Arnaud Petit climbs "Black Bean" 8b with natural pro in Ceüse

[bartwolynczyk]

Respect !!! It was amazing, thank you for this film.

[DrMFoolz]

Toujours aussi sympa, Arnaud.

[fuzzlwuzzl]

wow very brave

[megalomuhaha]

A beautiful way to reinterpret an already outstanding route. Climbing as art!

[doudoudu7498]

"c'est un peu du solo c pas dur c'est du 7a" lol le batard

[Leutwein]

Pas mal, Pascal... :)

[JefferyWhiganshire]

I love it, no cheering, no emotion, he just drops the rope and looks down with a kind of "meh" look on his face, then just walks away. Epically french

[mralex5425]

just go ahead and leave the gear.

[theultimateshoe]

good trad climbers always seem to talk themselves out of realising just how runout the hard route they're doing is!

[s13hgp]

Fantastic piece of climbing, traditional climbing with no pre-placed gear sorts the men from the boys for sure.

[Pandorum4000]

Congrats to the video-makers and the climber of course. It's great to have such unique pictures served to us in our cozy, safe and comfortable chairs.

[DogOnBoard]

my hands get sweaty wet from watching this :D

[dutheng]

Je regarde cette vidéo au moins une fois par semaine ! Je trouve amusant le choix de musique "Sad Robot". "La vie au bout des doigts" commençait sur The Robots de Krafterk. Hasard, clin d'oeil ou franc-maçonerie de robots grimpeurs ?

[bdelapierre]

Pur hasard !! mais merci pour la comparaison !

"franc-maçonnerie de robots grimpeurs", belle formule

@ bientôt donc

[denfocusHD]

QUE CABROONN !

[martinmckenna1989]

I must have watched this at least 20 times now. Still amazing!

[bdelapierre]

Arnaud did several climbs, it's why there are differents angles shots

[davidmcsween]

This looks great but how did you shoot the close ups? Did you do a second climb? I didn't see anyone in the wide shots. How many cameras did you use?

[Laochri]

Awesome climbing! But why would you untie and just let your ropes fall, leaving your protection behind? If your gonna do that Just send it to me!

[d1a2n3e489]

@Laochri lol

[TheMikeLott]

Two dislikes? Philistines.

[hahahamuthafucka]

who would dislike something lke this

[JabbawockCGN]

my palms are full of sweat, my mouth is dry and my brain shouts: get out and climb a rock!... I think I'll leave work early today...

[jambassfunk]

I watch this video once every morning. Not sure why

[SnoggingYhoo]

who disliked it??????????????

[porejemplosara]

Amazing!

[toomanyfingusernames]

@jhediun Notice how I never said you were "wrong," I'm just trying to shed some nuance on this topic. Single pitch trad is statistically similar to single pitch sport as far as injury/death is concerned and the accident reports bare this out. Obviously what the man in this video is doing is much more dangerous than the sport version of the route--duh. However, these things are situational. I'm sure no one would argue that a poorly bolted route is "safe" just because it's sport.

[jhedlun]

@toomanyfingusernames A poorly bolted route can of course be dangerous but then it's the position of the clips rather than the strength of the bolt that's the issue. On trad routes, it's all up to the climbers judgment on each ascent that decides protection reliability. That said, I have nothing but respect for hardcore trad climbers and the video is awesome.

PS. The American Alpine Club is on the same page as I am regarding trad/sport dangers. Maybe they know what they're talking about?

[toomanyfingusernames]

@jhediun Why would I be upset? You reference climbing accidents in your area (which you didn't bother to even specify). Anecdotal evidence is no evidence at all. Most accidents in mountaineering occur due to slipping and falling, with less than 0.2% of deaths occurring from protection failure (2007) and 0.5% due to lightning strike. Many deaths in ANY kind of rock climbing are due to rappel error or rock fall. Statistically, most ER visits from climbing are due to bouldering.

[toomanyfingusernames]

@Jhedlun: Citation needed. Where's your proof of that statement? Oh right, you don't have any. We're just supposed to take your word for it because you obviously know what you're talking about.

[jhedlun]

@toomanyfingusernames Easy now, don't get upset. All major accidents but one in our area have been trad climbing accidents even though there are more sport climbers. The sport accident was many years ago and was a pure user error (did unclip from the wall when on top rope...). Do you mean that sport climbers often clip in on bolts with questionable strength/fastening? Modern routes are usually well bolted with little risk of hitting ground above 1st or 2nd bolt. Sport is safer. Trad is trad. 

[jhedlun]

So after 4 minutes he places the first "almost totally safe gear on the wall". No wonder trad-climbers are more likely to succumb to fatal falls than climbers using bolts.

[nermd]

wow what a climb, superb camera and EPIC runouts ... in short: a (climbing) video i like!

Props & Kudos for Arnaud!

[SnoggingYhoo]

if anyone every dislikes this.. they should be shot.

