Try to name one thing harder than Alex Honnold climbing El Capitan with no ropes.

SAlly Vx wrote:

Amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96FUPTQeqYI

Climbing down with no ropes.

BOOM!

YMMV wrote:

hofst wrote:

The OP didn't say more dangerous, he said more difficult. Free climbing Dawn Wall is absolutely more demanding than free soloing Freerider.

In that case, "Silence" at 5.15d silences the debate. It took Ondra many years to complete, compared to a few weeks on Dawn Wall.

Fine. They are both acceptable answers.

SillyWilly wrote:

Going to the moon without a spaceship.

Um, ever hear of NASA?

Where? I'm not trying to be a jerk--I'm genuinely curious where a poster on Letsrun has free-soloed 2000'.

YMMV wrote:

I have done free solo climbs up to 2000', but much easier technically. It's a young man's game. Men in their 20s don't see themselves as mortal for the most part (although even then, I did).

Alex Honnold is a totally amazing person, that's for sure.

I hope he manages to live a long time.

Er... wrote:

Where? I'm not trying to be a jerk--I'm genuinely curious where a poster on Letsrun has free-soloed 2000'.

YMMV wrote:

I have done free solo climbs up to 2000', but much easier technically. It's a young man's game. Men in their 20s don't see themselves as mortal for the most part (although even then, I did).

Half Dome without touching the cables

John Utah wrote:

herding cats is probably harder

they tried to do it on myth busters and it's basically impossible

That would be interesting to see.

Er... wrote:

Where? I'm not trying to be a jerk--I'm genuinely curious where a poster on Letsrun has free-soloed 2000'.

YMMV wrote:

I have done free solo climbs up to 2000', but much easier technically. It's a young man's game. Men in their 20s don't see themselves as mortal for the most part (although even then, I did).

Due to a personal stalker-troll on this site, I will have to be vague and just say that it was an alpine climb, only 5.9 in difficulty, but a first ascent with lots of loose rock. I also soloed a number of routes in the 700-1500' range, also first ascents, up to 10+/11- often with loose rock as well. This was mostly in my late 20's to early 40's. These were all well within my technical capabilities (I was climbing 5.12 trad/13+ sport at the time). Alex has climbed 13+ trad/14+ sport so 13- is not at his limit at all. Nonetheless a fantastic achievement.

BTW Euro climbers Alex Huber and Alain Robert have free soloed much more technical (but shorter and less visually spectacular) climbs.

Honnold climbing the face of Half Dome, hiking down to the Valley and then climbing El Capitan all in one day (using ropes on one section of El Capitan only). There is a narrow inch ledge most of the way up on the face of Half Dome he had to move sideways over for maybe 100 feet I believe.

YMMV wrote:

Due to a personal stalker-troll on this site, I will have to be vague and just say that it was an alpine climb, only 5.9 in difficulty, but a first ascent with lots of loose rock. I also soloed a number of routes in the 700-1500' range, also first ascents, up to 10+/11- often with loose rock as well. This was mostly in my late 20's to early 40's. These were all well within my technical capabilities (I was climbing 5.12 trad/13+ sport at the time). Alex has climbed 13+ trad/14+ sport so 13- is not at his limit at all. Nonetheless a fantastic achievement.

How many 2000' walls are there that were open for a FA even a few decades ago?

YMMV wrote:

Er... wrote:

Where? I'm not trying to be a jerk--I'm genuinely curious where a poster on Letsrun has free-soloed 2000'.

Due to a personal stalker-troll on this site, I will have to be vague and just say that it was an alpine climb, only 5.9 in difficulty, but a first ascent with lots of loose rock. I also soloed a number of routes in the 700-1500' range, also first ascents, up to 10+/11- often with loose rock as well. This was mostly in my late 20's to early 40's. These were all well within my technical capabilities (I was climbing 5.12 trad/13+ sport at the time). Alex has climbed 13+ trad/14+ sport so 13- is not at his limit at all. Nonetheless a fantastic achievement.

BTW Euro climbers Alex Huber and Alain Robert have free soloed much more technical (but shorter and less visually spectacular) climbs.

Yup, sure...

Summiting Everest sans supplemental O2.

Harambe wrote:

YMMV wrote:

Due to a personal stalker-troll on this site, I will have to be vague and just say that it was an alpine climb, only 5.9 in difficulty, but a first ascent with lots of loose rock. I also soloed a number of routes in the 700-1500' range, also first ascents, up to 10+/11- often with loose rock as well. This was mostly in my late 20's to early 40's. These were all well within my technical capabilities (I was climbing 5.12 trad/13+ sport at the time). Alex has climbed 13+ trad/14+ sport so 13- is not at his limit at all. Nonetheless a fantastic achievement.

How many 2000' walls are there that were open for a FA even a few decades ago?

It was an unclimbed route, not an unclimbed wall. There were several other established routes already on the face.

Being Black in the United states

SAlly Vx wrote:

Amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96FUPTQeqYI

Finding a woman who is not crazy?

SillyWilly wrote:

Going to the moon without a spaceship.

Unless your name is Alice...

Maybe Reinhold Messner's achievement of doing all 14 "eight thousanders" without supplemental oxygen (and was the first to do all 14 to boot).

He might argue that he has done harder climbs. As one poster said, it’s so far below his max as to not be that big a deal. Setting makes it a grand achievement. To put it in context, it’s like telling Kipchoge to go run 5 min pace for 26.2. Very little risk he fails.

Easy: Being able to watch the documentary online of Honnold climbing El Cap. There is plenty of hype about this right now, but they are refusing to capitalize on it. Brilliant.