he said “ like Yosemite, for sure “
Mimed wow under is breath, couldn’t work out if that was coz he was tired or just tired of blowing smoke up there arses
I free soloed my couch while watching this. Easy work. 😁
Shhhh I’m gonna say it...I think he’s smitten!
been there done that got the promotion
wait has alex got a rope here??
She doesn't look that happy in this vid
Maybe she is tired from climbing and belaying all day . She also laughs plenty . what the heck .
adam crosland really? I just don’t see it. They both look knackered at the end of the video, as you should do after climbing all day.
are they a couple??
Doubtful. Just a platonic relationship built out of trusting their lives to each other. I have the same thing with my regular climbing partner. I could never date her due to ideological differences (shes dating another guy that we climb with regularly) but we get on rock and things just click with us. We know when to push each other and we know when to back off and let the other regain their headspace or just when to just lower the other to the ground. We know each other's idiosyncrasies with climbing too. I think it has something to do with the fact that I was her first trad lead belay and she was mine (both about 6 months apart, with me being the latter).
No.
A bit strange seeing Alex climbing with ropes. But guess Slate is one of the harder rocks formations to climb. Both climbers are awesome but Alex is a class of his own..Johnny is a good climber too..but defo not in the same class as Hazel and Alex.
I think when Johnny was on form he was a better climber than both - www.planetmountain.com/en/news/climbing/johnny-dawes-slate-masterpiece-repeated-after-28-years.html
SHE IS SUPER CUTE, VERY PRETTY FACE
PLS SHOW BOB AND VEGANA
Does anyone know the name of the route alex is on at 1:52? The dead straight crack...
Comes The Dervish
Cheers!