Stolby Style: Siberian Free Soloing

Climbers Jonathan Thesenga and Brittany Griffith are the first Americans to climb at Stolby, a central Siberian nature reserve, where the locals free solo en masse.

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[Visstas]

Good afternoon! I live in Krasnoyarsk and itself each days off I go there. I confirm, many(a lot of,much) person there goes, but is far from being all climbing. Basically people rise on the simple courses, not representing to serious danger. They do not demand rocky footwear and cords. Complex(difficult) courses many go with equipment - cords, обвязки, delays, carbines. The basic danger on Columns not absence of a cord, but insects, the spiders called "клещами", carrying fatal chronic diseases.

[enzomatic]

Oh boy, here goes one of those you say tomato I say tomahto...

How someone chooses to do what they love is no grounds to dismiss their intellegence, aptitude, etc.

look at some of the greatest soloist of our time, they knew the consequences of just one mistake. Look at Hersey, Osman, and Reardon. All of which are deceased but only one of them died climbing. I guess I respect everyone out there practicing their dialect of climbing. Don't hate, appreciate...

[mistahtut]

In soviet Russia, mountain climbs you!

[guyNbluejeans]

@placeboringnamehere A young Japanese girl sat on a barrier railing at Niagara Falls the day before yesterday, they're still looking for her body.

[placeboringnamehere]

@guyNbluejeans then go get a padded barrel and spend the rest of your life in it. I don't let fear of dying prevent me from living. Why tip-toe through life just to arrive safely at death? you can die safely in your house from a myriad of causes. and yes, climbing does increase your odds of an accident, but that is an individual's personal choice that no-one can make for them.

[magnetsucker]

that's jsut f.....n stupid shit, stupid russians.

Nothing else to say

Yeah Yeah all good, somebody dies.....normal

stupid

[austinjisakson]

You can't let the Soviets win. If the Soviets win, then God has lost...

[guyNbluejeans]

@jreg88 I like bringing God up because too many others don't bring Him up enough.

[jreg88]

@guyNbluejeans Why do you keep bringing up God? We EVOLVED from the great apes, who don't have tails but are still able to climb extremely well.

[guyNbluejeans]

@CarolSuemoo If God wanted us to climb like monkeys, He would have given us tails. Case closed.;-)

[CarolSuemoo]

@guyNbluejeans -Actually what this video (and unique climbing culture) shows is how totally natural climbing is for humans... maybe not with the kind of common sense we value, but why not "God-given"?

Interestingly enough, humans are actually the best primate climbers in the world...again, maybe not you or me, but the few who are climbing at the extreme are able,due to discipline and planning and training and perseverance, climb stuff no other apes or monkeys could. Now that's remarkable to me!