When Jordan Cannon fell near the end of a 5.13 pitch on Wet Lycra Nightmare (5.13d), the steepest big wall in the Yosemite Valley, he didn’t give up. At least not on his climbing partner, Sam Stroh. Moving slowly upwards the duo gave it their all, and the sun-baked day ended with Stroh becoming the 5th person to ever climb the elusive wall.
Next, it was Jordan’s turn to do it in his own style, free-climbing the iconic route over two days.
Featuring: Jordan Cannon, Sam Stroh, Alex Honnold
Director: Samuel Crossley
Filmed & Produced by: Samuel Crossley, Max Buschini
Edited By: Samuel Crossley, Max Buschini
Archival Photographers: Austin Siadak, Owen Bissell, Bill Hatcher, Chris Noble
Colored By: John Crossley
I've worked with a number of elite athletes and professionals in my time and always have to remember that they struggle just like the rest of us when they don't perform to the level they had hoped. What I appreciate is that the struggles, failures, re-attempts and all were kept in. In the time of social media where we only see everyone's best days, this kind of realism is greatly appreciated... thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Honestly, I think the thing I am most impressed with is how easy Jordan made that 13a off width chimne thing look.
that fall at 7:02 though 😮 dude almost had a granite sandwich for lunch. Seriously inches away from a life changing injury. Wear your helmet kids. Also: bad look for Sam to ditch his bud on the wall.
@@devinrogers4885 They did it as a project, that means falling very often and predictable. Its not a big whipper with leg catched behind the rope falling upside down... If you think, without a helmet touching the stone would cut your head in halfes immediatly, but with a helmet you can just smash your face (!) as hard as possible without injuries - youre wrong.
@@devinrogers4885i thought they said that sam got sick while he was up there. would like to give the guy the benefit of the doubt, since I’d be shitting myself up there and I’d want my belayer to not have their concentration hindered. I don’t know very much abt big wall tbf.
Same here. As hard as he thrashed on the roof, he smoothed the bomb bay. Also, compare his and Sam's foot work on the roof. Night and day difference.
@@jakob8741obviously you're gonna fall a lot on a project. I'm talking about this fall specifically where he literally almost smashed his face into the wall. Are you really trying to make a case against helmets right now?
Sleeping on a ledge like that, not harnessed or anything, was incredibly scary to watch for me 😱😱
It’s bigger than it looks
@@cannonjtcthat's what he said
@@cannonjtcI’ve slept there and would do it untethered, it’s angled the safe way, but! I wouldn’t have danced like a madman that close to the edge haha
15:00
Ya, I’ll have nightmares about that tonight.
He just lost a chunk of his shin bone? That's so gnarly haha how is he smiling?! What a great watch! Definitely held my breath every time someone was on the hideous taco part
Right?! That was hardly even mentioned. “Yeah, lost some bone in my leg, no biggie.”
@@Mark-fd3mg Seriously!!
Lol, it was definitely pretty gnarly, but surprisingly it didn’t hurt very much in the moment! I went to the medical clinic, they pulled out even more shards of my shin bone, stitched it up, and gave me a bunch of antibiotics. I had to take about 10 days off before I could climb again, but even still it took a long time to heal completely
@@cannonjtc Oof that sounds so painful!! I can't believe it only took 10 days to climb again! Sick video!!!
And they just gloss over that!
Sick!! Love how you overcame a serious mental and physical challenge Jordan. The boulder on that 13d pitch looks heinous. Well done. Sam is a beast, too, just dispatching that thing so quickly. Talented.
My man did the dyno static. Hell yeah. 😂
I tried the dyno a million times and was never able to stick it… had to find some weak tall guy beta 😅
@@cannonjtc You found the way to make it work for you-that's not weak, it's smart.
This is the best motivational video to boulder as a route climber
dude fr. im sending granite .11B/c and projecting .12a/b and am over here like fuck i need to start bouldering if i ever want to be a real stud on some hard .12s or even a .13 one day
Iconic chicken wing shot into the final offwidth
I feel like Sam bailed on his friend. And then “got sick” I don’t climb at this level… yet lol. But it doesn’t seem in the spirit of things
I just climbed the cables at half dome and that was enough thrill for this 52 year old, but I love watching this stuff. Totally rad…doesn’t seem possible people can do this. 100% respect to you guys.
Best scene: Sam taking a piss at 14:00 😂😂😂😂
love this so much. such a wonderful message and such sick shots !!
Great efforts on a really amazingly hard climb! Fantastic camera work and production - you all made a classic.
I pulled my own tendon just watching that push at 2:30 ❤
Absolutely LOVED this. Great music, great emotion and beautifully put together.
Thank you for sharing this story!
what an effort!! really beautiful filming and multitasking crew!! :)
Outstanding climbing, filming, editing, and music. The opening offwidth sequence is superb. Climb on!
Crushed it, congrats to everyone involved!!
Loved it!! Thanks for inspiring gents. Really gets me psyched to try that one day
Congrats Jordan and team!
Arc'teryx films with Jordan never miss!!!!
Love the process. All about the journey!!
What a great film. Excellent music score, cinematography and story. Props to Jordan for sticking with the objective and sending.
One of the best climbing short films. This was a 10/10.
