Marylin Manson - Iceclimbing

Bah, he is climbing with leashes! What a pussy!!

Very cool video!!! I'd have to agree with an earlier posting that the grade should be more in the 6 range and not 7. The grade has no bearing on if you soloed or not, it's only about the difficulty of the climbing. The warm temps are helping his effort. Regardless, I wouldn't solo it so it's very impressive. Beautiful line!!!

nice climb, but it leaves me wondering in what pansy-ass corner of the world would that be considered WI7+? looks more like a 6 to me, although i'd probably call it a 5+ if i were about to solo it.

post a video of you soloing this, tough guy

....VAYA GUEVOS!!

Here is what the problem is... They cut out the music for this artist. BUT they won't take out the music videos people are posting all over the place when they don't have the rights to post it.

Beat du bisch an held!

Even with screws and a belay he probably wouldnt get much reliable pro in that climb. Soloing ice is different than rock, each placement is meant to hold if everything else fails, he is also using leashes and will have a hell of a time slipping out of those. It is certainly very dangerous for him to solo this, especially on ice this chandeliered but it would also be very dangerous to lead it with protection. PLacing pro is also tiring and pumps you out and could add stress to those thin pillars.

I fully agree. From how deep is axes went into the ice I can say the ice is quite warm (as also implied by other parts of the video). Placing ice screws in this case is worse than nothing since, as you mention, it will draw prescios energy out of the climber without providing good protection unless placed every meter or so. So in this case - top rope or nothing :)