Fri Night Vid Finding Focus - Life Behind The Lens of a Climbing Photographer
This week's Friday Night Video is a portrait of a prolific climbing photographer from Wedge Climbing. Sam Pratt is well known in both the outdoor and competition scene but if you haven't heard of him, you've likely seen his photos having snappe...
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Nice video...and brought back mixed memories in both extremes from my two visits.
Tell me, do all Americans speak like that, or just sportspeople, or just climbers, or just Californian climbers?
What a nightmare... going on Salathe only to get mixed up with these two dudes.
Does it count as ground up if you work individual pitches on a top rope? Or had they given up on it by then?
It was a ground up attempt but they did not succeed. Reading the Youtube comments, whilst they failed the ground up attempt, the video shows what it is like on the route for normal people and that you can still have loads of fun and challenge yourself.
I think ground up on routes like that just means not abbing in from the top to work high up crux pitches. Aiding a pitch, and then working it to try and free it, is fair game.