This is really amazing. Great short film, nothing motivates me like watching things like this!
amazing footage and message
wow. what an amazing video. and that crux move is absolutely insane. watching that i feel like i would have pulled every muscle in my body
Well done! I couldn't imagine climbing anything harder than 11a in Yosemite. So cool to watch!
Great video, so realistic to how challenges can be overcome. Thank you
Awesome story-telling.
Brilliant effort
Great Job Jordan and Team 🎉
Sweet f'ing send Jordan! I was yelling VENGA the whole boulder problem. Thx for the inspiration
This is like my two favorite enormocast guests coming together for a great send
great work!
RIP Todd Skinner
Keep yo harnesses fresh!
Wow!! Outstanding video :)
Love the fight. Never give up.
These guys are crazy
Grandissimi,super tecnica, bellissima via!
What a great fight with the crux pitch!
That route looks so hard. Amazing climbing.
When Jordan is playing with a piece of his shin bone that just got chunked out, ahhhhhh!!
Incredible film ❤
Hell yeah Jordan! So sick dude
So strong! I love the be with The Process mentality. Something I couldn’t figure out until my 40s. I remember early 2000s doing a few big Whal routes up there and looking at that free line thinking it looked absolutely impossible. Nice jobs dudes!
really good. all of it.
felt so good watching him nail the crux
Beautiful video 👏🏾💯❤️
Congrats!!
Great send
Nice. They have to be fully coordinated and athletic to accomplish these climbs. TY to the camera person to capture some of these ascents. Very good.
Such good climbing the air chimney looks wild
Congratulaions!
Sick production
Another great film featuring Jordan. Seeing Sam getting spat out of the offwidth in the beginning is one of the most epic whips I've ever seen. Great job Sam and Jordon. Can't wait for the next big thing.
Yeah the indecision right before the whip was familiar 😮
Great struggle. Great story.
Such a magical place. Climbed the Tower a number of times in the late 70's and did Wet Denim Daydreams in 1980. It was A4 for us. My hat is off to the evolution of this generation.
yessss man, you had me sweating for you.... good effort and well done
wow - great film 🤘🏼🙏🏼
Superb ❤
hell yeah jordan! that is so rad
“Aight bye dude” little shit 😂
Great heart & try!
Mad props . Wow so mentally and physically strong . Climbing like this to the average Joe is insane . Thx for the video…. Great footage ….. was scared the whole way through . I’m very scared of heights 😅
Amazing 😮
Concept of longest known time is inspiring to me
Very cool video! 💪🏼
Awesome 🤩
That mantel at 2:40 looks brutal with the legs way out under you... Respect dude.
Full one arm press… it’s crazy!
This is amazing!
straight fire
Nice send Jordan (and Sam too of course 😁👍)
amazing
as someone who’s slept in a bivy and 50+ feet up in trees, that ledge looks comfy but restless
"Not that big" - Alex Honnald
Looks like they climbed in a studio
Awesome. Very well filmed!
Escalada dura movimentos delicados, e muita 💪 kmon 🤜
tremendous.
Taking out that piece of bone in mental
yay Jordan!!!
Done the West Face a few times as an Aid climb. It's a beautiful airy place and for my lazy self aid climbing the crux is hiking my butt up there to start the climb, so it's hard to imagine returning to the valley to sleep and hiking back up and jugging overhanging lines instead of just crashing on classic Ahwahnee ledge. (Where my partner and I took mushrooms on my first overnight wall) Ran into Honnold on the hike on a much later ascent. Great guy as usual but wearing a shirt looked more like a champion gamer than one of the greatest athletes of all history But he is! and kudos to anyone in the shape to climb the 5.13 granite pitches one on top of another. it's unimaginable
Sam didn’t stay for the full journey?? Come on man!
16:46 the PSAAAAT awaken the Sharma power - I'm telling ya
Just casually pulls a piece of bone from his shin lmao
u do realize what kept u behind? ur flawless choice of climbing partner. such a project has to be done together as a team, as brothers. when the juju´s not right, aint no flow. after the switch u basically rushed trough the pitches, beautiful climbing. the strongest muscle in climbing is your brain, only an empty glass is fillable.
Great effort, congrats! It's too bad that Sam bailed on you, but good climbing partners are hard to find.
what more impressive is sleeping on that ledge without harness
I've slept on Dinner Ledge (S. Face of Watkins) without a tie-in, but on anything smaller (e.g., Big Sandy or Ahwahnee or El Cap Tower, etc) I've stayed tied in. At 14:15 Jordan is like 800' off the talus. Don't slip!
I shouted "fighting" to myself16:23
Fight for me.👍💪 7:07
Nice video!! I hope you guys brush all these tickmarks afterwards
I definitely did! Because the wall is so steep, they would still be there if I didn’t!
❤
RIP Todd Skinner.
I've never seen an all-points-off dyno where you get to keep three points of contact!
That’s because I did it static 🤷🏻♂️
😂😂😂 yeah I was a little disappointed he was really hyping it up with that description
Rad.
Damn I wish I was good at climbing
Is it "normal" to sleep on a ledge with no protection? JFC - that was the scariest part of this whole vid.
Generally, no… but on a ledge as big as Ahwahnee (which is also slightly sloping into the wall), I didn’t think it was necessary
@@cannonjtc Wow - mad respect for the send and for having nerves of steel.