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i mean so this is actually exactly what
you look for as a climber like a big
crowd striking feature and that is a
nice tower and you see it in a nice
location i'm like oh that does look cool
to climb
flynn rider is actually soloing up this
tower
you know he gets to the top and you
can't you can't argue with results
oh wow look at that cliff lots of good
features looks very easy to climb
cody here is employing some very
technical climbing skills
this is exactly what we're looking for
for as a climber i'm pretty sure i saw
him do a hand jam in that crack
where you stick your hand in the crack
and you do a jam and you pull off
i agree actually i think the filmmakers
did a good job on this i mean right
being kangaroo perhaps
less realistic than the climbing so this
is a really
proud feature these are the types of
formations that really inspire climbers
and really inspire
me moana's doing great she's a champion
this would be a
major climbing destination
if it was real so this is definitely an
unconventional setting for any kind of
rock climbing
i wouldn't normally recommend alpine
climbing
in high heeled boots oh wow and climbing
in mittens is a hard no no
i would suggest crampons and ice axes
i mean then you can climb with mittens
because you're using ice tools and from
where she is i would walk around with
the left and climb that big
tongue feature of snow i think anna
would be a
really great alpine climber if she had
the right equipment
this is an unfortunate situation to find
yourself in as a climber i'm curious
what's going to happen when it gets too
wide here
and they can't span anymore because this
is a legitimate full body chimney
technique
i've never seen it done back to back
normally
you have your own back against one wall
and then you're walking your feet up the
other one but this technique
is something that uh alex and i will
probably have to look into
for a really wide chimney i actually did
a move
not dissimilar to this in the climate
gym yesterday basically i'm pushing as
hard as i can i can barely reach to a
thing i can't quite reach it and it's
like everything's straining and
like that type of opposition stuff where
you're pushing as hard as you can is
definitely a part of climbing
thing about climbing next to a waterfall
is if there's strong wind the waterfall
can just shift
up to hundreds of feet in any direction
so the little spire that she's on looks
like it could just get hammered by that
waterfall
she also seems to be strong enough to
catch herself
when she's falling and clearly unfazed
and most importantly it looks like she's
having a great time
you know in some ways making the film
free solo was very simple because it was
just documenting my normal life it was
just all the things that i wanted to be
doing as a climber
and uh several my best climbing friends
were there documenting the process
but the reality is that any kind of
production is is slightly stressful and
uh i mean basically it's just really
hard climbing and really hard filmmaking
and so obviously
there was challenges involved a lot of
the projects and stories that i like to
tell
revolve around the human spirit and
around
the human potential i think national
geographic's free solo
uh was really about those
things i mean i i guess if there's one
takeaway from free solo it's
it's that you know ideally you make
clear choices with how you want to live
your life
and and then follow follow this or you
know actually execute on on the way you
want to live
you know i think alex really showed
there are no shortcuts and that it takes
just really really hard work and you can
achieve anything
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