"What it feels like to be on a sharp end live a lot of that goes on up there in your head." "That's always been the scariest part in climbing right before you're going to fall" "How far can you push yourself." "Knowing that if you slip." "You're sure you." "I figured well this just must be what separates the boys and that's when" "I went home a they're going to fall." "You know when you're out there on the sharp things when you done wrong." "You know I'm going to be able push it that long at some point it is going to have that man and you have to save yourself." "I could die today." "You have to be out there on the lunatic fringe of the theater." "We live in a world of tightly organized safety and yet there are those among us who seek out on the fringe of" "our society out there in the hills." "There's mutant strain." "Of fear tolerant individuals in open rebelion against the laws." "See for generations." "They've been laying it out on the line risking it all for moment glory" "On the sharp end" "to dokument this trival danger seekers will join up with the boldest among them on their quest for thrills around the world" "but with our journey begins in the climbing mecca of Boulder Colorado." "There's tradition of hard scary climbing that has been flourishing here since the nine hundred seventies." "When lines were established in a way that minimizes taxes and guaranteed venture in the years since protection was allowed timers to focus on pure difficulty but today a group of young guns is bringing back the bold traditional methods for going the safety of bolts" "and placing their own gear on an altar a heart was naturally technical means there is a movement toward seeing what you can do on here searching out the lines that we can find that are just as hard as you are for find but track out" "the flu this gay out and that's what inspired the WHO" "is what are her skirt with this bucket going for it" "That's what is it going to be and that's something awesome." "I'm about to enter and and place in here as this access." "Mental challenge you place a piece of the gear and thinking about what's going to happen when you fall" "and you just told the convention itself and the gears get in that you don't have worry you can just focus" "on mastering the art of natural protection has allowed folders elite few to establish groundbreaking first a sense and to push traditional climbing to a whole new level of difficulty if you're out there and you have to rely on you climbing ability" "and your competence to get you through the week the trends of just such and such well Boulder's new generation is redefining of the possibilities of hard trade climbing perhaps nobody lays it out on the line more often than" "Eldorado resident Hank Kaylor puts it right." "My head was a rebel my dog just shatterred all over." "Hank is among the boldest climbers in Eldorado Canyon good times and olderly living in a trailer with mastiff that barfs everywhere at least it's not a big turd." "He's got a reputation for risky capers and self-inflicted injuries." "I grew up playing hard, playing rough but hanging out with the wrong crowd" "After thirty nine years of broken limbs like my leg, head injuries call the horseshoe procedure and brushes with the law and cufled me to a gurney naked and stuck two hundred fifty stitches in my body with pain." "He's still making headlines he's jumping off of an." "The Suites Hotel and Denver my chute opened backwards and I barely had time to go well and then" "I'm like white washed in blood sitting the next to a bad" "Go back inside the building it was just the biggest mind fuck I could imagine" "Like you're going to be on the news these days." "Hank's been hanging with his bros you know the canyon climbing so-called death rates." "I got nothing better to do after or now might as well go get scared a lion." "If you blow any of the hard moves here belayer better be yanking some slack up or you're going to hit the ground shattering everything from the waist down" "the soul has to be read what it's when you can focus the most" "are good being dangerous is when I'm most comfortable." "You know once a decade it blows up in my face but other mad man although the consequence is it keeps." "Daddy happy keeps me sane." "I might be a funny personality but you know you just can't compete with like Matt Siegel and these guys there doing what I'm doing but like a number grade herder twenty four year old Matt Siegel is a staunch believer in using natural pro no matter how hard the Klein" "why do this instead of thirteen it's work or this is way more bitching and perhaps no root in an area upholds trad style in the face of difficulty more than must have been high a notorious x-rated line in Eldorado Canyon" "creek the routes entire five thirteen crux is protected by a single half inch knife blade could be futher difficult it's probably the scariest of all the harder trike on the boulder area if the knife blade rips we're probably going to get really, really hurt" "it's in secure slapping up this refrigerator block deficit Harry" "right here you're like