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e mean, So this is actually exactly what you look for is a climate like a big crowd striking feature.
And that is a nice tower.
And you see it in a nice location.
I'm like, Oh, that That does look cool to climb.
Flynn Rider is actually soloing up this tower.
You know, he gets to the top, and you can't.
You can't argue with results.
Oh, wow.
With that cliff, lots of good features.
Looks very easy to climb.
Cody here is employing some very technical climbing skills.
It is exactly what we're looking for for as a climber.
I'm pretty sure I saw him do a hand jam in that crack.
You stick your hand in the crack and you do a jam and you pull off.
I agree.
Actually, I think the filmmakers did a good job on this.
I mean, right being kangaroo, perhaps less realistic than the climbing.
So this is a really proud feature.
These are the types of formations that really inspire climbers and really inspire me.
Wanna is doing great.
She's a champion.
This would be a major climbing destination if it was really so this is definitely an unconventional setting for any kind of rock climbing.
I wouldn't normally recommend Alpine climbing in high heel boots.
Well, and climbing and mittens is a hard no e would suggest crampons and ice axes.
Then you can come admittance because using ice tools and from where she has I would walk around with left and climb that big tongue feature of snow.
I think on a would be a really great Alpine climber if she had the right equipment.
This is an unfortunate situation to find yourself in.
Is a climber curious what's gonna happen when it gets too wide here and they can't span anymore?
Because this is a legitimate full body chimney technique.
I've never seen it done back to back.
Normally you have your own back against one wall and then you're walking your feet up the other one.
But this technique is something that, uh, Alex and I will probably have to look into for a really white chimney.
I actually did a move, not this similar to this in the climate gym yesterday, basically pushing as hard as I can, I can barely reach to a thing I can't quite reach in.
It's like everything straining and like that type of opposition stuff where you're pushing us hard as you can is definitely a part of finding.
Think about climbing next to a waterfall is if they're strong, wind the waterfall from the shift upto hundreds of feet in any direction.
So the little spire that she's on looks like it could just get hammered by that waterfall.
She also seems to be strong enough to cut herself when she's falling and clearly unfazed.
And most importantly, it looks like she's having a great time, you know, in some ways making the film free solo was very simple because it was just documenting.
My normal life is just all the things that I wanted to be doing is a climber and several my best climbing friends where they're documenting the process.
But the reality is that any kind of production is slightly stressful, and I mean, basically, it's just really hard climbing and really hard filmmaking.
And so obviously there was challenges involved.
A lot of the projects and stories that I like to tell revolve around the human spirit and around, uh, human potential.
I think National Geographics Free Solo was really about those things I mean, I guess there's one take away from free solo.
It's It's that, you know, ideally, make clear choices with how you wanna live your life and and then follow.
Follow this sort of, you know, actually execute on on the way you wanna live.
You know, I think Alex really showed there are no shortcuts and that it takes just really, really hard work.
You can achieve anything.
Make sure to check out a National Geographic documentary Films Free Solo now streaming on Disney plus.
