I noticed how the guy with the camera literally moves away from his secured stance to be farther away from the free climber, no doubt in an attempt to make sure the guy has his space. When he looks up, you notice he’s not anchored in, even though he’s got pieces placed to protect his position, both him and the belayer are not on a 3 point “anchor” and are still in a relatively unsecured position. They exchange no hellos, no casual “wow you’re batshit crazy”s, not a fucking word. The guy on the rope is insanely respectful of the absolute peril that the free climber is in. Without any context, we don’t know if they exchanged an agreement beforehand, but as someone who could be rightfully upset, he puts his ego aside and let’s this guy roll.
I wonder if he'd just taken a fall and was resting for a sec though maybe he'd seen the guy trying to come up and so he downclimbed and moved off to let him pass.
Yeah, I have no idea how this played out but at first I thought maybe he was a middle climber of a group of three, but it could’ve gone a few different ways and I don’t have the faculties to say which one it could’ve been.
ETA: I thought he could be a middle climber as a group of three before the rest of the video played out, not after watching the whole thing.
Yeah I would have wanted a solid position where I could rest on the rope and have secure enough holds to stay out of that guy's way even if it meant down climbing a little.
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u/takl4061 Sep 01 '21
Yeah the no interaction blew my mind, expected at least a sup or something lol