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What it feels like to be on a sharp end
live a lot of that goes

on up there in your head.

That's always been the scariest part in climbing
right before you're going to fall

How far can you push yourself.
Knowing that if you slip. You're sure you.

I figured well this just must be what
separates the boys and that's when

I went home a they're going to fall.

You know when you're out there
on the sharp things when you done wrong.

You know I'm going to be able push it that long
at some point it is going to have that man

and you have to save yourself.

I could die today. You have to be out there
on the lunatic fringe of the theater.

We live in a world of tightly organized safety
and yet there are those among us

who seek out on the fringe of

our society out there in the hills.

There's mutant strain. Of fear tolerant
individuals in open rebelion against the laws.

See for generations. They've been laying it out
on the line risking it all for moment glory

On the sharp end

to dokument this trival danger seekers
will join up with the boldest among them

on their quest for thrills around the world

but with our journey begins in the climbing
mecca of Boulder Colorado.

There's tradition of hard scary climbing that has been
flourishing here since the nine hundred seventies.

When lines were established in a way
that minimizes taxes and guaranteed venture

in the years since protection was allowed timers to focus
on pure difficulty but today a group of young guns

is bringing back the bold traditional methods
for going the safety of bolts

and placing their own gear on an altar
a heart was naturally technical means

there is a movement toward seeing what you can do
on here searching out the lines that we can find

that are just as hard as
you are for find but track out

the flu this gay out and that's
what inspired the WHO

is what are her skirt with
this bucket going for it

That's what is it going to be and that's something
awesome. I'm about to enter and

and place in here as this access.

Mental challenge you place
a piece of the gear

and thinking about what's going
to happen when you fall

and you just told the convention
itself and the gears get in that you don't have

worry you can just focus

on mastering the art of natural protection
has allowed folders elite few to establish

groundbreaking first a sense

and to push traditional climbing to a whole
new level of difficulty

if you're out there and you have to rely
on you climbing ability

and your competence to get
you through the week

the trends of just such and such

well Boulder's new generation
is redefining of the possibilities

of hard trade climbing perhaps nobody lays it
out on the line more often than

Eldorado resident Hank Kaylor puts it right.

My head was a rebel my dog
just shatterred all over.

Hank is among the boldest climbers in
Eldorado Canyon

good times and olderly living in a trailer
with mastiff that barfs everywhere

at least it's not a big turd.

He's got a reputation for risky capers
and self-inflicted injuries.

I grew up playing hard, playing rough but
hanging out with the wrong crowd

After thirty nine years of broken limbs
like my leg, head injuries

call the horseshoe procedure and
brushes with the law

and cufled me to a gurney naked and
stuck two hundred fifty stitches in my body with pain.

He's still making headlines
he's jumping off of an.

The Suites Hotel and Denver
my chute opened backwards

and I barely had time to go well and then

I'm like white washed in
blood sitting the next to a bad

Go back inside the building it was just
the biggest mind fuck I could imagine

Like you're going to be on the news
these days.

Hank's been hanging with his bros you know
the canyon climbing so-called death rates.

I got nothing better to do after or now
might as well go get scared a lion.

If you blow any of the hard moves here belayer
better be yanking some slack up

or you're going to hit the ground shattering
everything from the waist down

the soul has to be read what
it's when you can focus the most

are good being dangerous is
when I'm most comfortable.

You know once a decade it blows up in my face
but other mad man although the consequence is

it keeps. Daddy happy keeps me sane.

I might be a funny personality but you know
you just can't compete with like Matt Siegel

and these guys there doing what I'm doing

but like a number grade herder twenty
four year old Matt Siegel

is a staunch believer in using natural pro
no matter how hard the Klein

why do this instead of thirteen
it's work or this is way more bitching

and perhaps no root in an area upholds
trad style in the face of difficulty more

than must have been high a notorious
x-rated line in Eldorado Canyon

creek the routes entire five thirteen crux is
protected by a single half inch knife blade

could be futher difficult it's probably the scariest
of all the harder trike on the boulder area

if the knife blade rips we're probably
going to get really, really hurt

it's in secure slapping up this refrigerator
block deficit Harry

right here you're like the most run out
from the pen and you get to place a small stopper

but you have to deal with the mental aspect
of being on lead

it's just all about kind of keeping your shit together
not letting you wheel spin too much you're up

there like a purple c three size piece

While I have to do is like one move

was I take the whip or is totally
spooked just like there me off

i say quiet like is it really worth it's you know
it's definitely a question that comes up

but most parents try to stay focused
and not even think about.

time back in and did it that day

afterwards the were
wories definitely worth it

The sharp end has no strict definition.

