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00:00 (upbeat music)
00:02 - When we realized that we could climb
00:22 across the underside of bridges.
00:24 That was like light bulb moment.
00:26 Bridges are made with cracks in them.
00:29 Perfect splitter.
00:30 - Maybe somewhere we could find
00:33 the mother bridge roof crack.
00:35 - Oli's going a little bit mad.
00:37 - Oh, oh my God.
00:40 Oh my God.
00:41 This is it.
00:42 I found it Pete.
00:43 - The dorm wall of bridges is like El Cap, but like that.
00:48 We think it's about two and a half thousand foot long.
00:51 Around 80 pictures.
00:53 - 80?
00:54 - 80, eight, zero.
00:55 - Whose idea was this?
00:57 - We just go ground up from the start back to back 513.
01:01 Multiple days of climbing.
01:02 - Death by 5,000 hand jabs.
01:04 - Sleeping up there.
01:06 - We got pizza.
01:08 - The dirt and the grime and the noise of traffic.
01:12 Everything hurts.
01:13 - Although it's ridiculous.
01:14 - Oh shit.
01:16 - What are they doing?
01:17 - And it's stupid.
01:18 - Please have turned up.
01:19 - Oh crikey.
01:20 - It's also a world-class climbing achievement.
01:22 - You going feet first today Pete?
01:24 - Biggest, most insane crack ever climbed.
01:28 - I have never seen something that hard.
01:36 Climbable by a human being.
01:40 Which is Charles.
01:43 - Oui monsieur.
01:44 - Charles is like a legend.
01:49 - He's the strongest climber in Fontainebleau.
01:51 One of the strongest in the world.
01:52 And he's climbing barefoot.
01:54 - What is this?
01:55 - This is freaking me out.
01:56 He's grabbing with his toes.
01:58 Nobody else has really done that.
02:00 - When you start climbing, people tell you,
02:02 all you need is a pair of climbing shoes.
02:05 Turns out it's wrong.
02:07 - Charles represents the spirit of bouldering.
02:12 The minimum of material.
02:14 - Doesn't even use a crash pad.
02:16 - You have to consider the danger.
02:18 - And all he's trying is the hardest projects.
02:21 It's like dude, why are you even trying them?
02:23 They're not possible.
02:25 - Gets boring to try something you're certain you can do.
02:29 - That's what it takes to push the limit of bouldering.
02:34 - Big moves.
02:35 Really shitty holds.
02:37 It's a project only for Charles.
02:40 - Just like this character that everyone wants to know about.
02:44 - What he leaves.
02:45 - This is my cave.
02:46 - What he eats.
02:48 - Collecting chestnuts for the winter.
02:50 - With this life, I don't need to work.
02:52 So I can just climb and do whatever I want.
02:56 Like make wine or singing.
02:59 I think it's important to question the obvious.
03:06 - The swarm is this iconic boulder problem.
03:11 10 years ago, no woman had done it
03:13 and no woman in the world had done B14 yet.
03:15 I wanted to shatter that glass ceiling.
03:19 And I posted on social media, big things to come.
03:22 But it ended up even bigger than I expected.
03:25 Years of public failure, self-loathing, self-doubt.
03:28 I mean, it broke me and forced me to face who I really was.
03:33 I had been hiding for so long.
03:37 Coming out was terrifying.
03:39 But for the first time in my life,
03:45 I felt like, oh, I can breathe, I can move.
03:48 I was floating.
03:49 Like I had been climbing my entire life
03:50 with a weight vest on.
03:51 - Flash for Alex Johnson, new overall leader.
03:54 - And always, always in the back of my mind,
03:56 the swarm was still out there.
03:58 Even as the person that I am now, I'm so afraid of it.
04:02 - Yeah.
04:03 Yeah, come on.
04:05 - But that's the core of what makes us climbers.
04:08 - Why?
04:09 Come on.
04:10 - You face all your demons head on.
04:12 - I like pain.
04:13 I like it a lot.
04:14 - Yes, come on.
04:17 Hold tight, grab it.
04:18 Yes, come on.
04:19 Hang everything you want.
04:20 Everything you got.
04:21 Come on.
04:22 Come on.
04:24 Come on, stay, stay, stay.
04:25 - The Cuddle is the continental divide ultimate link up.
04:30 - Trying to climb all the iconic peaks
04:32 in Rocky Mountain National Park in a single push.
04:34 - 20 plus thousand feet of elevation gain, like 35 miles.
04:39 - When Alex and I get together, we go huge.
04:41 - At this point, Tommy and I have done enough things together
04:43 that they're all terrible.
04:44 Or they're all amazing, depending how you look at it.
04:46 - But this whole idea actually came from Adam Stack.
04:49 Adam was my childhood best friend, this young crusher.
04:52 But then he moved to Florida.
04:54 - I put on 40 pounds, trying to like jumpstart my life again.
04:58 Called up Tommy with this crazy idea.
04:59 - How you feeling?
05:00 - I feel like I'm in a throw.
05:01 - Altitude getting to you?
05:02 - I think it's my partner.
05:04 I couldn't keep up with Tommy.
05:05 - So I had to call in the big gun.
05:07 - Superman Alex shows up.
05:11 I'm off the team now.
05:12 - When you're with Honnold,
05:13 you just keep going no matter what.
05:14 - All these movies, everyone's like,
05:15 oh, Alex is the sketchy one.
05:17 Tommy's not unsketchy, is all I'm saying.
05:20 Leading on the six mil static line,
05:22 it looks like a shoelace.
05:23 - Free soloing a thousand foot big wall
05:25 in our tennis shoes.
05:26 - Man, I think I would really love free soloing
05:28 if it wasn't dangerous.
05:28 - Oh, it's not.
05:30 - After the first seven or eight mountains,
05:31 things started to unravel.
05:33 - Oh boy.
05:34 - We have no food or headlamps or pants.
05:35 - If it's not windy tonight,
05:37 we could be okay without pants.
05:38 - Anytime you have to cuddle because you're so cold,
05:43 you're kind of bummed.
05:44 - Our only hope is Adam Stack.
05:46 Imagine that, the two best rock climbers in the world
05:49 need to be rescued.
05:50 - So here we go.
05:53 Trying to find my buddies.
05:55 Whoa.
05:56 - I was worried,
05:57 but also a little excited to see them suffer.
06:01 Look at this.
06:04 - It's actually a really beautiful frame.
06:08 I hope I win an Emmy for this.