the most run out from the pen and you get to place a small stopper" "but you have to deal with the mental aspect of being on lead it's just all about kind of keeping your shit together not letting you wheel spin too much you're up there like a purple c three size piece" "While I have to do is like one move" "was I take the whip or is totally spooked just like there me off i say quiet like is it really worth it's you know it's definitely a question that comes up but most parents try to stay focused and not even think about." "time back in and did it that day afterwards the were wories definitely worth it" "The sharp end has no strict definition." "Literally it's the end of the climbing rope where the leader ties in but there many styles of climbing out there and lots of weys to get your danger fix" "and for some people the sharp end is found when you leave the rope on the ground high ball ball here a basically Boulder and stuff that really ought out Bolton that seems like a fine way to get yourself looking for money." "We're going to search for young Lisa Rands as reigning queen of high ball bowler." "I've always been attracted to I Are very bold or problems she's living proof that the danger is not just do you think women realize we can go out there and have just as much fun as the boys are" "I really like to put myself out there on the line like one zero thirty feet off the ground" "You really have to focus to relax yourself." "I feel I'm trying to push myself physically and mentally when it comes to my climbing about seven years ago I moved to Bishop to really try to focus on doing higher hard all their problems" "I live here with my husband wells bishop has always been a center of high ball bouldering has always been a place where the boulders are marginalized" "climbing for me is just a yoyful thing to do and it's very personal thing" "I don't climb for anybody else I climb for my own pleasure." "But I feel like for Lisa." "It's more then enough for her she's really driven to be the best It would wash and sometimes you're pulling so hard you do movements but virtually" "When you're high off the ground" "You have to slip your mind from this raw power to very calm state" "So I spent the last few years really focusing on learning to control my mind" "A mission I've had for a while has been to climb the side of tired eyes overhanging Arad's and it continues while into the no fault zone it was one of those lines of everybody knew about everybody took a look at" "everybody went home thinking my gosh no way" "It's really begging really hard and very intimidating." "You have to push it off the groung." "It' pretty amazing how tall the thing is who" "As you get higher off the ground that hold a sort of disappear" "That's almost anything are you doing one right" "Their feet are probably twenty five feet off the ground and the matter how much stone you haven't or you get hurt your whole body compresses" "that was an eye opener and made me realize you can't follow any higher carry really going to get hurt" "Early I wanted a few days before going back and I kept beating myself up over the fact that I wouldn't commit." "I must have climbed the side of Paradise in my sleep five hundred times" "Even now it is crying for me watch her climb some of the things she's done" "I do have total confidence if I think she' going to do it so she' going to do it." "I knew what to do." "I simply had been mentally committed to go for it give it one hundred percent" "I was Trichy of that mind control to almost lose it" "And instead you just from down hundred percent and focus on the task at hand" "Our journey among the bold keeps us on the move from Colorado to California to the high Himalayas chiffon fortress right there it's really really want to climb it" "Oh man across the rivers of target market like us Chinese just let me get across this river herself" "The big mountains you may have to tie into the sharp end before you even get the climb it's going to go to you know good God it's Ok Ok Yes" "I'm Johny Stump on there you go !" "Alpine climbing is lifestyle and Johny college and living the dream travelling the world and making full commitment alpine style a sense dummies like Randy Macho, man Savage as well fine fine" "You know there are times that it was when you were going to the summit right now" "This is like whoa" "These are the most a guy House on Highland for sure big mission big adventures remote regions that have seen too much was definitely the most fun part of" "Johny's approach is faster than light carrying the bare minimum of gear" "So you can get to the summit in a single continuous push to have two ropes and one pack maybe nobody here and I don't have a headlamp because I dropped it" "We're going to talk about the car was here We were not going to need those little plants here" "But alpine style a leave you seriously exposed you really not having that much fun what happened you know it's not like it's difficult to keep chickens right out of this problem don't like" "You want to do it first try to know that I was going to do it over to the