Literally it's the end of the climbing
rope where the leader ties in

but there many styles of climbing out there and
lots of weys to get your danger fix

and for some people the sharp end is found
when you leave the rope on the ground

high ball ball here a basically Boulder and stuff
that really ought out Bolton

that seems like a fine way to get
yourself looking for money.

We're going to search for young Lisa Rands
as reigning queen of high ball bowler.

I've always been attracted to
I Are very bold or problems

she's living proof that the danger
is not just do you think

women realize we can go out there and have just
as much fun as the boys are

I really like to put myself out there on the line
like one zero thirty feet off the ground

You really have to focus to relax yourself.

I feel I'm trying to push myself physically
and mentally when it comes to my climbing

about seven years ago I moved to Bishop to really
try to focus on doing higher hard all their problems

I live here with my husband wells bishop
has always been a center of high ball bouldering

has always been a place where the
boulders are marginalized

climbing for me is just a yoyful thing
to do and it's very personal thing

I don't climb for anybody else
I climb for my own pleasure.

But I feel like for Lisa.
It's more then enough for her

she's really driven to be
the best It would wash and

sometimes you're pulling
so hard you do movements but virtually

When you're high off the ground

You have to slip your mind from
this raw power to very calm state

So I spent the last few years really
focusing on learning to control my mind

A mission I've had for a while has been
to climb the side of tired eyes

overhanging Arad's

and it continues while into
the no fault zone

it was one of those lines of everybody
knew about everybody took a look at

everybody went home thinking
my gosh no way

It's really begging really hard and very intimidating.
You have to push it off the groung.

It' pretty amazing how tall the thing is who

As you get higher off the ground
that hold a sort of disappear

That's almost anything are you doing one right

Their feet are probably twenty
five feet off the ground

and the matter how much stone you haven't
or you get hurt your whole body compresses

that was an eye opener
and made me realize

you can't follow any higher carry
really going to get hurt

Early I wanted a few days before going back
and I kept beating myself up over the fact

that I wouldn't commit.

I must have climbed the side of Paradise
in my sleep five hundred times

Even now it is crying for me watch her climb
some of the things she's done

I do have total confidence if I think she' going
to do it so she' going to do it.

I knew what to do.

I simply had been mentally committed to go for it
give it one hundred percent

I was Trichy of that mind
control to almost lose it

And instead you just from down hundred
percent and focus on the task at hand

Our journey among the bold keeps us
on the move from Colorado to California

to the high Himalayas

chiffon fortress
right there it's really really want to climb it

Oh man across the rivers of target market
like us Chinese just let

me get across this river herself

The big mountains
you may have to tie into the sharp end

before you even get the climb

it's going to go to you know good
God it's Ok Ok Yes

I'm Johny Stump on there
you go !

Alpine climbing is lifestyle and Johny college
and living the dream travelling the world

and making full commitment alpine style a sense
dummies like Randy Macho, man Savage as well fine fine

You know there are times that it was
when you were going to the summit right now

This is like whoa

These are the most a guy House on Highland
for sure big mission big adventures

remote regions that have seen too much
was definitely the most fun part of

Johny's approach is faster than light carrying
the bare minimum of gear

So you can get to the summit in a single
continuous push to have two ropes

and one pack maybe nobody here and
I don't have a headlamp because I dropped it

We're going to talk about the car was here
We were not going to need those little plants here

