Vertical Limit Guide to Climbing

[TheTrudgingTech]

Love it! Dynamic cam placements, "sticking it", Aahahahahahahahaaa!

[IC3M4NX]

Gotta work on my own dynamic cam placements.

[ohhey539]

the ending scene was the best lol

[TheAydam]

SHADDAP ANNIE!

[zeddjb]

lol..whatever...



[zorphias0]

and don't forget to blow your rape whistle when you see two climbers falling at you, just in case your partner didn't notice the situation

[MRCOLEUBER]

what the fuck is this?? hahah

[alteregoash]

so, why would you keep hanging on to your bag? Also, why would anyone, not even a trained climber, but just any rational person step on to a breaking chunk of snow? Also... ugh... nevermind.

[FireIceyKitten]

@alteregoash The bag had nitroglycerin in it and if you watch the movie, the explosion caused an avalanch and the guy didnt make it. And she went onto the edge to try to save the guy that just went for a sleigh ride over the cliff side. Why, would u just stand there and say sionara knowing when he and/or his pack hit rock bottom the snow is gonna wash you down too???

[alteregoash]

@FireIceyKitten First off, this is not a cartoon, avalanches are not certain to happen with every loud sound, but a standing on a breaking snow shelf is a certain way to fall. Third, that cliff was at least 900m down, the explosion would not have had much impact. Fourth, You don't hang out near edges if you think an avalanche is going to happen. That's like saying,"this plane looks like it's going down anyways, so I'm going to ride on the nose". 

[FireIceyKitten]

@alteregoash So u would just let him die? and where would u go if an avalanch did occur?? Its a movie every loud noise makes the terrible happen. Why take the chance of a boom if u can prevent it???

[alteregoash]

@FireIceyKitten Yes, you just let him die if the only way to save him puts you in a state of undue risk. That's the risk of going on an 8,000 meter peak, and every climber knows it. People can't save you (which is why the premise of the whole movie is ridiculous). You don't take almost certain risks to try and avoid the possible risk of an avalanche. She could have thrown a rope or really anything but that.

[touge242]

the movie is supposed to be funny, right?

[horyinfo]

Original film is perfect (unwanted) climbing parody. This shot - thumbs up 

[PhotonCherades]

This is hilarious! Thanks

[Mikkellima]

Did they first ascent the cliff?

seems like a normal ascent to me

[ulybaZZa]

Wow! This makes movies about computer hackers and kung-fu masters look super authentic!

[crjanow]

i wouldnt have just hit the ground like that

[Enaresbclimber]

Robin!

[usmc212]

"Breaks over, Roach. Lets go!"

[lemonsnlimes333]

this is hilarious

[gn0000t]

9:20 "Good luck, I'll see you on the far side," MW2

[1337shellc0der]

lol PUSH OFF THE ROPE U STUPID NOOB!

[Alpinstyle]

this is the best comedy film I have ever seen I went to see it  at the opening night , i left with a muscle-bound from all that laughter.

[shakeyfly]

I Just started 1 month ago ... indoor Rockwalling... INDOOR ROCKWALLING... and found this video and commentary to be hilarious... 

[EricCant0na]

Absolutely brilliant. Can't wait for Cliffhanger guide to climbing! Great work.

[Shegal1535]

4:45 DECK

6:28 2 PARTS; 1. why doesn't he drop the pack NOW instead of at 7:35 2. Drive the LONG end of your axe in babe and tie in!!!!

9:24 YOU ABSOLUTELY CANNOT RUN IN CRAMPONS!!!!

9:31 YOU JUST DISLOCATED BOTH SHOULDERS AND HYPER EXTENDED EVERY BIT OF YOUR ARM......GOOD JOB!

[garloish]

MY QUESTion is: they've go producer, money so why they didn't hire some expert?????? jesus

[ExileAdventure87]

2:55 His carabiners are all wrong. That's very dangerous. The gates should form an "X" when opened. Apparently, THEY are the amateurs at 12 o' clock!

[telekinovice]

LOL:d

[swams49]

I needed a good laugh today, thanks. Love the Narration



[salimleking]

The biggest joke about climbing...

[CodyGriffy]

I just love word burning fires.

[MrGlacierNova]

6:25 why not just set up an anchor?

[3gfirefighter]

@MrGlacierNova because that makes sense



[inepta1]

9 people actually climb like this!

