Fuk the System
January 04, 2012 10:15 AM Comments - 2
Been following Neil Chelton’s rise as new big wall superstar since - well? - about last year when he soloed the ‘easiest route’ on El Cap (there are no easy routes - just some less hard ones). He emailed me afterwards with his crazy tale, telling me he’d been inspired by Psychovertical (I do hate it when people say things like that).
Anyway it seems that in the space of a year he’s taken the hard won lesson of that solo (ie stubbornness + stupidness + big wall - experience = grade 2 adventure*) and use it well. I wish him luck.
Anyway here’s a little video of his summer that proves Lowe’s maxim of ‘The best climber in the world is the one having the most fun!’ - even if the fun only starts at the end of the day.
*grade 2 adventure is an experience that is terrible at the time (no matter how much you smile at the video camera), but which afterwards becomes one of the best/most important episodes of your life.
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Dave | 01/07/12
This vid really put a smile on my face. Good to see a climbing vid where the climbers seem to actually be enjoying themselves for once!
Also, Andy, been reading the “stories” section on here which I never noticed before, and really enjoying it. Great stuff.
January 07, 2012Stabitha | 01/08/12
why do you hate being told that your book inspired them to do it??
January 08, 2012