Tyler Karow, Imanol Amundarain, and Cedar Christensen pulled off a team free ascent of the South African Route on the East face of the Central Tower of Paine in Patagonia, Chile in January 2023. Despite their typical vigilance for going light, they opted to splurge on quite a few luxuries including excess amounts of wine and a mini cast iron oven that they used to bake muffins, empanadas, and pizzas daily while living in portaledges. They spent a total of ten days on the wall after an initial two days of fixing ropes from the ground.
This 4000 foot line was first climbed in 1974 by a South African team and first freed by Sean Villnueva O'Driscoll, Nico Favrese, and Ben Ditto in 2009 at a grade of 5.12c. This was the second free ascent of the route.
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It always amazes me with the amount of equipment some climbers bring with them, especially on a multiple day climb. Making pizza, cakes, quiche, cupcakes, and whatever else is top notch.
Alex Honnold just turns up with a Snickers bar.
@@Thaitanium73 no chalk. Only snickers.
@@Thaitanium73 yeah but getting a gigantic piece of cheese out of your backpack is...style.
@@danb4282 no bar
Haul sack, pulleys, six bottles of wine, and left over pizza.
We live in the greatest time ever for movies. This is better than any documentary out there! No annoying editing. Just the passage of time.
There isn’t a shot that’s held for longer than 10 seconds without being cut. It’s edited to hell like a 40 minute TikTok on adderall.
I totally disagree. The entire movie consists of 2-5 second clips,which makes it a nightmare to try and focus on. A person just begins to study a scene and BAM...it gets ripped away from you. It gets annoying really fast. I could barely watch a minute. I think they're heavily influenced by modern tv and cinema which does the same crap. They think their gonna grab ya by being real flashy with quick changes and moving camera angles....turns out to be more of a distraction than anything. Its hard for me to watch anything new because of this. anyone notice....i knew the differences between the different THERE's...i knew which one to use, and when, grammar wise, and how to spell it. Its hard to believe thats a damn rare thing these days, along with the different two's. If 75 million people do a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
@@benjohnston7983 Dude, chill out man. The video is just the journal of a climber. The fact that he filmed anything at all is amazing.
@@benjohnston7983 Your life must be miserable and amazing at the same time. Miserable because you're direly upset over a video so that tells me you get direly upset over anything. Amazing potentially if this is the only thing you can complain about.
@@joeyferrell6102No, the OOP needs to watch some actual documentaries. This video is fine if you are interested in climbing, but there are much better actual mountaineering documentaries out there. Some are even freely available on KZhead.
Going climbing always take a dude who knows arts and crafts and cooking. Absolute legendary team xD
my hands sweat like crazy just watching this, incredible video
Moms spaghetti
Hauling 20 liters of water plus gear up a mountain. That's some serious strength and stamina. Formidable!
Hiking is also my favorite, which makes me feel the embrace of nature. Do you also like traveling?
I can appreciate the dedication, fortitude and experience. Lotta gear in an unforgiving environment.📿🧎♂️💫🙏❤️🔥🔥🤷🙃👍👙🏖️🌊☀️
@@Athena1688да люблю, самое главное не больше одного раза в день в походе)
Then hauling 20L of shit back down 🤙🏻👏🏻👏🏻
@@JonSnow-hr6iw more like 3-5L at most.
Very gastronomic, my bowels evacuated several times watching this.
:))))
😂😂
Entonces no mires a Alex Hamonnd!!
Gastro-atomic
Man I would be tumbling down lol 🤣
Thank you algorithm for showing me this. Huge respect. I can never figure out how they can keep track of all the ropes they are using, plus they are 3 person in a tent, hanging on the mountain as if it was a family camping trip to the lake, eating muffins and cheese. Every now and then I love to go into the woods and hiking, but I'm afraid of heights but can imagine the adrenaline and reward climbing those small gaps must be something out of this world. Awesome footage!
Hands down this has to be one of the most insane climbing videos out there on the internet. kudos to team!
there are many freehand videos with no ropes or clamps, just straight balls of steel
@@DosDonts101yep true, but this one is my first time watching such a thing.
I will never understand the people that feel the need to do this. But it's super impressive. Spending days climbing. Hauling not just yourself, but a bunch of supplies up. Building camps hanging off the sides of cliffs. Cooking, drinking wine and sleeping in the camps. Amazing. I'm surprised the climbing gear is that strong and even if you fall, you're okay.
Все будет в порядке до поры до времени.