[MrOwenWG]

Why do they attach themselves to the rope via a krab and not tie in like normal people? Also the solution to their dilemma is this: the dad and bro are heavy enough for them to pull her back up her end of the rope and back to the lone cam, maybe that's what they did one daddy took one for the kids

[saaqwe]

This is physically impossible. At 25 kN, the cam should stay there, not only the last one but also the previous ones. This movie is trying to induce the idea that the climbing is dangerous because there is a inherent risk in securing the climber to the wall. The huge majority of death accidents in climbing are due to human mistakes not due to equipment failure...Sorry guys, this is fake...

[CowboyKeN19]

I bitch and complain everytime i watch this movie i should have done this video long ago~ Cracks my shit up!

[Steedrider]

I love how in such a situation, Annie doesn't have the slightes sign of sweatstains on under her armpits...

[ColleGabriele]

that is so nato to do when climbing

[MrTimAway]

Teresa Lisbon!

[bloodswetandgears]

This is exactly how my mom imagines climbing is like

[albyuke]

@bloodswetandgears and my grandma also

[Castyo]

@bloodswetandgears lol :) my mom too 

[bloodswetandgears]

OMG I thought eiger sanction was bad! This is amazing!

[srfrr]

hahahahaha this is funny...

[AMiGR667]

All the likes in the world wouldn't be enough. :-P

[EvilLamas]

Who needs arm sockets anyway?!

[sh8pes]

epic dyno at the end, he obviously had his bowl of epicness in the morning

[Dazubersoldat]

Worst movie ever... 2 hours i will never get back

[NonstopRam]

9:25 So thats where Modern Warfare 2 got it from.

[tisaacso3625]

WHere can I get some of those cams?

[Tackett231]

@tisaacso3625

The store

[Akandos]

VL is the most shit movie ever for a climber to watch...

[ma70killer]

why do they always have to bring short anchor with them anyway?

[djeremic71]

i saw metolious brand on failing cam hahaha

[BeepimajeepBeep]

This is a video on how to view hollywood videos as fake and not as real life stuff!

Genius man! Genius! I'll now* not climb like this~

[TonivomBananenboot]

First i thougth it is comedy

[fenelpor]

Qué hace aquí Pococerebrosilvester?'

[dean0waterz]

this vid and the comments just make climbers sound a bunch of uptight, boring bastards who don't know how to relax and just enjoy a hollywood climbing movie with bill paxton being a bad guy, without trying to tell the world how much they really know about climbing, by the way. jeez.

[madzappa]

Not sure if you would find amateurs on that wall, but I just saw 5 of them, lol.

[colliric]

man, that last one is great!

[cybermarsactual]

Despite the overall cheesyness of this movie, that scene was the most disturbing thing. Cut the rope, holy crap man!

[lagerbaer]

Standard action movies are inaccurate and wrong about a number of things, including climbing, guns, computers, airplanes, cars and lots of other stuff. I don't care, they just want to entertain. BUT: When the core of your movie is topic XYZ, please, portray XYZ accurately. Vertical Limit is for climbing what "Hackers" is for computers...

[colliric]

@lagerbaer

Would you prefer they look to Renny Harlin's mostly

"ropeless" classic?

it's just a good movie.

[Benhorton83]

Oh, and a cam will hold 5 people falling, but not 3 people hanging.

[wagggggg]

When free climbing you should know all partys that are on the wall especially when above you

[HosteDenis]

@wagggggg bs

[wagggggg]

@HosteDenis

?

[HosteDenis]

@wagggggg No, you don't need to know all partys on the wall. Not even when they're above you. I often go free climbing and very often it's just me and my buddy and we don't know the other people climbing at the crag. And I don't need to know them, not even when they're climbing above me. What you're doing now is exactly what the guy who made this video is against, and what he made the video for. You're spraying about safety, but you (in this case) don't know what you're talking about.

[wagggggg]

@HosteDenis lol alrighty than man sounds like you don't like because its safe to do I hear Tommy Caldwell and his wife the other months mention every person by name and last name all eight people, in groups of two, but whats a better reason to not go along with just being sure about big wall climbing

[HosteDenis]

@wagggggg I'm not saying it's a bad thing to know all the other people on the wall, I'm just saying it isn't a necessity and not at all worth the effort of getting to know them before climbing...

[wagggggg]

@HosteDenis

well with all the hours spent on the wall, it would be a nice thing to just wave if eye contact was made at least, without wind its very quite you should say hello with the wave

[swampfoxgolf]

hahhaha this is hilarious

[karleens91]

Love the ending :)

[nick191088]

i have found that climbers love to pick at movies that have anything to do with climbing, yet i don't really hear about army guys or cops etc picking at action movies. It's because they're all over the top nonsence that could only happen in movies, so just enjoy them as an escape from reality.

