Speed climbing.

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

This was on at the end of last night's coverage on the Beeb - the wall is 15m high and tilts outwards by 5°, but it almost looks like you are viewing it from above and they are scrambling along a horizontal surface. Amazing.

View: https://youtu.be/85n6Kg4DQYg

 

[michael hoy]

They go up faster than most people can run 🙂

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

They go up faster than most people can run 🙂

It doesn't feel any less spectacular with subsequent viewings, and the men were under 6s.

 

[Friesiansam]

That is unfeasibly fast climbing!

How the hell do they do that?

 

[Al ears]

That is unfeasibly fast climbing!

How the hell do they do that?

practice, they could never this on a proper cliff.

 

[Friesiansam]

practice, they could never this on a proper cliff.

Indeed and it requires a great deal of strength, agility and coordination. It is just that, they are so good at what they do, it seems almost effortless and unreasonably quick.

 

[plastic penguin]

This was on at the end of last night's coverage on the Beeb - the wall is 15m high and tilts outwards by 5°, but it almost looks like you are viewing it from above and they are scrambling along a horizontal surface. Amazing.

View: https://youtu.be/85n6Kg4DQYg

Looks almost cartoonish fast.

 

[plastic penguin]

practice, they could never this on a proper cliff.

Like this

View: https://youtu.be/xKLsBk5CijQ

 

[Al ears]

Like this

View: https://youtu.be/xKLsBk5CijQ

That I have seen and it is impressive and staged Top Gear stunt, however it is not speed climbing as we know it that only happens on internal artificial climbing walls

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

Like this

View: https://youtu.be/xKLsBk5CijQ

I must have seen that fifteen or twenty times!

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

She's still getting quicker:

View: https://youtu.be/Bl4IJcKwy6E

 

[Friesiansam]

She's still getting quicker:

View: https://youtu.be/Bl4IJcKwy6E

And, still seems unfeasibly quick, like a spider on speed!

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

And, still seems unfeasibly quick, like a spider on speed!

But rather more attractive, mercifully.