surface third day third day up on the mountain my kid just got done with the really wet water flow" "It should look through endless the cold now my god can laugh off some pretty crazy situations and not super important in the big nominees should stick to the rock club" "He's funny motherfucker for younger kids because this stuff" "There's a big chance of failure on a lot musician that makes it all the more fun to do sixteen yet she fought for truce" "Johny in Miko's search for alpine first ascends is worldwide wherever Steve unclimbed terrain can be found" "So we're here in Shawnee now it's the spring time we came here to climb ice rock my north face is are in great shape right now" "I've never been a salmon before and was completely blown away by the scale on the access to some of the most amazing alpine climbing in the world" "It's a really funky form of climbing snow over granite pretty floppy stuff" "climbing monkey here it snowed rotten ice these mix conditions" "That so hard to manage" "John you know that stuff really does pretty cool" "Yeah" "Now if the tradition of alpine risk taking runs deep in the French Alps and generations of climbers have conquered lines here or died trying" "to put a new route up here is pretty much impossible all the plums have been picked the one place that might have potential is the west face of the Drew because about half of the whole entire mountain fell off ten years ago" "It has this really ominous White Rock scar and everyone in town is like you're crazy guys can go up there but we went up there" "you know possibly Colorado cowboy style with on little pack and just start climbing and starting out on some really cool mixed terrain up these" "Rock Honors with some ice in the back of them screaming Garvey's of my hand" "Through all that and then it turned into a rock" "We got about halfway or so up the wall and a big storm came in crossing the whole face and ice" "We spent the night on a small little perch up there hunkered in for a pretty uncomfortable night" "Considering the storm's going to build you definitely don't want to be up in that situation for too long with the limited equipment" "cool night appear this tiny little snow ledge your only choice is to go down there just at the base of the wall" "Grew out the last days of the Juden kill us that's great sitting there like chucking our gear off super psyched and all of sudden you're this crack behind us and these two if you double the size blocks of lies are coming down" "and I just saw Mike his heels get clipped by the edge of one of these big chunks of ice the whole pretty big with just one hand for a lie it gives me pause once in while thinking about the close calls" "definitely is a moment of reflection and just you know how fragile we are in the alpine enviroment" "I've had friends and partners who paid the ultimate price for climbing in the big nominees" "So if the price of failure so high why take the risk ?" "I don't know how to answer the question of why I do this" "I don't know but I know there's really an answer it's just because people question." "It's a question that anyone who pushes the limits of risk will ultimately face another pathology and addiction" "Perhaps there's glitch in my brain" "I battle with that a lot of like what do you do" "There's no answer to why we're up there why we're in no risking ourselves and you know up in mountains just on the mountain having a good time for as long as people have been tying into sharp end" "The reason has been elusive" "Sir Edmund Hillary said he climbed for the hell of it and old George Mallory his answer was" "Because it's they're looking for answers in the pages of climbing history we come upon a surprising chapter over one hundred years ago" "Deep in the sandstone towers scattered across the border of Germany and the Czech Republic a cult of danger climbing heroes unlike anything the world had ever seen visitors to this land will find that among a ragged band of beer drinking former commies" "the traditional hard scary climbing still got we got a group of american CAD climbers who come over here and here to sample the ultimate trad climbing" "We have heard the this is very bold climbing but really we have no clue what to expect our travelers were lucky enough to be guided by legendary German climber band Arnold" "My name is Bernd Arnold" "I am 61 years old" "Climbing is a way of life for me" "I was born among these spires they are my habitat" "The first day Bernd decides he's going to introduce us to the climbing with a group free so he suggested taking all of our shoes off so we could feel the grains of sand on our feet before this getting used to the rock and feeling free scrambling about" "I didn't really realize it until I got here but this was pretty much the birth of modern free climbing in the late eighteen hundreds already people were starting to do gnarly technical free climbs on these towers and back in the sixty's and seventy's Bernd Arnold" "He was revolutionizing free climbing as we know it" "By the mid '60s" "I had climbed all the hard routes and I began to establish