But alpine style a leave you seriously exposed

you really not having that
much fun what happened

you know it's not like
it's difficult to keep chickens

right out of this problem don't like

You want to do it first try to know

that I was going to do it over to
the surface third day

third day up on the mountain my kid
just got done with the really wet water flow

It should look through endless

the cold now my god can laugh off
some pretty crazy situations

and not super important in the big nominees
should stick to the rock club

He's funny motherfucker

for younger kids because this stuff

There's a big chance of failure
on a lot musician

that makes it all the more fun
to do sixteen yet

she fought for truce

Johny in Miko's search for alpine first
ascends is worldwide

wherever Steve unclimbed terrain can be found

So we're here in Shawnee now

it's the spring time

we came here to climb ice rock
my north face is are in great shape right now

I've never been a salmon before and was
completely blown away by the scale

on the access to some of the most amazing
alpine climbing in the world

It's a really funky form of
climbing snow over granite

pretty floppy stuff

climbing monkey here it snowed
rotten ice these mix conditions

That so hard to manage

John you know that stuff
really does pretty cool

Yeah

Now if the tradition of alpine risk taking
runs deep in the French Alps

and generations of climbers have
conquered lines here

or died trying

to put a new route up here is pretty
much impossible all the plums have been picked

the one place that might have potential
is the west face of the Drew because

about half of the whole entire mountain
fell off ten years ago

It has this really ominous White Rock scar
and everyone in town is like you're crazy

guys can go up there

but we went up there

you know possibly Colorado cowboy
style with on little pack

and just start climbing and starting out
on some really cool mixed terrain up these

Rock Honors with some ice
in the back of them

screaming Garvey's of my hand

Through all that and then
it turned into a rock

We got about halfway or so up the wall
and a big storm came in crossing

the whole face and ice

We spent the night on a small
little perch up there

hunkered in for a pretty
uncomfortable night

Considering the storm's going to build you
definitely don't want to be up in that situation

for too long with the limited equipment

cool night appear this tiny little snow ledge

your only choice is to go down
there just at the base of the wall

Grew out the last days of
the Juden kill us that's great

sitting there like chucking our gear off super
psyched and all of sudden you're this crack behind us

and these two if you double the size blocks
of lies are coming down

and I just saw Mike his heels get clipped
by the edge of one of these big chunks of ice

the whole pretty big with
just one hand for a lie

it gives me pause once in while
thinking about the close calls

definitely is a moment of reflection and just you
know how fragile we are in the alpine enviroment

I've had friends and partners who paid
the ultimate price for climbing in the big nominees

So if the price of failure
so high why take the risk ?

I don't know how to answer
the question of why I do this

I don't know but I know there's really
an answer it's just because people question.

It's a question that anyone who pushes
the limits of risk will ultimately face

another pathology and addiction

Perhaps there's glitch in my brain

I battle with that a lot
of like what do you do

There's no answer to why we're up there
why we're in no risking ourselves

and you know up in mountains just on
the mountain having a good time

for as long as people have been
tying into sharp end

The reason has been elusive

Sir Edmund Hillary said he climbed for the hell of it
and old George Mallory his answer was

Because it's they're looking for answers
in the pages of climbing history

we come upon a surprising chapter
over one hundred years ago

Deep in the sandstone towers scattered across
the border of Germany and the Czech Republic

a cult of danger climbing heroes unlike
anything the world had ever seen

visitors to this land will find that among
a ragged band of beer drinking former commies

the traditional hard scary climbing still got

we got a group of american
CAD climbers who come over here

and here to sample the ultimate
trad climbing

We have heard the this is very bold climbing
but really we have no clue what to expect

our travelers were lucky enough
to be guided by legendary German climber

band Arnold

My name is Bernd Arnold

I am 61 years old

Climbing is a way of life for me

I was born among these spires

they are my habitat

The first day Bernd decides he's going to
introduce us to the climbing with a group free so

he suggested taking all of our shoes off
so we could feel the grains of sand on our feet

before this getting used to the rock and
feeling free scrambling about

I didn't really realize it until I got here but this was
pretty much the birth of modern free climbing

in the late eighteen hundreds already people
were starting to do gnarly technical free climbs

on these towers

and back in the sixty's and seventy's
Bernd Arnold

He was revolutionizing
free climbing as we know it

By the mid '60s

I had climbed all the hard routes

and I began to establish new ones

These were by far the hardest and
scariest climbs in the world at the time

Arnold's high standards became a legacy

For those who followed

Thirty years ago, when I started climbing

was the goal of climber to make

some route which is so bad protected

make very hard to repeat

make first bold 20-30 meters over the ground

Not only hard climbing

but also hard mentally

The local rules passed down over generations
to preserve the rock are fairly simple

