Yeah, it was really cool! Although I missed that specific attempt live typically

And he climbed it!

Nice

I've been trying to follow each attempt live, bit of course I missed this one! Anyway, watchrd it a few hours later. Congrats Jakob, amazing feat!

I just hope he gets it before the end of the trip, will be a bit anticlimactic otherwise

I def didn't make it that far myself (that's my son)

the cave my son was trying to get to was the rihnos eye, and where he's now was the horn (I think).

I fell on the approach to this climb. 10/10 though

18m? wow. I jumped from about 6m, and that was my limit...

I did some deep water soloing in Thailand. Got to the top of an 18m climb, jumped off, felt like it took too long.... Opened my eyes to see what was going on because I thought I'd missed the sea... BAM right in the eyes, burst most of the blood vessels in my eyes and had bloody tears running down my face for a while. 10/10 would do it again.

This is so cool! I have been there, didn't make it as far as you though. Great picture and great memories

iirc the guide called it the rhinos horn

I mean, that's just the nature of high altitude mountaineering, isn't it? Especially on Everest, where so many show up so poorly prepared.

Let them. Natural selection.

That's my approach to sends.

I read some but not all of it

Obviously you don't even have the time to read articles!

If you have all the time in the world then sure, hike or bike to your crag. Otherwise I'll have no time to actually climb if I don't drive

Yep for setting up the achor. You can probably get away with less, especially if there are a lot a trees near the top where tou set the anchor. But it all adds up eventually $30 here, $100 here..

Ah my brain seemed to have skipped the second half of that sentence mentioning top rope. Yeah, that's still a shocker for me though. A rope is a few hundred and I didn't realize nuts and slings were used

No, bouldering is pretty cheap! Like shoes, chalk, and a $200 mat and you're good to go!

It's all the caribiners ropes, nuts, slings, and cams that add up for outdoor top rope

Damn boi. I just got my $300/yr membership and chalk

i might have quoted monthly memberships too high. but I know if u include competitions and travel it's about 6k a year . (for 2 competitive climbers and 2 rec climbers)

I didn't now outdoor bouldering was so expensive

Sheeeeesh

this is our most expensive sport. kids climb for about 10h a week. i climb about 5h a week. and my wife about 1h a week.

memberships are $150 a month for both the adults. and $300 a month for the kids (includes training/coaching)

My membership is like $70.

I think I added up all my gear a like 4 years ago and it was like $1200 for outdoor bouldering and top rope mainly. I think I'm going the have to retire my harness and ropes this year so that will be another ~$250 or so "maintenance cost"

That's a lot of gear.