new ones" "These were by far the hardest and scariest climbs in the world at the time" "Arnold's high standards became a legacy" "For those who followed" "Thirty years ago, when I started climbing was the goal of climber to make some route which is so bad protected make very hard to repeat make first bold 20-30 meters over the ground" "Not only hard climbing but also hard mentally" "The local rules passed down over generations to preserve the rock are fairly simple" "First of all you can't use chalk which marks up the cliffs and unlike everywhere else in the world" "You can't protect the cracks with metal gear like nuts or cams" "So when faced with a typically massive run out between bolts what you're left with are little pieces of rope tied into nuts" "I like climbing with these knots for you it must be hard to belief that the knot will hold you" "I think it might be for you real scary" "If you climb some route if you fall you can become legend" "Or I go in hospital with broken leg which is funny sometimes" "You go on the sharp end make your knots ready and start climbing" "It's a whole new mind game sure" "the classic crack climbs are parallel sided and you can't get any here at all every once in while you come to a spot that has a constriction where you would pull up what you hope is the right size and pot it there and can't really tell if they're going to bat it" "can't believe I usually just yank on I'm a whole bunch this place is definitely the scariest place I claim they are when you get out on the faces and there's no chalk" "Yeah you don't have a clue where you're going all of the talismans that you have against the danger of climbing are kind of taken away from you and you're left with just you" "Who is just the beginning from the ball gets to your feet you go and you go and you go home and you go before you get another piece of gear" "I thought I was going to fall like a hundred feet out of me" "He pointed scary Probably one of the best oitches a rock climbing" "I've ever done little climbs here and definitely language and quests they're great a year ago and I'm going to go on and like no charge, no nothing" "It's pretty rad when you do I wish every place in the world was like this" "Hell no. it's really quite adventures" "You know where you're going at the time you soloing because it's superman out" "They've been trying to steal his germ from knowing he's trying to maintain a song play and even Alex is probably the best climber here but the first thing he asked" "Ben was what's the easiest car in here and I went to break my legs a going to do anything that's too dangerous and this was supposed not something that's on our clothes not my opinion the final is that he's the best bald" "climberb in the world right now cool not it's good to see him get a little scared of joke sketchy sketchy face Kline's slinging a little tread through running it out four fifty between ring bolts it's kind of mind blowing each show up here and you can even believe" "that these guys develop the style of climbing you know your car like that at guys like this is dangerous" "it's just the craziest climbing I've ever seen a major climbs to the homeys here in Eastern Europe we met a lot of climbers on this trip and one of them that stick out the most is Robert" "I'm Robert Leistner" "I found climbing as the sport of my life it's super crazy like no chalk five fourteen is a desperate it is one of the longest difficult routes here the rings are five metres to another" "After a really hard situation you relax and just fly" "Do you like that ?" "I like that." "Yes he is very similar to us in the aspect that he really is psyched on pushing the difficulty barrier by keeping style and ethics in mind it is also possible to climb very hard here without chalk" "Robert is brad going for a round up establishing five fourteen's with no chop that's cutting edge new school climbing fo sure" "by the second week of their trip the Americans were hungry to make their mark on the local scene" "Yeah direct their Pierrette fiasco so see the one of climb Arad most beatiful Arad's I've ever seen and then these Germans been climbing with started talking about how dangerous it was possible to do you fall you hit the ground you think it could be I was psyched" "until I think it would be the day that the Germans are psychotics the most dangerous most dangerous crazy and was going on to crime we don't want to die you want to have fun." "You know it's fucking crowded it's one of the scariest part here they said to me that" "I think we should do it" "Alex start egging him o to do it whole no big deal approach declining it's like nothing is a big deal to him you should to discovery this mountain he just wanted to see me like how some success on this really scary one out climb but" "when they got inside his head started thinking maybe you shouldn't do it psyched him out into the hundreds but what really got me on site" "The other night was a girl with a here for an hour diary but I was sketchy so scary an so hard an so like Muslims go there" "Find out we should go do it then and