This week's Friday Night Video follows Tyler Karow and Peter Foster on a ground-up attempt of Freerider (5.12d) on El Capitan, Yosemite. The pair spend several days on the wall and eventually hit the crux pitches, having to choose between the Boulder Problem (made famous by Alex Honnold) and the Teflon Corner...
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This week's Friday Night Video is about the pure obsession and effort behind a hard trad first ascent by Québécois/Australian Jacques Beaudoin. Mother Earth (8b) is a stunning sixty-degree thin crack climb hidden amongst bushla...
In this week's Friday Night Video, Connor Herson takes on one of the world's hardest crack climbs: Magic Line (8c+), in Yosemite Valley. First established by Ron Kauk in 1996, the climb has seen only five ascents since that time....
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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.