Oh yeah... So Alex Honnold recently free solo'd (no ropes, no protection against falling--if he misses he's dead) el capitan freerider. It's graded 5.13a. 3300 ft. Apparently there's a pretty insecure V7 boulder problem 1700ft up.
For those that don't know much about climbing I'll try to put this into some perspective:
Some people are calling this the GOAT sports achievement. Idk how to really determine that but what he did is absolutely incredible. There are plenty of lean, strong, atheltic climbers that have been climbing for years that cannot boulder at v7 or climb 5.13a.
I've been absolutely obsessed with climbing, well bouldering, since I started 1.5yrs ago. I've gone at least 3 times a week except for a 2 week stretch when I sprained my ankle. I came in somewhat lean and I could do 10 pullups. From what I've seen and heard, I'd estimate my natural finger strength, when I started, vs noobs, to be in the 90+ percentile.
I cannot and have never sent a v7...
I'm talking about true v7s. Outside v7s. Gym's have a lot of variance in grades and some are quite soft and almost all gym grades are softer than outside. If I hadn't gained weight at this point maybe I could send a soft outside v7 that fits my stile. Most likely not though. I bet less than 2% of people who boulder could send one in their first 2yrs.
So it's quite hard. Now imagine doing that after you've climbed 1700ft and still have another 1600ft to go and if you **** up you're dead. Truly an incredible feat.
In the 2nd pic if you zoom in he is not doing a hand jam (which are quite good/secure) but rather looks like some tensiony gaston.
Last edited by TooCuriousso1; 06-04-2017 at 11:13 PM.