Nope

[Horace]

@Catseye3 said in Nope:

@taiwan_girl said in Nope:

Free climb of El Capitan

TG, what's your source for this? I'd like to know more.

They made a whole movie about Honold’s free climb of El Capitan. It’s called Free Solo.

[taiwan_girl]

@Catseye3

Link to video

[jon-nyc]

@Catseye3

The really cool part:

Dierdre Wolownick, Alex Honnold's mother, started climbing at age 60 and is the oldest woman to climb El Capitan (first at the age of 66 and then, breaking her own record, again at age 70)

[Mik]

It's on Hulu for free if you have that.

[Catseye3]

@jon-nyc said in Nope:

Dierdre Wolownick, Alex Honnold's mother, started climbing at age 60 and is the oldest woman to climb El Capitan (first at the age of 66 and then, breaking her own record, again at age 70)

Here's a profile of her: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-10-28/dierdre-honnold-wolownick-rock-climbing-mom

Following Horace's tip led me to a career biog of Reinhold Messner, billed as "the greatest mountaineer on earth". Amazing reading.
https://achievement.org/achiever/reinhold-messner/

I imagine how 99.90% of people gaze upon Pakistan's Nanga Parbat and admire its beauty and magnificence, and the other .10% -- ah, the other .10% gaze upon it and think, "I'm gonna conquer that bitch."

[George K]

[George K]

[Mik]

Big brass ones. Either that or a death wish.

[George K]

@Mik said in Nope:

Big brass ones. Either that or a death wish.

No kidding. This has to be one of the "nopiest" nopes I've ever seen.

[Copper]

Helmet please

At least the bike guy knew that safety is no accident

[Catseye3]