Good video, even if I’m don’t quite agree with the superlative. I suspect that the festival film this video is about (this YouTube is a Pete Whitaker behind the scenes https://youtu.be/pDCSzC7PJBg) will be better, and also I’m excited for the full 3d/ vr films that should be coming out soon (here is Alex honold doing the behind the scenes thing https://youtu.be/dy4jGZ—gre)
The “behind the scenes” video apparently isn’t available now :(
But thanks for sharing some extra details!
I think a big part of why I think this is (maybe not literally literally, but ‘seriously literally’ anyways) “the best” free solo video is that it’s so focused and almost ‘spare’.
It doesn’t include any of the ‘social drama’ around free solo climbing (or any kind of relatively dangerous climbing, e.g. mountaineering). I found that fairly annoying about “Free Solo”. I still want to see a (LOT) more of the actual climbing for that climb.
I’ve watched a good bit of videos/movies about free solo climbing, but this video is the most ‘perfect gem’ in terms of a focus on free soloing. It’s not about a climbing trip involving free solo climbs. It’s about one free solo climb, and it’s almost perfect that: (a) this is Magnus’s first ‘real’ free solo climb (> ~20m); (b) Magnus is a great climber. It highlights/demonstrates that, in a very real sense, the biggest difficulty of free solo climbing is mental/emotional; not physical.
Good video, even if I’m don’t quite agree with the superlative. I suspect that the festival film this video is about (this YouTube is a Pete Whitaker behind the scenes https://youtu.be/pDCSzC7PJBg) will be better, and also I’m excited for the full 3d/ vr films that should be coming out soon (here is Alex honold doing the behind the scenes thing https://youtu.be/dy4jGZ—gre)
The “behind the scenes” video apparently isn’t available now :(
But thanks for sharing some extra details!
I think a big part of why I think this is (maybe not literally literally, but ‘seriously literally’ anyways) “the best” free solo video is that it’s so focused and almost ‘spare’.
It doesn’t include any of the ‘social drama’ around free solo climbing (or any kind of relatively dangerous climbing, e.g. mountaineering). I found that fairly annoying about “Free Solo”. I still want to see a (LOT) more of the actual climbing for that climb.
I’ve watched a good bit of videos/movies about free solo climbing, but this video is the most ‘perfect gem’ in terms of a focus on free soloing. It’s not about a climbing trip involving free solo climbs. It’s about one free solo climb, and it’s almost perfect that: (a) this is Magnus’s first ‘real’ free solo climb (> ~20m); (b) Magnus is a great climber. It highlights/demonstrates that, in a very real sense, the biggest difficulty of free solo climbing is mental/emotional; not physical.