there you hear on this just like I get older you know like sector took one for the team will see I was going to get you by break my legs and better destroy all that's what I think" "it's real like that Alex hot just shot it all and started slowly appear there" "yes if an intense as like everybody was kind of on edge she's really sandy" "He has attained it for a good ten minutes on these sloping for going to read teachers just looking at potentially like a ninety foot fail that could've been really terrible so it was a full free solo head space" "the slow controlled steady as she goes taking your time" "watching Alex was pretty inspiring because he just he kept it together so well even when he was so far above his career that he would have fallen pretty much almost to the ground" "So that's pushing a pretty close to a mammoth foot on her breaking and it looks super super exciting" "I don't think it's a pitch that I want to lead" "Oh excess in a different headspace his ability to stay calm and not get all the way to the top" "Yeah Alex gets respect and I think he's about asking here" "Don't that to me a little jealous is kind of the superhero I always wisched I was but as Clint Eastwood said a man's got no limitations" "in the Czech big tradition all the nation it's we drink a beer a lot" "I don't mean like a lot a lot but... 8 - 10 beers every day is standard" "it's ten in the morning we were already drinking people are about tower jumping" "Here in Czech doing jumping between towers just because you want move from one tower to other but then come the idea, okay we make from this some kind of sport but the jump is always very danger always is broken leg" "or broken head, so" "I don't know it's good idea come to here and make a hard, hard jump" "I have a link with one of the most psych tower jumpers here in the Czech jumping is my life" "Yes I'm going to be following Peter around a few jumps here so we'll see how it goes" "To beer and women" "All right here we go" "I didn't break my ankle suite" "This one's is called Broken bones which isn't exactly the most encouraging name" "ouch no !" "not bad ?" "Dude don't do that one" "Okay c'mon" "I think I can jump from down here" "Doing these insane jumps between towers" "It's a really unique and fun climbing culture here" "It's unlike anything I've ever experienced it's no broken it's good" "These guys props to make it so scary and dangerous and going for it can take" "There's plenty of places to go climbing in the world" "This definitely isn't one of them" "the amazing thing I think about the serious one to talk about here in this wide open expanse for me it's been really inspiring" "a lot of respect for all the people that I've met in the Czech Republic and their strong will the fall of their own tradition something that no one else in the world" "Here are climbers and the people who who liked the area here and climbed here and who died" "Unfortunally my cousin" "Martinyenka... that's really meaningful to travel halfway around the world and have a common ground of climbing" "The world is good" "In climbing, your motivation changes with age" "These days, I am motivated to make even the hard things easy and light" "The lightness is what I enjoy the most" "I have broken a few bones but I always come back" "Our visit to Eastern Europe confirms that the history of the sharpened is litered with broken bones but it's still not exactly clear why someone would go in for that kind of ride" "Maybe it's time to turn our gaze from the past to the here and now so if Eastern Europe is the cradle of sharpened climbing then it's modern day providing ground is Yosemite Valley for the past fifty years" "Semi the climbers have been defining the standard for big wall climbing and that standard remains at the cutting edge" "Much thanks to one man" "Hi, I'm Ammon McNeily" "Ammon McNeally is probably the most accomplished big wall climber in the world right now" "things that I'm pretty good hearted for some reason" "If you're on a hard hit You'll get a series of body weight placement" "So it can hold your body weight but if you fall on it's generated" "Enough force to rip it out of the wall climbing one of the sports where it's so scary because you're standing on stuff that is just terrible" "you're kind of in this perpetual state of is this going to hold am I going to take a big fall and Amman just doesn't seem to worry about that" "Yeah" "shit yeah" "fuch you you know everyone in your family has a nickname in Amman is El Cap pirate" "I guess I'm this piratical in my nature I got a rough look about me he just kind of and bodies going hard having finding the yellow bag" "We're almost to the golden up all taking like a pirate for three or four days when partners like Buck up and we're done with the pirate allready are you mate he will have to keelhaul you for that he is taking the captain by storm" "and finding just the craziest deepest lines and doing whatever it takes to get through a lot of times on these books over the edge of the rock" "He likes to get through this section and I try to go through it and test