[gerlinooo]

amazing! you do really feel the difficulty and the danger more than other 9a/b videos

[GrahamSk8]

wow impressive, was on the edge of my seat the entire climb, ESPECIALLY when he asked his belayer to run down the hill so he dosnt bottom out... nice climb! The £40+ cams just left there for the next person, standard :)

[Mrtrinch]

Buenísimo



[surfclimbcycle]

That was awesome.

[bornfree03]

sick send man...those were some wicked runouts

[pancakepuddle]

EPIC! great vision! doing it clean because he CAN!

[fertlhuber]

one of the best climbing-clips I ever saw......

And Arnaud is a very nice and intelligent person.

[magnetsucker]

very inspiring! great climbing

[hstrymkr4]

Beautiful send! Beautiful video. Nice work!

[iblisss666]

grande !

[dlopezbMakina666]

ole tu p o y a !!

[d0novn]

bad ass

[wesleywt]

I hope one day I can call 7c easy.

[Fucky0ufag1]

@wesleywt the hardest climb i've ever done is 7b+ and i-ve been climbing for fucking 7 mounth

[wesleywt]

@Fucky0ufag1 I really don't give a shit. 

[jnygaard257]

Lvngthdrm!

[KetzalSterling]

Amazing video, crazy accent. I'm sorry but I have to ask...why in God's name would anybody bother to go through such idiotic measures to send a climb on natural pro? Is it to garner media attention? I guess you got that. It just seams so futile. Seems climbers that can't compete at Onda/Sharma levels are just pulling, what's best described as 'stunts' to get sponsor dollars.

If you want to cheat death, why not just solo? Half soloing is just idiotic. My opinion only...

[akdirtbag]

@KetzalSterling I'm sorry, but Onda/Sharma are not the be all and end all of climbing. Trad climbing is a different game which requires mental fortitude as well as physical strength. This isn't a stunt to get sponsors dollars, but beautiful demonstration of what trad climbing is all about. You must be in control both physically and mentally. Routes like this can be climbed without leaving ugly bolts there. Ketzal when is the last time you climbed anything above grade 14 on trad gear?

[beastofackworth]

@KetzalSterling your comment shows how little you understand about climbing and its disciplines.tbh i doubt ondra would have the head for something like this despite his ability and tbh its not as if arnaud petit is a punter,this guy climbed 8c before ondra had heard of climbing and now he has moved on to adventure climbing,which you obviously dont get.

for me this is the second most inspiring piece of climbign footage ive ever seen,brilliant video and i hope people keep pushing these boundaries

[fengpost]

run it out!!!

[logsmith2001]

Plaidman says: Nice job. You rock and so do Totem Cams.

[adrianwaj]

How does he extract all the equipment after the climb? Reclimb but belayed at the top, or abseil down?

[KaroKoenich]

@adrianwaj Most likely by abseiling, if no camera crew is hanging out all over the place already. I guess in this case, they mopped up after him :-). Brilliant climb and beautiful video, by the way.

[edubrownes]

Ahí va la hostia qué crack de pavo!! Súper todo, gracias!!

[dombackpack]

Incroyable!

[hahahamuthafucka]

fucking amazing

[OliGrounsell]

Talk about endurance, absolutely amazing!

[Saitame]

Super inspiring, superb effort !

[trentk90]

balls of steel. beautiful line, incredible rock, awesome camera angles

[hostli]

Amazing!!!

[ThePaklenica]

Great ascent, great camera, awesome. Congratulations!!

[BEALofficial]

Magic!! Congratulations Arnaud & Steph!!

[aimedoubleyou]

superbe !!!!!

[wmruys]

The best on youtube, for sure!!

[DesnivelVideos]

It seems very wrong. He don't play in a sports routes in a sport crag. If he fall and break a pocket with the cams.... faking, and the rest of us we can not do route.

[Twiiistan]

@DesnivelVideos

I think you're very wrong... Rethink your way of climbing man.

[bikeclochard]

@DesnivelVideos

ya but that's the point exactly: "IF he fell and broke a pocket...", but he didn't, so the route is unharmed, the ascent is incredible and we shouldn't hate on him now.

[martinleidebrant]

Awesome! Such an inspiring ascent, and superbly filmed!

[kmetvhribih]

hats off.

[jmbrown546]

Just plain awesome

[jarvoramas]

Thats some serious runout ... Good job , inspiring .

[DMJury22]

Beautifully executed. Some classic trad climbing at its best!

[krjhnsn]

nice work very cool looking climb

[bgorowski]

I have a ligament injury...after watching this ascent I can feel a real advance in regeneration and a rush for climbing :D Cheers from Poland to all climbing freaks! ;)

[ndtitanlady]

the craziest pro ive seen, but legitimate.

[eggynapalm]

SO rad

[kini86]

Props for this!! one of the best videos i´ve ever seen (and I saw a lot)

[RoboCustard]

Awesome footage of some amazing climbing!

[SurvivalRox]

Nice climb dude.....