Seems pretty torturous but the adrenaline high is probably insane
@@zacharysherry2910 BIBLE calls us all to be real, sober minded souls, who live holy lives on earth. BIBLE calls nor expect nobody to be: - religious of any kind - monk - nun Bible calls us to give out RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT, no to keep our mouth shut and support everything with blind eyes and deaf ears. See no evil, speak no evil and hear no evil - that old saying, it belongs to masons, am I right again? The vow of silence of theirs. SOULS, dare to read and study BIBLE (KJV) and search about FREEMASONRY.
@@flex3065 try english u fool
They're likely a bunch of trust fund kids with nothing better to do. Normal people don't exactly have the luxury to take time off work to go mountain climbing in Africa.
I am absolutely terrified of heights, so it is complete testament to you guys, your skills, your determination, relaxed nature and camaraderie, plus top level cooking in swinging tents, that made me watch all of this with sweaty palms and a huge level of respect for you three men.
While watching time to time I was in panic even without being there 🤣
Yeah, we are all scared of heights to an extent. Its part of our natural good instincts to have a healthy respect for, and fear of what can hurt or kill is.. The main hardest challenge in rock climbing , is not physical strength like youd think. Its learning to control your mind, and training yourself to be calm and focused , in intense , fearful , physically draining situations - You have to learn how to channel the adrenaline, and use it to your advantage/ to give you strength , focus, and energy (as opposed to panicing , confusion, and freezing up). As you train to climb, you get better and better at staying calm and focusing in scary , intense situations. Including you get better at overcoming fear of heights , which is a challenge for many climbers.
They are simply insane
Your fear of heights is rational, heights kill 100% of people who are attacked by them
And you don't know if it will take 6,000 pounds of force, 600 pounds, or 6 pounds of force to break loose any one of those rocks.
Now that's proper climbing! my heart was in my mouth throughout this video. You guys must be extremely fit and strong and highly intelligent to understand how to sort out all those ropes! What a fantastic film! Thank you
Videos like this amaze me . We are all human beings , of the same species and design but some of us are clearly running very different operating systems. Unbelievably impressive.
no, we are not all human beings
@@jdsartre9520 we are all human benis
Your video brings back great memories. I climbed this route in January 2012 with my friend Callum. We also spent 10 days or so on the wall. It was the most life-changing experience of my whole life. Proud send guys!
LIAR
Hey if i may ask, how come these guys had no pain in lower bottom arm ( below the wrist ) or whatever it's called.. i did some wall climbing for the first time in my life 3 days ago and i STILL can't squeeze my firsts hard, my muscles hurt so much but it's a bit better now. As a guy who is A+ student at physical education at school, i must say CLIMBING is really tough. Does your muscles get used to it or did i just climb using a wrong technique? My arms feel like popeye the sailor and it's been 4 days almost :( AND I ONLY CLIMBED FOR 1 HOUR
@@DirtyFan2 YOURE NOT CONDITIONED THATS WHY
What do you mean? I am in a good condition. Do you mean i am not in a good condition to climb walls / mountains ( talking about arm muscles )?@@leelunk8235
@@DirtyFan2same as running, you get used to it, but still had to take some days off to rest
Still the very best climbing channel on youtube!
Argentina is such a beautiful place...loved to go there sometime...
@@YOSOYLADISCOloved means you already did it. It’s love* Ps, not trying to be an arse just helping 👍🏻
@@happychappy27เขายังไม่ได้ทำ
I'm gonna hang from this comment. I'm from Chile and altought I like extreme sports I don't like people coming to my country and going to places that are unique to us and places that don't even us touch. This wasn't so nice at all 14:19, why don't you go elsewhere(your country) and destroy nature?, you also left the mountain full of holes, this is a place that shouldn't be intervened. Not sure if it legal or not (I'm gonna find out) to do this climbing there but I don't really like it, this is a very unique place for us. I also don't want this place to become a new everest where there's trash and dead people.
Hey if i may ask, how come these guys had no pain in lower bottom arm ( below the wrist ) or whatever it's called.. i did some wall climbing for the first time in my life 3 days ago and i STILL can't squeeze my firsts hard, my muscles hurt so much but it's a bit better now. As a guy who is A+ student at physical education at school, i must say CLIMBING is really tough. Does your muscles get used to it or did i just climb using a wrong technique? My arms feel like popeye the sailor and it's been 4 days almost :( AND I ONLY CLIMBED FOR 1 HOUR
This camping is different...Love it🤩
What an amazing 👏 climbing experience ❤. Such a massive climb 😍, thanks for sharing 👍. Greetings from England 🇬🇧 Simon and Beth ❤👋
I dont know how i came across this channel but i watched this entire video and it has gave me inspiration to follow in your footsteps. Sometimes you think things are impossible to achieve but with hard work and dedication a person can do the unimaginable. I just want to let all three of you know that i can now make muffins, popcorn and pizza so keep the content coming i cant wait for the next video so i can continue reaching new heights and cook things i could have never imagined.