my pieces and get up on it don't think about it to get to the better place part of the drill is because you know" "Yeah through the hard core of the real deal I could get fucked up I could get hurt right here" "I don't care stop what was being up there you know you can get to place where few people travel to amazing perspective on life" "Yeah make sure very love like yeah scaring the hell out of youself" "I was photographing on McNealy he was climbing on climb called surgeon general third solo thing of surgeon general took this nasty fall and I bang my head really good cracked my helmet" "Tom saw me through his telescope" "I heard the screem he was hanging from end of the rope sort of upside down motionless with him arms strong out and I just did I couldn't believe it pulled my helmet off it was kind of some white looking stuff" "I shook it off you know sat on that lead for about thirty minutes helicopter unit up come in trying to rescue me" "And of course I was having none of it to me it's all good if I fall I can live with that but if I fail I'm going to get myself out of the head" "I'm going to like and they're down there watching me i think i'm just going have to get back up there and start climbing and maybe they'll go away and sure enough were all going to die of these" "you know it's matter of time" "I would rather live forty years of excitement and fun and exhilarating and just full volume of the" "I did eighty years of la li la you know boring" "Yeah man why not get out there and it was pretty good or you know nanny" "The primordial fear of falling has apparently lost its impact on some people" "So where do they go next to find the fear object lesson" "Chris McNamara" "He's of man He's a little out there like me" "Chris Mack is a veteran wall climber who is looking for the next big wall he found it on the way down" "I started climbing big walls when I was fourteen and I saw a base jumper go by me while I was on" "Cape town in my mind I always thought ok and then one day I'm going to do" "I'm be careful man your base jumping" "I kind of got through the learning curve but I think I was sort of lucky" "Don't this ?" "No no don't do that you're spinning it the wrong way when it comes back dive over the top and just do a street dive like on your head yet only slightly are handy for the first job is pretty much impossible so" "Chris Mack is an interesting jump You definitely plan pretty crazy especially in the begining an all the people saw the waning him and you're like hey dude it's you know I'm going to be able to push it out" "I wasn't planning to open there" "Now he's a pretty experienced of flying sorry about that" "Yeah it's a really expensive i know" "I'm originally from Europe and it's great to come back and get to fly all this class" "Europe's the best place to base jump in the world because the let you jump off pretty much anything you want to some of largest cliffs with big big jumps" "in your wing suit base jumping at first you're falling getting that feeling of dead air your stomach falls out that last moment you're where like what did I used to you" "but then within only three or four seconds you're actually moving forward really fast you feel the air" "Almost like you're flying forward a hundred miles an hour" "But you're kind of the whole deal is that you get this freedom to go wherever you want to go explore a new part of the wall you came for some features get real close and then along the surface" "you really only feel" "Steve when there's something relative to you each time you why next year while the next jump you want to go maybe even closer and you get into a limit at some point realize thet you know you don't want to go through clothes" "and see this Bush coming out like you want to go fly close to that a then as I got closer and closer I went to wait maybe I'm flying a little too close" "I don't know maybe maybe as a foot or two above it" "You have like a tell you know wind gust or you make a terrible mistake you can be in that" "but just once you get to the summit" "There's definitely a bit of an edge in the air over that area like a couple hundred feet and then you have really hard right in the end the most important thing is to be relaxed and you just breathe and chill" "But I really want to you know I have had you know a pretty bad experience base jumping where I was jumping with someone who died" "That definitely made me rethink the whole sport" "I'm never base jumping any more unless I really think it's worth" "And I think it's safe because there's nothing worth dying for" "and never set out to you will push it too hard" "You're only doing it if you feel in control but you just have those flights were just everything clicks and it feels really good and and you just to go for it" "as we see base jumping is kind of the coolest thing I've ever done yet" "So when you have a really good flight it is about as good as it gets" "Chris Mack may be on to something here that moment out there on the edge where our fear and confidence collide" "and evolve the style of climbing may be the best way to get to that