First of all you can't use chalk which marks up
the cliffs and unlike everywhere else in the world

You can't protect the cracks
with metal gear like nuts or cams

So when faced with a typically massive run out
between bolts what you're left with

are little pieces of rope
tied into nuts

I like climbing with these knots for you it must be
hard to belief that the knot will hold you

I think it might be for you real scary

If you climb some route if you fall
you can become legend

Or I go in hospital with broken leg
which is funny sometimes

You go on the sharp end
make your knots ready and start climbing

It's a whole new mind game sure

the classic crack climbs are parallel sided
and you can't get any here at all

every once in while you come to a spot that
has a constriction where you would pull up

what you hope is the right size and pot it there
and can't really tell if they're going to bat it

can't believe I usually just yank on
I'm a whole bunch

this place is definitely
the scariest place I claim

they are when you get out on
the faces and there's no chalk

Yeah you don't have a clue where you're going
all of the talismans that you have against the danger

of climbing are kind of taken away from you
and you're left with just you

Who is just the beginning from the ball
gets to your feet

you go and you go and you go home
and you go before you get another piece of gear

I thought I was going to fall like
a hundred feet out of me

He pointed scary
Probably one of the best oitches a rock climbing

I've ever done little climbs here
and definitely language and quests

they're great a year ago and I'm going to go on
and like no charge, no nothing

It's pretty rad when you do I wish
every place in the world was like this

Hell no. it's really quite adventures

You know where you're going
at the time you soloing

because it's superman out

They've been trying to steal his germ from
knowing he's trying to maintain a song play

and even Alex is probably the best climber
here but the first thing he asked

Ben was what's the easiest car in here
and I went to break my legs a going to do anything

that's too dangerous and this was
supposed not something

that's on our clothes not
my opinion the final is that he's the best bald

climberb in the world right now
cool not

it's good to see him get a little scared of joke
sketchy sketchy face Kline's slinging a little tread through

running it out four fifty between ring bolts

it's kind of mind blowing each show up here
and you can even believe

that these guys develop the style of climbing
you know your car like that at guys

like this is dangerous

it's just the craziest climbing
I've ever seen a major climbs to

the homeys here in Eastern Europe
we met a lot of climbers on this trip and

one of them that stick
out the most is Robert

I'm Robert Leistner

I found climbing as the sport of my life

it's super crazy like no chalk five fourteen
is a desperate

it is one of the longest difficult routes here
the rings are five metres to another

After a really hard situation
you relax and just fly

Do you like that ?
I like that. Yes

he is very similar to us in the aspect that
he really is psyched on pushing the difficulty barrier

by keeping style and ethics in mind

it is also possible to climb very hard here

without chalk

Robert is brad going for a round up establishing
five fourteen's with no chop

that's cutting edge new
school climbing fo sure

by the second week of their trip the Americans
were hungry to make their mark on the local scene

Yeah direct their Pierrette fiasco

so see the one of climb Arad most
beatiful Arad's I've ever seen

and then these Germans been climbing
with started talking about how dangerous it was

possible to do you fall

you hit the ground you think
it could be I was psyched

until I think it would be the day that
the Germans are psychotics the most dangerous

most dangerous crazy

and was going on to crime we don't want
to die you want to have fun.

