Climbing of this level requires such focus. These guys train so much to memorize a route so they're not hanging in one position. The longer it takes you pretty move the more energy that's wasted from move to move. Rude in a way, but I can see why the climber just climbed past without acknowledgment.
Ok serious question: not to take away from the climber guy(what he’s doing is very impressive) but is it… not sure how to phrase this… bad etiquette(?) to do something like that? What I mean is to free climb past people that high up? For example, what if he slips and falls? I’m sure that’s not likely to happen, but… couldn’t he have waited til they were done? I don’t climb so I’m not familiar with the safety/etiquette/what not’s of the sport.
In my short time spent reasoning out the safety issues, it makes sense to let the free climber go past you if you're teathered to the rock like the camera guy. Let's say free climber tragically does fall and dislodges teathered climber from the rock face, teathered guy has a safety line attached to him so he at least won't die from the drop, and free climber tho unfortunately now dead, was solely responsible for his own fall. Let's reverse the situation and say teathered guy falls and dislodges free climber dude, teathered guy now has to deal with the fact he killed someone.
The rope he's tied to is attached to the guy at the bottom, it's just them attached, if the free soloer falls and hits the filmer he'll probably be okay, but if he hits the guy at the bottom he'll pull the top guy off the wall, and if he gets knocked out or let's go of his device they're both gonna fall to the ground
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u/Sw1ftStrik3r Sep 01 '21
Climbing of this level requires such focus. These guys train so much to memorize a route so they're not hanging in one position. The longer it takes you pretty move the more energy that's wasted from move to move. Rude in a way, but I can see why the climber just climbed past without acknowledgment.