😂😂😂😂😂
you got us in the first half, not gonna lie
next video maybe you'll learn how to make yerbamate
Damn and you listen to 90 rock... What a catch! Take my thumbs up.
Nice
At last a climbing film without music and crappy film editing. The raw footage films are much better as they let the adventures do the talking. Thanks for posting.
Makes me feel like backpacking in the mountains on the regular trail is a chill time.
Torres del Paine is one of the most beautiful spots in Chile, just getting to the lake is amazing.
This is INSANE. I never knew that people pitched tents on literal cracks above vertical drops. My hands and feet are sweating like crazy watching this.
lotta lunatics out there
The worst thing is not making it to the top in a day when you didn’t pack sleeping gear. I had to sleep in my harness hanging from the rope once because I was too exhausted to keep climbing and hadn’t brought the portaledge
@@j_akae_6982 fuuuuuuuuuck that
@@j_akae_6982 the worst thing is that you guys risk your lives for such silly stunts and get surprised when you get plunged
@@BarcelonaMariaMafia I wasn’t surprised. It’s something you expect to happen at some point. I accept the risks because to me the reward is so much greater. For a lot of us the cliffs are a place that calls to us and brings us peace. It takes away our stress and gives us a place to prove ourselves to ourselves. When I started climbing in dangerous, big wall conditions, all of a sudden all of the things that were normally stressful just weren’t anymore because my life wasn’t on the line in those situations. I don’t climb because it’s a silly stunt. I climb because I feel like I have to and because embracing the challenges and struggles up there makes me a better version of myself
Man this was so epic. I did not expect to watch this whole video but what a journey! You guys are truly living your best lives.
Hey if i may ask, how come these guys had no pain in lower bottom arm ( below the wrist ) or whatever it's called.. i did some wall climbing for the first time in my life 3 days ago and i STILL can't squeeze my firsts hard, my muscles hurt so much but it's a bit better now. As a guy who is A+ student at physical education at school, i must say CLIMBING is really tough. Does your muscles get used to it or did i just climb using a wrong technique? My arms feel like popeye the sailor and it's been 4 days almost :( AND I ONLY CLIMBED FOR 1 HOUR
@@DirtyFan2 Years and years of practice. These guys have been doing this their entire lives. Just keep at it!
@@DirtyFan2 don't overdo it when you first start. Have fun climbing 1 - 2 times a week. After a month or so your forearm will start to adapt and you will be able to slowly increase your frequency of climbing.
@@DirtyFan2 Climbing is very forearm intensive, just keep at it and don't go past your limit. Your body will adapt pretty quickly.
Oh maaaan it's been a long time since i posted this comment haha. I have no longer pain when i climb on my muscles, it was a one time thing really.. but my new issue is cuts and wounds of my fingers. Ever since i started 2 months ago, i still have wounds and cuts on my fingers. I usually climb for 2-3 hours every 2nd week on fridays, but still my wounds don't want to heal properly. The skin goes off from my fingers every time i climb. It's been like a week since i last time climbed and damn my fingers are still wounded up. Idk what to do with this issue, i am the only guy at the climbing studio who keeps getting cuts. @@tuxido4913
This is absolutely amazing
Massive respect to you guys
Absolutely staggering footage - for a non-mountaineer, difficult to watch in parts! Thanks for sharing your climb, that was incredible to watch. Your food on the wall was excellent! All the best from Scotland guys 🙂
Hey if i may ask, how come these guys had no pain in lower bottom arm ( below the wrist ) or whatever it's called.. i did some wall climbing for the first time in my life 3 days ago and i STILL can't squeeze my firsts hard, my muscles hurt so much but it's a bit better now. As a guy who is A+ student at physical education at school, i must say CLIMBING is really tough. Does your muscles get used to it or did i just climb using a wrong technique? My arms feel like popeye the sailor and it's been 4 days almost :( AND I ONLY CLIMBED FOR 1 HOUR
@@DirtyFan2 You're putting a lot of strain on muscles in your arm that dont get a lot of strain in normal life, or in normal work out routines. Like any muscle, it gets used to the strain of course! But yeah, the first few weeks can be insane, feeling parts of your arm that you didn't know could be tired or stretched.