You know it's fucking crowded it's one
of the scariest part here they said to me that

I think we should do it

Alex start egging him o to do it whole
no big deal approach declining

it's like nothing is a big deal to him

you should to discovery this mountain

he just wanted to see me like how some success
on this really scary one out climb but

when they got inside his head started thinking
maybe you shouldn't do it

psyched him out

into the hundreds but what
really got me on site

The other night was a girl with a here for
an hour diary but I was sketchy so scary an so hard

an so like Muslims go there

Find out we should go do it then and there you
hear on this just like I get older

you know like sector took one for the team
will see I was going to get you by break my legs

and better destroy all that's
what I think

it's real like that Alex hot just shot it all
and started slowly appear there

yes if an intense as like
everybody was kind of on edge

she's really sandy

He has attained it for a good ten minutes
on these sloping for going to read teachers

just looking at potentially like a ninety foot
fail that could've been really terrible

so it was a full free solo head space

the slow controlled steady as she goes
taking your time

watching Alex was pretty inspiring because
he just he kept it together so well

even when he was so far above his career
that he would have fallen pretty much

almost to the ground

So that's pushing a pretty close to
a mammoth foot on her breaking and

it looks super super exciting

I don't think it's a pitch that I want to lead

Oh excess in a different headspace
his ability to stay calm

and not get all the way to the top

Yeah Alex gets respect and
I think he's about asking

here

Don't that to me a little jealous is kind
of the superhero I always wisched I was

but as Clint Eastwood said
a man's got no limitations

in the Czech

big tradition

all the nation

it's we drink a beer a lot

I don't mean like a lot a lot but...

8 - 10 beers every day is standard

it's ten in the morning we were
already drinking people are about tower jumping

Here in Czech

doing jumping between towers

just because you want move

from one tower to other

but then come the idea, okay

we make from this some kind of sport

but the jump is always very danger

always is broken leg

or broken head, so

I don't know it's good idea

come to here and

make a hard, hard jump

I have a link with one of the most
psych tower jumpers here in the Czech

jumping is my life

Yes I'm going to be following Peter
around a few jumps here

so we'll see how it goes

To beer and women

All right here we go

I didn't break my ankle suite

This one's is called Broken bones which
isn't exactly the most encouraging name

ouch
no !

not bad ?

Dude don't do that one

Okay c'mon

I think I can jump from down here

Doing these insane jumps between towers

It's a really unique and fun
climbing culture here

It's unlike anything I've ever experienced

it's no broken it's good

These guys props to make it so scary
and dangerous

and going for it can take

There's plenty of places to go
climbing in the world

This definitely isn't one of them

the amazing thing I think about the serious

one to talk about here in this
wide open expanse

for me it's been really inspiring

a lot of respect for all the people that
I've met in the Czech Republic

and their strong will the fall of their own
tradition something that no one else in the world

Here are climbers and the people who

who liked the area here

and climbed here

and who died

Unfortunally my cousin

Martinyenka...

that's really meaningful to travel halfway around
the world and have a common ground of climbing

The world is good

In climbing, your motivation changes with age

These days, I am motivated to make

even the hard things easy and light

The lightness is what I enjoy the most

I have broken a few bones

but I always come back

Our visit to Eastern Europe confirms that the history
of the sharpened is litered with broken bones

but it's still not exactly clear why someone
would go in for that kind of ride

Maybe it's time to turn our gaze from
the past to the here and now

so if Eastern Europe is the cradle
of sharpened climbing

then it's modern day providing ground is
Yosemite Valley for the past fifty years

Semi the climbers have been defining
the standard for big wall climbing

and that standard remains
at the cutting edge

Much thanks to one man

Hi, I'm Ammon McNeily

Ammon McNeally is probably the most

accomplished big wall climber
in the world right now

things that I'm pretty good
hearted for some reason

If you're on a hard hit You'll get
a series of body weight placement

So it can hold your body weight but
if you fall on it's generated

Enough force to rip it out of the wall climbing
one of the sports where it's so scary

because you're standing
on stuff that is just terrible

you're kind of in this perpetual state
of is this going to hold am I going to take a big fall

and Amman just doesn't
seem to worry about that

Yeah

shit yeah

fuch you

you know everyone in your family
has a nickname in Amman is El Cap pirate

I guess I'm this piratical in my nature
I got a rough look about me

he just kind of and bodies going hard
having finding the yellow bag

We're almost to the golden up all taking
like a pirate for three or four days

when partners like Buck up and
we're done with the pirate allready

are you mate he

will have to keelhaul you for that
he is taking the captain by storm

and finding just the craziest deepest lines
and doing whatever it takes to get through

a lot of times on these books
over the edge of the rock

He likes to get through this section and I try
to go through it and test my pieces

and get up on it don't think about it
to get to the better place

part of the drill is because you know

Yeah through the hard core of the real deal
I could get fucked up I could get hurt right here