place" "It's free soloing don't no time going no main to be able to free solo something that is an expression of being so in control that you know you're going to be able to do it without falling" "there's a pretty strong mental dialogue and pretty strong engagement with fear time to say well it's hard to push past that I fear it's something that for me takes a lot of fire a lot of preparation" "and I don't have to be paralyzed by fear I can just go do it" "no matter what the discipline" "Steph Davis is always pushing her limits" "There are certain times when I want to do the hardest thing I can but if I'm climbing with a rope I'm usually thinking about difficulty to push myself to the point of failing" "on my farm crying my hardest you know there's going to be a lot of times you're sort out of control and you know that can be really dealing with the same time" "I want to sense of nastyily to be really really solid with three solo climbing and it's about raising the level of which I feel solid raising the level of rope less climbing has led Steph to her most committing route yet" "the thousand foot per vertical sanctuary on the legendary long speak diamond when I was younger climbing up here all the time it was like this humongous dream of mine the diamond but if I'm going to go up there and do that or it's death consequences" "I have to figure out how to have the right mindset and what that means to me and I'm going to really learn something" "The climbing is pretty steep vertical or overhanging if you fell off you go down about a thousand feet" "the correct section is a good handfull of moves that you have to kind of maintain there out there it is a little steep person you're not totally on your feet" "It's a little more strenuous" "I'm just looking at the rock thinking here a lack of good feelings" "To me is soloing something like best It's really about being a fireman or there's a lot of risk and controlling yourself" "and controlling yourself you're going to be safe" "That' the chalenge" "As the years go by the standards that define the cutting edge get pushed futher and futher and we're already catching glimpses of the future" "when you can free solo beyond the realm of control to the point the following" "That's always been the scariest part in climbing is falling right before you're going to fall" "but I thought about free soloing I think about that moment over and over again when I would detach from the rock and that would be it" "It would be my death" "having a basic concept like the all vs all timid idea when I saw the ring on I know there is more after that point where I detach from the rock" "thickening clouds on the Eiger make a safe space X it impossible forcing Dean to reverse back down climb" "but even getting to that moment where the fall potential is real and the only protection is a six pound bass parachute has been the culmination of many disciplines like while climbing" "free soloing high lining" "then base jumping" "which lead to the baseline the idea that I once had that falling I was dead" "now falling is controlled and that's a great thing to be able to change you know instead of dying I'm flying" "for me a big doors opened and I'm seen the world now through different eyes" "for Dean the bass solo is the next logical step but the concept remains relatively untested" "Dean has taken the fall on other cliffs" "But the north face of the Eiger with thousands of feet of Alpine limestone is unpredictable" "and in this point There's still a lot of uncertainly about what happens when I fall" "really aware of the exposure" "You know an then I break through into the calm and focused heightened awareness that attracts me" "just huge into the texture of the rock and my contact and still pratty much Haagen onto the saltwater" "Thing that I'm getting out of pushing my limits is turn impossible to possible I'd turn something I haven't doner to some clean undoing" "But the possibilities of what we're capable of doing" "We believe in it is the most compelling thing I can think of" "our exploration into this world of high adventure has come to an end but only for now because there will always be people out there reaching for the next big challenge on the sharp end that case has no right to protection a person not on the outside mind" "sharp end it's where you feel confident and you feel that you're in your element so you can kind of push yourself to the most challenging and the most intense situation when you were standpoint it seems like you want you know happen all those things" "to the joy of actually falling apart you get to the top and you get stand in your eyes and you're all bloody and barely friggin able to breathe but your sight you know your sight because you pull it off" "feels like you're doing something crowd it feels like to accomplish something for yourself by being up there and going to use it then through the floor and feel it fees you from the whole doubt in your system if you keep just go for" "it that's what it is it's just going forward" "That's the sharp end" "on the sharp end you need a strong spirit"