[MikeyTheBones]

@nick191088 action movies used to have infinite ammo. No one would ever reload just keep shooting and shooting. Now most action movies are pretty spot on with bullet counts on guns. There are many other examples of change like this in action movies because people complained about the lack of reality. Everyone is picky not just climbers.

[dixxjamm]

Nice clip and advice, but I will say this:I'm not even into climbing and even I realized that this movie is pretty far-fetched and it did somehow ruined the viewing for me. However, it is a movie and it's supposed to entertain (though I'll admit that the criticism is necessary) AND I've been with climbers (as a guest,not climbing myself) and I have to say that I found it pretty boring, which the film isn't, if only for laughs and some good acting.

[MrLyckegard]

Never laughed this much in the library!

[JirkaBery]

She is SEXY!!

[AdamJP23]

Good job that last one wasn't a Dragon Cam ;)



[AdamJP23]

Good job that last one wasn't a Dragon Cam ;)

[Tarzan07330]

o my darwin!! dynamic cam placement for the win!!! lol

[mondorescue]

I almost died laughing so hard. The dynamic cam placement scene totally rocked. It must be a new French free climbing technique that I wasn't aware.

[jsnyder85]

What the fuck are 'word burning fires'?

[StargateMunky]

I think this video tends to overstate certian points here and over-analyse a lot of others.

[SkiAdventurer]

Like the SLCU they use as well. Not designed to be effective used with gloves, but who would worry about that when climbing at high altitudes; great video

[SkiAdventurer]

Like the active SLCU they use as well. Not designed to be effective used with gloves, but who would think of that when climbing at high altitudes

[HitmonTom]

Wheres next instructional video? haha

This was really good.

[gianthairyvagina]

Chris O'Donnell is pretty girly. Not macho at all.

[spoonsarespoony]

I also like how in the movie he informs everybody in base camp that there's not just snow on K2, but rock and ice too and he's not sure if they have the equipment to handle the terrain *face palm*

[id1337x]

The movie would be really boring if none if this stuff happened though and everybody got by safely, meh

[omatsu123]

I love this! This is really educational. Maybe the best lesson I have ever learned.

The price of being stupid! THANKS!

[WestCoastSwinger]

"Something to learn: dynamic cam placements" :)

[1138thz]

Every time I see this I admire how she set up that belay up to zipper like that a little bit more. Screw those cowardly Metoulis equalizers and Mammut Shock Absorbers. I'll bet that gal has axel grease in her chalk bag like captain Granitic.

[georgefor28]

free soloing with gear!!! 10.0 to tihis video

[1960markN]

....textbook self-arrest technique from 5:31 to 6:08.---37 seconds!!!!

[1960markN]

Thanks for making this, it was hilarious. If you had taken the time to show every stupid thing, your video would have been exactly as long as the movie

[braydenjones1]

HAHA Awesome man thanks for making this its mint! Cant wait to get up there and try out my new techniques!

[ClearSkyline]

2:11. Wouldnt happen. Arent those things rated at over 21 kn? Besides that, if the cam was the right size, weight would have only strengthened its grip. Im a newbie,so maybe im wrong though.

[N3rd133t]

To be honest in real life despite cutting the rope they probably would have all died anyway.

[SuperTamponBandit]

lmfao!!! 4:43

[MrTerrorkiller]

never, EVER, walk upright on an overhang like that. ever see polar bears? when on thin ice they lie down and spread their weight out. do that next time.

[ninjasuzuki]

so did they make this film to turn people off about mountain climbing? it sure seems that way.

[subasurf]

I love the sprinting, in crampons, on rocks to jump a ledge....at high altitude. Motherfucker must be fit.

[chriisuu]

I guess this is the next level

[Jolinator]

shit made me lul

[ropegun13]

Awesome video!!!!

[MrFvdb]

'check your safety!' 'Oh thanks dad, I now know I was freeclimbing all the time!' Lolwut?

[thorblai]

Can't wait for the Cliffhanger version!

[ryker666]

That last part with Cliffhanger ws genius! HAHA!!! "free solo WITH GEAR!!!!" ROFLMAO!!!!!

[hemming57]

Why didn't they just tell the director to "cut."

[sinky101]

'Check your safety!'

'What? I'm sorry I've literally no idea what you mean.'

[davervr6]

I also lovve the whistle blowing from the father.

[davervr6]

we got amadures are 12 o'clock! Check your safety! ahah what does that even mean?

[ShadesOfRapture]

I can only imagine how many gas station attendants watch movies with their friends and say "oh, dude, check that out. He rang out the action hero and you totally could see he didn't bother to hit the fuel grade choice or even hit enter at the total purchase. Epic fail!!!"

And the rest of us think, "I really couldn't care less. It's just a movie."

