Where’s that NOPE thread?

[jon-nyc]

[89th]

1. I'm sure the answer is simple, but after he clips into that one anchor and starts climbing up, how does he (eventually) unclip from that anchor?

2. I'm not sure if it was an invention per se, but I did see a local story where a guy took those "screw in" anchor devices and converted them into a very easy way to anchor a tent, instead of hammer and stake, you just did the manual auger thing to easily get it into the ground.

3. Best ice climbing video is this one btw. He is thrown a rope, it turns out as he was just one more step away from death.

Link to video

[Doctor Phibes]

@89th said in Where’s that NOPE thread?:

Best ice climbing video is this one btw. He is thrown a rope, it turns out as he was just one more step away from death.

I (kind of) understand doing that, but I don't get the laughter at all.

[AndyD]

Relief and tension released after near death experience.

Super videos both. My legs were 'going' each time the first climber looked down

[Mik]

My brother has done ice climbing like that. I think he’s insane.

[89th]

@AndyD said in Where’s that NOPE thread?:

Relief and tension released after near death experience.

Super videos both. My legs were 'going' each time the first climber looked down

I think I posted about this before, but anyway, if you can somehow spend 30 minutes and watch this, ideally as fullscreen and undistracted possible. My palms were so sweaty, especially halfway through when I had flashes of panic had I found myself on such an "easy" climb. Honestly, this was very reckless for Alex to convince the guy to do it (who btw is a world-class climber in his own right) when really the climb was harder than Alex implied.

Link to video

[AndyD]

Mad. When Magnus strapped on the headcam and climbed the dark sandstone it becomes so uncomfortable to watch.

[jon-nyc]

Alex turned 40 yesterday.

[89th]

Instead of saying he's over the hill, you can just say he's now on the descent.