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VIDEO: Free Soloing Up and Down Mt. Whitney, CA

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CragBrains | August 16, 2021

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VIDEO: Polish Daredevil Arrested After Free-Soloing Second Tallest Building in France

A Polish climber was arrested after scaling the outside of the Montparnasse Tower in central Paris on the evening of September 18, French media reports. Videos taken by nervous onlookers from the bottom of the 689-foot skyscraper (France’s second-tallest building) show Marcin Banot, who vlogs under the moniker “BNT” or BNT fhujHD, free-soloing the building’s exterior dozens of floors […]

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SnowBrains | October 8, 2020

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The Most Difficult Rope-less Climb in History | Alex Honnold on 2,500-Ft “El Sendero Luminoso”

On January 15, 2014, Alex Honnold free-soloed “El Sendero Luminoso” (The Shining Path) in El Portero Chico, Mexico in a little over 3 hours. The climb rises 2,500 vertical feet to the summit of El Toro. It could be the most difficult rope-less climb in history. There is only one constant to human behaviors: the desire to always push boundaries. This behavior is evolutionarily supported as it has […]