[jdenz1977]

@ShadesOfRapture

Shot...im a climber and yes its technically crap, but who cares its just a movie! What, are the actors going to spend 8 years getting there IFMGA certs before they start filming?

[bakedwithrealchez]

some one sucks at setting ancors

[roberttreboranita]

i think that some people forget that this is just a movie for entertainment of the movie going and watching viewers!!

[iGrizzliestBear]

Is it just me or does it look like an aerial shot at 3:43? I mean... according to that scene it looks like 5,000 feet up.

[DarkKnightBob1o1]

LOL I think most of these criticisms really don't account for the fact that they need SFX to have certain events take place.

I mean seriously this is the most Rational part of the film.

[mranracing222k]

wooww talk about holly wood. i never seen the movie butt after watching this i dont wanna waist my time. i wonder what non climbers think of it. and how much of the bulls hit they believe.

[damonachey]

This video almost makes me want to see it more. It's so bad it's like the 'spaceballs' of climbing movies.

[mahdogzbite]

All this time I thought the dad in this movie was Kevin Spacey.

[NollieSk8]

The fall at the end was so epic, that it would rip your arms off lol

[CFeatherbottom]

I laughed so hard I cried.

"Climbing Physics: Ropes can shear off a two bolt anchor... but won't cut through a human body" so brilliant.

[0409995]

its looks like bolt are made from butter and ancore from plastic :)

[nomad8k]

haha ....I haven't seen anything pathetic and funny at the same time

[KurtClimbs]

After viewing your video I think I'm ready to load up with the cams and nitro and go try my hand at climbing!

[pentrala01]

88.

[gondwanalon]

When the old man hit the desert floor he would have made a much bigger SPLAT which would have generated a small pink cloud of blood and body fluid particles.

[michdudeada]

The clip at the end with the jump. That would literally rip off your arms!

[michdudeada]

Nitroglycerin would not explode in a ball of fire. It would be one incredibly fast explosion with huge amounts of white smoke and that is it.

[jdenz1977]

@michdudeada

Thats why movie makers use deisel because it looks more impressive than most other things exploding! How lame would your little explanation look on a big screen!

[michdudeada]

@jdenz1977 I know, still prefer it though.

[yckchow]

hmmm....I am all for dynamic cam placement but she didn't pull back the cam at 8:30 :P

[crashdown45]

haha, at the start he's leading and on top rope, wtf

what kind of person makes a movie about climbing when he doesn't know ANYTHING about climbing

[ElBombastico883]

@crashdown45 Hollywood does

[joebudding]

Love it!!

[Timbucktu]

Questions: Is it proper etiquette to yell, "Rock" and you cut the rope? Would you yell, "Belay off!" first?

[KurtClimbs]

@Timbucktu You would only yell belay off first if you are cutting the rope mid climb

[crashdown45]

@Timbucktu "rock" would be the absolute most important thing to yell. yell it over and over and over.

[Vinnygil]

lmao

[HaroldPlatypus]

Lesson number 6, don't ever go climbing with anyone in this movie.

[1138thz]

I agree!! Especially in the case of the dumber than dirt little bimbo in the monument valley segment of VL. But I admire her pluck and daring in forgoing the cowardly procedure of installing fully equalized multi directional belay anchors (safety is over rated). She is obviously the Kwisatz Haderach of style, ethics, technique, rout finding and PMS no wonder she was selected as the leader for a K-2 expedition. Captain Granitic has nothing on this dynamic wench.

[burleighmt]

Classic!  Nice job!

[DawidDiduch]

Pojebany film

[Malpinist]

Now that is a great way to show people how to climb! It is like watching myth busters.

[Zackoattacko]

4:38

BEST CLOSE UP EVER

[pentrala01]

ZIVOTNI STIL JACI OD SRTI.

[stevereed1]

The other learning from this video is that while beginners use the break hand to belay, core people use the climber-side hand to belay and also pull down on the climber as demonstrated at 0:38 and 0:45 (and other places)

[zlobber]

I am always the guy with the knife.

Also, I'm looking for a partner to climb :)

[kerbjumpercleban]

same m8 where bouts u from?

[kangaroopie]

LOL dynamic cam placement FTW!

[menonthemovemovie]

Great scenes, footage and effects

[WheelQuestions]

I don't know anything about climbing but this is still hilarious! :)

[eurekafresh]

haha im for sure going to start practicing my dynamic cam placements and crimping with snow gloves on! for my next adventure!

[nutellaontoast]

My exploding bolts don't get nearly that much kick. I wonder where they got theirs from...

[aikidophreak]

Priceless, those comments added in are perfect ^__^