@@DirtyFan2good technique helps, climb with your feet not your hands
The most beautiful mountaineering video I have watched so far: the spirit of adventure and the camaraderie of this group of 3 adventurers is truly inspiring. To see on the big screen, the images are magnificent.
Hey if i may ask, how come these guys had no pain in lower bottom arm ( below the wrist ) or whatever it's called.. i did some wall climbing for the first time in my life 3 days ago and i STILL can't squeeze my firsts hard, my muscles hurt so much but it's a bit better now. As a guy who is A+ student at physical education at school, i must say CLIMBING is really tough. Does your muscles get used to it or did i just climb using a wrong technique? My arms feel like popeye the sailor and it's been 4 days almost :( AND I ONLY CLIMBED FOR 1 HOUR
👏👏👏🙏
they have years upon years of practice, it gets easier but never easy @@DirtyFan2
Just had the best Sunday morning watching this when it randomly popped up in my feed. Thank you for letting us be a part of your journey! Love and peace
Dude imagine when he pulled them rocks out the whole cliff face just fell off 🤯
34:03 damn the transition go crazy, we need a mini-series on big wall cooking with Imanol
I can’t tell you how stoked I was to hear you say 5 pitches in a day is pretty good. My partner and I have always climbed with all the weight of the ledge, wine, extra water etc. 5 pitches a day with hauling seemed to be our average with the Yos rain, thunder and lightning midday storm. I think we did 7 the day we topped out after our only haul pulley axle bent so bad the wheel didnt spin. We were down so low on food thinking we’d be on the wall no more than 4ish days and with that weather every day we were on the wall, it turned out to be six total. Couple rough days for an epic story for decades. Awesome send and great video as always! Cheers fellas!
I don’t know if I could sleep well hanging off the side of a rock wall thousands of feet up. Wow, you guys Rock!!
My dream, Patagonia...I'll definitely go someday. I enjoyed the video
This was easily the best climbing video I've ever seen ❤️👏
I don't climb but I always look forward to a new video from you. Great content!
Thank you so much for the sharing !
amazing journey... thanks for sharing
Eating popcorn, drinking wine and listening to FKJ while suspended God knows how high off the ground is top tier big ball behaviour. Amazing stuff and I'm not even into climbing, this was a totally random suggestion by the algorithm.
One of the best big wall videos I have seen so far. Love this "raw" content vibe, incredible effort and this huge spoon of funny madness. Love it.
That was amazing! Thanks for sharing.
I'm only doing climbing indoor in France. But guys ... Your trip is insane. I really enjoyed to see this video. Thank you !
Now that's proper climbing! 👌 my heart was in my mouth throughout this video. You guys must be extremely fit and strong and highly intelligent to understand how to sort out all those ropes! What a fantastic film! Thank you 😊
Patagonia is amazing, prime candidate for one of the most beautiful mountain ranges in the world
What an incredible view. Awesome experience. Thank you for sharing.
great climbing with friend and cooking.
Tyler, congratulations on bagging the second ascent! A feat indeed. Quality video as always.
cannot believe how hard ya'll went with the food tho, while free climbing on Torre del Paine!! BOSS
EXCELLENT video .... Thanks guys
wow!!! this is seriously one of the craziest climbs ive ever seen!!!
As somone who has never climbed anything his my life, 31:00 looks so amazing and terrifying at the same time. Awesome video!
beautiful adventure, gotta say this must be one of the best climbing films ive ever seen.
That was awesome. Thank you.
The view up there is amazing.
Nice job on the ascent! Giving us great climbing vids as always. Thanks.
Tyler and team: It’s really like being there-watching your videos. You add all the little things that are important. So well done! Another thing-can you believe that route was done IN 1974!!!! Super badass
Respect to you guys, that was crazy and amazing!!
I'm always amazed at the amount of things you bring with you
always a good sense of scale and effort in Tyler's videos 👏
Wow. Best one yet. Thanks so much for making the extra effort to film your adventure and share it with us. I especially appreciate the footage of the falls--nothing white-washed here, where super-humans cruise virgin rock with no apparent effort!--it's ten times more inspirational to get a sense for how hard this stuff really is. Thanks too for being so explicit about your environmental efforts. The culinary aspect deserves its own independent comment! ;-) I'd put this video up against any other climbing film out there; Jimmy Chin's shaking in his TX4s. Thanks again...
