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e mean, So this is actually exactly what you look for is a climate like a big crowd striking feature.
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And that is a nice tower.
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And you see it in a nice location.
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I'm like, Oh, that That does look cool to climb.
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Flynn Rider is actually soloing up this tower.
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You know, he gets to the top, and you can't.
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You can't argue with results.
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Oh, wow.
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With that cliff, lots of good features.
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Looks very easy to climb.
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Cody here is employing some very technical climbing skills.
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It is exactly what we're looking for for as a climber.
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I'm pretty sure I saw him do a hand jam in that crack.
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You stick your hand in the crack and you do a jam and you pull off.
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I agree.
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Actually, I think the filmmakers did a good job on this.
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I mean, right being kangaroo, perhaps less realistic than the climbing.
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So this is a really proud feature.
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These are the types of formations that really inspire climbers and really inspire me.
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Wanna is doing great.
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She's a champion.
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This would be a major climbing destination if it was really so this is definitely an unconventional setting for any kind of rock climbing.
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I wouldn't normally recommend Alpine climbing in high heel boots.
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Well, and climbing and mittens is a hard no e would suggest crampons and ice axes.
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Then you can come admittance because using ice tools and from where she has I would walk around with left and climb that big tongue feature of snow.
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I think on a would be a really great Alpine climber if she had the right equipment.
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This is an unfortunate situation to find yourself in.
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Is a climber curious what's gonna happen when it gets too wide here and they can't span anymore?
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Because this is a legitimate full body chimney technique.
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I've never seen it done back to back.
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Normally you have your own back against one wall and then you're walking your feet up the other one.
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But this technique is something that, uh, Alex and I will probably have to look into for a really white chimney.
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I actually did a move, not this similar to this in the climate gym yesterday, basically pushing as hard as I can, I can barely reach to a thing I can't quite reach in.
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It's like everything straining and like that type of opposition stuff where you're pushing us hard as you can is definitely a part of finding.
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Think about climbing next to a waterfall is if they're strong, wind the waterfall from the shift upto hundreds of feet in any direction.
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So the little spire that she's on looks like it could just get hammered by that waterfall.
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She also seems to be strong enough to cut herself when she's falling and clearly unfazed.
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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.
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My normal life is just all the things that I wanted to be doing is a climber and several my best climbing friends where they're documenting the process.
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But the reality is that any kind of production is slightly stressful, and I mean, basically, it's just really hard climbing and really hard filmmaking.
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And so obviously there was challenges involved.
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A lot of the projects and stories that I like to tell revolve around the human spirit and around, uh, human potential.
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I think National Geographics Free Solo was really about those things I mean, I guess there's one take away from free solo.
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It's It's that, you know, ideally, make clear choices with how you wanna live your life and and then follow.
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Follow this sort of, you know, actually execute on on the way you wanna live.
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You know, I think Alex really showed there are no shortcuts and that it takes just really, really hard work.
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You can achieve anything.
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Make sure to check out a National Geographic documentary Films Free Solo now streaming on Disney plus.