Have you ever watched Free Solo and Daybreak Wall? Did you take pleasure in them however want there have been extra jokes about ingesting beer and falling to an premature dying?
If that’s the case, then The Lengthy Wall — a brisk 20-minute documentary about arguably the longest technical rock climb on this planet — has loads of humor to enhance the epic process undertaken by two dirtbag BFFs. Ben Wilbur and Drew Herder convey old-school attraction to this buddy comedy concerning the first steady ascent of Nice Wall of China, a 9,000-foot traverse at New York’s iconic Shawangunks (or simply Gunks, to the locals).
The route had solely been climbed twice earlier than — however in each instances, the earlier climbers returned to the bottom every night time. Wilbur and Herder, nevertheless, handle to tug off a steady ship, climbing 67 pitches in just below 37 hours. For perspective, the route’s 9,200 ft of sideways climbing is the same as about three ascents of Yosemite’s El Capitan.
So how do these beer-chugging climbers handle it? Principally, they go for dangerous runouts of rope and fixed hazard of turning into a “New York pancake.”
“Normally, it’s good to be the follower for among the spicy pitches,” Herder says within the movie. “However on a traverse like this, each ends are sharp.”
Don’t miss this one, climbing junkies!
Runtime: 21 minutes