Esto no tiene riesgos, tienen cuerdas x doquier!! Escalada riesgosas son las de Alex Haminnd.-
@@user-xb6um1vp7g usar una cuerda no elimina el riesgo
beautiful, thanks
stunning work
Love the understated competence and wacky humour...
This is amazing. I was at this place last January. It was a 2 week trip between Argentina and Chile, I did the hike to the base of the mountains that you guys climbed and it was awesome, you guys are the best by carrying all this gear and seeing this amazing views from all the way up there
You guys are awesome!
What a climbing film! thank you so much for documenting your adventure and sharing it with us!
thank you Tyler for taking us on this amazing journey with you
Stunning. You guys are a pleasure to watch and an inspiration. Keep climbing! Love from Ireland!
What a walk. Thank you for the video, it make my hands sweat.
You guys a nuts!!!
Insane content as always, thank you so much !
Tyler, your videos are amazing! Thank you for sharing your adventures.
Just amazing!!
All of you have absolutely dumbfounded me. The emotions of fear, curiosity, and pride is just wow. BRAVO!!!!
I fucking love this so much. You guys are mad. Thanks for letting us be a part of this. Stay safe :)
wow man this video was incredible! Please never stop making these videos. I can't imagine how much work went into it.
Simply amazing, so beautiful.
Größter Respekt für die Art wie ihr klettert, wunderbar, danke!!!☮☮☮
Been watching your stuff for a while and this is by far my favorite. Beautiful setting, sick moves, and huge big wall whips! Watching those rocks fall while you guys were cleaning is soooo satisfying
This is absolutely amazing…. You are taking us to primordial places. Really sets the fact we are but small parts of something much larger.
This is a one of a kind video. without the bravery, courage and determination from these guys we'd truly never see such spectacular views. I know I certainly wouldn't dare to something like this. For you guys to post this video is amazing! Much love to everyone!
Not about being daring as much as you and I probably don't have the physical ability to do this... Or the money
Si esto te impresiona, mira a Álex Hamonnd.-
How lucky you guys are to be making these phenomenal memories for your later years. I used to climb, but nothing like this. I've always wanted to camp overnight in one of those climbing tents. What an amazing experience it must be. So jealous!!!
Without a doubt the best channel! Stoked to see you got recognition from Patagonia!
I'm not even sure how this showed up on my feed but props to you guys. My YT universe has expanded. Thanks for taking us along and allowing us to enjoy the views, cuisine, atmosphere, and fraternity.
this is outstanding. you guys are crazy
i will watch anything you guys make. i love how kind you are with each other
There is NO WAY THIS VIDEO HAS ONLY 20 LIKES!!!! I CRIED WHEN YOU GUYS REACHED THE TOP ✨💖✨💖✨ ABSOLUTELY BEYOND PHENOMENAL TO WITNESS... What it must be to have your talent and spirit!!! Wow!!!! Thank you for taking the time to capture all this!!!
37,000 now :D
Wow! I can only ever dream of doing something as amazing as this. Congrats.
I have to say this is one of the greatest things I’ve ever seen you guys are true men in the arena 👏
WOW!! Great climb, views and friends too!
kudos for that many attempts on the enduro pitch, tyler. you rule. stoked to have crossed paths.
Wow. As a climber myself I´ve seen much stuff on youtube over years, but THIS is the most impressive video suggestion I´ve ever had. Nice job and great team, looking forward to watch your other videos!
No hay riesgo, riesgoso es lo de Alex Hamonnd!!
You guys are something else...Well done lads.
Lucky with the weather? Beautiful climb! Glad you didn't run out of wine! :)
Watching these climbing and mountaineering videos is amazing to me . Just watching you guys climb these massive monsters just never ceases to grab my attention.
Congrats guys. You really seemed to handle yourselves well up there. well done.
omg you guys are awasome!!!
You guys rock! 😂 Thanks for sharing the video and for combining great skill, equipment and taste for a good food :) simply a good role model
You three are at ease on the rock wall like you are the part of the wall. GREAT. So confident and so professional, and environment friendly.
Babe wake up, a new Tyler Karow video just dropped
To whom? Your doggo?
"Oh why did I have to marry a dork"
@@NickRangerwatch it, he’s racking my sister.
@@-Stop-it I'm sure you thought that would be some kinda flex.
Don’t wake me up to give me anxiety
your videos are so much fun to watch! cheers!
That was awesomely fellas!!! Hell yea! Thanks for sharing with us. I am jealous of the camp chef! Lol