I don't care

stop what was

being up there you know you can
get to place where

few people travel to amazing
perspective on life

Yeah make sure very love like

yeah scaring the hell out of youself

I was photographing on McNealy he was
climbing on climb called surgeon general

third solo thing of surgeon
general took this nasty fall

and I bang my head really
good cracked my helmet

Tom saw me through his telescope

I heard the screem he was hanging
from end of the rope sort of upside down

motionless with him arms strong out and
I just did I couldn't believe it

pulled my helmet off it was
kind of some white looking stuff

I shook it off you know sat on that lead for
about thirty minutes helicopter

unit up come in trying to rescue me

And of course I was having
none of it to me

it's all good
if I fall I can live with that

but if I fail I'm going to get
myself out of the head

I'm going to like and they're down there
watching me i think i'm just going have to get back

up there and start climbing

and maybe they'll go away and sure enough
were all going to die of these

you know it's matter of time

I would rather live forty years of excitement
and fun and exhilarating and just full volume of the

I did eighty years of la li la you know boring

Yeah man why not get out there and it was pretty
good or you know nanny

The primordial fear of falling has apparently
lost its impact on some people

So where do they go next to
find the fear object lesson

Chris McNamara

He's of man He's a little out there like me

Chris Mack is a veteran wall climber
who is looking for the next big wall

he found it on the way down

I started climbing big walls when I was fourteen
and I saw a base jumper go by me while I was on

Cape town

in my mind I always thought ok
and then one day I'm going to do

I'm be careful man your base jumping

I kind of got through the learning curve
but I think I was sort of lucky

Don't this ? No no don't do that
you're spinning it the wrong way

when it comes back dive over the top
and just do a street dive like on your head

yet only slightly are handy for the first job
is pretty much impossible so

Chris Mack is an interesting jump You definitely
plan pretty crazy especially in the begining an all

the people saw the waning him and you're
like hey dude it's you know I'm going to be able to push it out

I wasn't planning to open there

Now he's a pretty experienced of flying

sorry about that

Yeah it's a really expensive i know

I'm originally from Europe and it's great
to come back and get to fly all this class

Europe's the best place to
base jump in the world

because the let you jump off pretty much
anything you want to some of largest cliffs

with big big jumps

in your wing suit base
jumping at first you're falling getting that

feeling of dead air your stomach falls out
that last moment you're where like what did I used to you

but then within only three or four seconds
you're actually moving forward really fast

you feel the air

Almost like you're flying forward
a hundred miles an hour

But you're

kind of the whole deal is that you get
this freedom to go wherever you want to go

explore a new part of the wall

you came for some features get real close
and then along the surface

you really only feel

Steve when there's something relative to you

each time you why next year while
the next jump you want to go maybe even closer

and you get into a limit at some point realize
thet you know you don't want to go through clothes

and see this Bush coming out like you want
to go fly close to that a then as I got closer

and closer I went to wait maybe
I'm flying a little too close

I don't know maybe maybe
as a foot or two above it

You have like a tell you know wind gust or
you make a terrible mistake you can be in that

but just once you get to the summit

There's definitely a bit of an edge
in the air

over that area like a couple hundred feet

and then you have really hard right

in the end the most important
thing is to be relaxed

and you just breathe and chill

But I really want to you know I have had you know
a pretty bad experience base jumping where I was

jumping with someone who died

That definitely made me rethink the whole sport

I'm never base jumping any more
unless I really think it's worth

And I think it's safe because
there's nothing worth dying for

and never set out to
you will push it too hard

You're only doing it if you feel in control

but you just have those flights
were just everything clicks

and it feels really good and and
you just to go for it

as we see base jumping is kind of
the coolest thing I've ever done yet

So when you have a really good
flight it is about as good as it gets

Chris Mack may be
on to something here

that moment out there on the edge
where our fear and confidence

collide

and evolve the style of climbing

may be the best way to get to that place

It's free soloing

don't no time going no main

to be able to free solo something

that is an expression of being so in control that
you know you're going to be able to do it without falling

