jogill
climber
Colorado
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Jan 28, 2013 - 03:41pm PT
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Right now it's still fairly inconceivable, but I reckon it is inevitable the Nose will eventually get free-soloed
I agree. In the 60 years since I began climbing I have seen the inconceivable gravitate to the merely challenging. If it is true "The past is a different country: they do things differently there" (The Go-Between), then the same can be said of the future.
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couchmaster
climber
pdx
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Jan 28, 2013 - 03:42pm PT
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What Deuce and John Gill say about progress are right on.....but still, whew.
There's some lil kids cranking stuff in the gyms that would have been beyond description 5 years back, some of them are taking to the cliffs with startling and impressive results. Who knows what's possible ?
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toadgas
Social climber
los angeles
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Jan 28, 2013 - 04:01pm PT
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people think that the "future" is during their lifetimes, or 10-20 years from now
short of an asteroid wiping us all out, the Nose WILL get 3rd classed, sometime within the next 500 years
maybe when ceramics or alloys replace human tendons, etc
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TomCochrane
Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
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Jan 28, 2013 - 04:16pm PT
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free soloing with a base rig
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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Jan 28, 2013 - 04:59pm PT
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is the day I pull my motorized wheelchair up to the crag and send a 5.3
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WBraun
climber
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Jan 28, 2013 - 06:03pm PT
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There's guys already around that can free solo any route on El Cap.
They won't do it though.
They don't want nor need to be reveled.
It would fuk all you people up ......
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JLP
Social climber
The internet
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Jan 28, 2013 - 06:10pm PT
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free soloing with a base rig This is another armchair fantasy. Reality is that the El Cap routes that go free have too many features to hit long before a chute would open. Even on the Salathe Headwall, there's Sous Le Toit and slabs for a few hundred feet below it in the way. The Nose upper dihedrals are a giant low angle drainpipe with numerous ledges. If it could be done with a reasonable level of sanity, I think it would have been attempted by now, for sure.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Jan 28, 2013 - 06:11pm PT
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Just back from the OR show. Most notable change for me since i worked in the outdoor industry was the amazing number of incredible climbers who were there as "atheletes" or " ambassadors" for outdoor companies. There were also a ton more who were looking for sponsorship.
There is now intense competition for a limited amount of sponsorship dollars. To stand out from the crowd you have to do more and more outrageous things. A few years ago Alex Honnold was nowhere in the sponsorship arena and now he is a corporate darling....and for good reason. His accomplishments speak for himself and he's a great guy to boot.
Take home lesson....young climbers are wondering how to make that jump to stardom.....soloing El Cap comes to mind. Something like that should be uniquely, unqualifiedly PERSONAL. Other motives portend trouble.
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Jan 29, 2013 - 09:20am PT
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It has been free-soloed, sort of. I saw it on Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. Kirk is free-soloing but is startled by Spock in "jet boots" and falls.
So I guess it has not been free-soloed.
BTW, while I have always liked the original Star Trek series and some of the subsequent films with the original cast members. I am not a Trekkie. I just remember that scene, probably because it was shot in the Valley.
I never saw any of the other Star Trek offshots (perhaps watched a couple of minutes, and at an Actor's Masterclass at the Galway Film Fleadh, Colm Meaney was the featured talker and spoke some of the series he was in).
Though I liked the latest movie with the new young cast.
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