Fresno CHP Air Opps Rescues Rock Climber on Yosemite's Cathedral Spire on Easter Sunday

Rescue of a thankful Blake Parkinson occured with a chopper pulling him from a Higher Cathedral Spire ledge after a 30+ foot fall.

The Most Intense Free Solo Climbing Video by Alex Honnold

Honestly, I'm a bit disgusted with North Face for turning Alex Honnold into a TV show.  Muscles tear, joints pop, rock breaks. Everyone at the crags knows how the story ends and it won't have anything to do with skill.  This is a wildly impressive accomplishment and one you can ponder the next time you're on an NYC subway and see 500 'bros' wearing North Face fleeces. 

Nonetheless, SkySight did an amazing job capturing some of this footage.

Alex Honnold video - free solo of the 5.12 "El Sendero Luminoso" (1500-foot big wall) in Monterrey, Mexico.

Videographer Team includes Cedar Wright, Renan Ozturk, and SkySight RC.

SloMo Crux:



February, 2014. Alex is still alive. Spectacular additional footage:

Scariest Ice Climbing Fall - Last Minute Decision Saved His Life...

Fall and wildly close call for an ice climber on Kennedy's Gully in the Ouray Ice Park, Colorado:

Leave it to Brits to Refer to Ollie Daniel as a "Hillwalker" - Video interview with Ollie after 800 foot fall...

Who is the Rock Climbing "Monkey King" of India?

His name is Jyoti Raju, 27 (?) years old, from Karnataka.

Jyoti began climbing with thoughts of suicide but instead of jumping from a cliff, decided to climb it.

His skills and fearlessness persist to this day where he entertains crowds with his bouldering / free solo climbing exhibitions on walls of the tenth century Chitradurga Fort.



Are humans built to climb?

Greg Downey at NeuroAnthropology has some cool insights.

Jyothi is still climbing as he launches his acting carreer, and has made headlines as recently September 2013, when he scaled the clock tower at Moorusavir Math.