there's a pretty strong mental dialogue and
pretty strong engagement with fear

time to say well

it's hard to push past that I fear

it's something that for me takes a lot of fire
a lot of preparation

and I don't have to be paralyzed by fear
I can just go do it

no matter what the discipline

Steph Davis is always pushing her limits

There are certain times when
I want to do the hardest thing I can

but if I'm climbing with a rope I'm usually
thinking about difficulty

to push myself to the point of failing

on my farm crying my hardest you know
there's going to be a lot of times you're sort out of

control and you know that can be
really dealing with the same time

I want to sense of nastyily
to be really really solid

with three solo climbing and it's about raising
the level of which I feel solid

raising the level of rope less climbing has led
Steph to her most committing route yet

the thousand foot per vertical sanctuary on
the legendary long speak diamond

when I was younger climbing up here all the time
it was like this humongous dream of mine the

diamond but if I'm going to go up there
and do that or it's death consequences

I have to figure out how to have the right
mindset and what that means to me

and I'm going to really learn something

The climbing is pretty
steep vertical or overhanging

if you fell off you go down about a thousand feet

the correct section is a good handfull of moves

that you have to kind of maintain there out
there it is a little steep person

you're not totally on your feet

It's a little more strenuous

I'm just looking at the rock thinking
here a lack of good feelings

To me is soloing something like best
It's really about being a fireman

or there's a lot of risk and controlling yourself

and controlling yourself
you're going to be safe

That' the chalenge

As the years go by the standards that define
the cutting edge get pushed futher and futher

and we're already catching glimpses of the future

when you can free solo beyond the realm of control
to the point the following

That's always been the scariest part in climbing
is falling right before you're going to fall

but I thought about free soloing
I think about that moment over and over again

when I would detach from
the rock and that would be it

It would be my death

having a basic concept like the all vs all timid idea

when I saw the ring on I know there is more
after that point where I detach from the rock

thickening clouds on the Eiger
make a safe space X

it impossible forcing Dean
to reverse back down climb

but even getting to that moment
where the fall potential is real

and the only protection is a six pound bass parachute
has been the culmination of many disciplines

like while climbing

free soloing

high lining

then base jumping

which lead to the baseline

the idea that I once had
that falling I was dead

now falling is controlled and that's
a great thing to be able to change

you know instead of dying I'm flying

for me a big doors opened and I'm seen
the world now through different eyes

for Dean the bass solo
is the next logical step

but the concept remains relatively untested

Dean has taken the fall on other cliffs

But the north face of the Eiger
with thousands of feet of Alpine limestone

is unpredictable

and in this point
There's still a lot of uncertainly

about what happens when I fall

really aware of the exposure

You know an then I break through into the calm
and focused heightened awareness that attracts me

just huge
into the texture of the rock

and my contact and still pratty
much Haagen onto the saltwater

Thing that I'm getting
out of pushing my limits is

turn impossible to possible I'd turn something
I haven't doner to some clean undoing

But the possibilities of what
we're capable of doing

We believe in it is the most compelling thing
I can think of

our exploration into this world of high
adventure has come to an end

but only for now because there will always
be people out there reaching for the next

big challenge on the sharp end

that case has no right to protection
a person not on the outside mind

sharp end it's
where you feel confident and you feel that

you're in your element so you can kind of
push yourself to the most challenging

and the most intense situation

when you were standpoint it seems
like you want you know happen all those things

to the joy of actually falling apart

you get to the top and
you get stand in your eyes

and you're all bloody and barely
friggin able to breathe but your sight

you know your sight because you pull it off

feels like you're doing something crowd

it feels like to accomplish something
for yourself by being up there

and going to use it then through the floor
and feel it fees you from the whole doubt

in your system if you
keep just go for

it that's what it is it's just going forward

That's the sharp end

on the sharp end you need a strong spirit

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