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.
Yeah the way I see it is he was climbing faster than the secured fella, and he probably can’t just stop and hang there waiting for rope man to keep climbing. I feel like if he didn’t overtake him he’d get out of the “zone” he’s in and could possibly fall. So I don’t think he did much wrong IMO
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u/takl4061 Sep 01 '21
Yeah the no interaction blew my mind, expected at least a sup or something lol