When you climb without a rope, you fall, you die.
This is Wadi Rum. To me it’s one of the
most beautiful places on Earth. When PlayStation challenged me to come up with my own Uncharted
Adventure, I knew this was the place. This is Nathan Drake territory for sure. I’m
Leo Houlding, and I want to be the first person to climb solo The Pillar of Wisdom, here in Wadi Rum.
The route I’m gonna climb is 350 meters
tall, that’s virtually 1000 feet. This is a properly Uncharted adventure. Definitely
one of the biggest challenges of my life. World records can always be broken, but firsts
can never be taken away from you.
Uncharted 4 is a truly epic game, and it inspired
me to come and have my own truly epic adventure. Rope free climbing is an extremely serious
game. It’s the ultimate extreme sport, there’s no way you are gonna survive once you are
more than 25 meters up the route. You’ve got to be extremely cautious, you’ve got
to be in the right kind of head space, you’ve got to be physically fit and you’ve got
to be extremely diligent that you don’t make any mistakes.
You try not to think about the mortal risk.
It's not something I’d like to try without any ropes.
Super sandy. You can’t completely trust many of the holds. Even with a rope it’s dangerous.
Even on easy terrain, you just, you make a
mistake, you get something a bit wrong, you’re not concentrating and you fall off, you just
can’t do that when you are soloing. Originally I wanted to do the climb with no rope whatsoever,
but after inspecting it, it breaks unexpectedly and it’s really unsuitable for soloing on.
I used a rope to belay myself, to pay out rope to myself on a few sections. It’s scary...
Got the fear, got the fear...
There comes a point when you’re out having
an epic where you’ve got no choice but to keep going, you’ve either got to curl up
into a ball and die or you find the energy to keep going.
It’s really exposed, I’m at least 300
meters up. The hardest part is yet to come.
Right now, if anything goes wrong, I’m gonna
die. The very last section, is the hardest section. It’s extremely scary.
**** me that’s unpleasant.
This is by far the hardest part of the climb.
When you get to the top, it’s not an adrenaline
rush, it’s this strange feeling of deep almost spiritual accomplishment.
The view is epic.
Uncharted 4 - only on PlayStation.
I made a promise that I was done with this life.
The biggest pirate treasure of all time is within our grasp.
Uncharted 4 - only on PlayStation.
PS4 - for the players.