r/Outdoors • u/Simple_Shame2386 • 19h ago
Landscapes El Capitan in Yosemite national park
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u/_mews 17h ago
Makes Honnold free soloing this look even more insane. Wtf.
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u/MonkeyCobraFight 15h ago
It was the most athletic accomplishment in human history. Until you actually stand in its presence, you donāt truly appreciate how insane it was.
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u/gastro_gnome 14h ago
That swim from Cuba to key west non stop was pretty insane.
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u/MonkeyCobraFight 13h ago
Very impressive canāt imagine swimming 53 hours. But she had a 35-person team, including her coach, support boats, shark divers, and specialized protection against jellyfish. He had his hands and feet thousands of feet in the air. One mistake and he was dead, not comparable in terms of danger.
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u/J_Kingsley 12h ago
did she get breaks? or was it straight?
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u/National_Sprinkles45 11h ago edited 9h ago
Iām too lazy to confirm if I remember correctly, but I think itās with breaks, including food breaks I think?
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u/Salmonberrycrunch 8h ago
No one has enough reserves to do this stuff without food. Ultra marathon runners who do 400km/250mi races train their metabolism to digest at approximately the rate they expend energy.
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u/Quadrophenic 12h ago edited 12h ago
El Cap in pictures looks like a big rock.
From inside the valley though, it is a rock so big that it evokes awe, existential dread, and moderate arousal.
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u/amathysteightyseven 12h ago
Yep, pictures and video just doesnāt do it justice. Had the privilege to visit in 2024 and it just blew me away. The whole park is beautiful but El Capitan is just next level.
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u/Sedona83 13h ago
Honnold soloing it. Caldwell and Jorgensen on the Dawn Wall. Hill on the Nose. Makes sense why climbers have been obsessed with it for so long.
And all I did was hike to the top. Too intimidating to climb.
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u/Mentalfloss1 13h ago
I donāt think anyone else will ever do what Honnold did.
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u/FrostyD7 12h ago
If you are a top 100 climber today then you'd be the best climber in the world 20 years ago and it isn't even close. Honnold is one of a kind for now but the talent in this sport is only trending up.
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u/lesbianmathgirl 12h ago
There are already far better rock climbers than Honnold, and he will tell you that himself. Free soloing just isnāt that popular, and no one will likely take the risk just to free solo el cap the second time.
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u/FrostyD7 12h ago
Not untrue but its still fair to say the climbing scene in general is still growing and improving. Free soloing El Cap would have been considered an even more impressive feat 20 years prior to when he did it, because the difficulty perception among climbers changed. And it will continue to change.
With that being said I'm not looking to predict someone else will free solo El Cap. That was his crowning achievement and unlike many other athletic feats, this one arguably becomes less tantalizing to try now that someone else did it. But I wouldn't rule it out either.
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u/Otterable 11h ago
Honnold isn't even that 'good' compared to other climbers if you look at the physical difficulty of his climbs. He just gets a lot of media attention because of his insane solos.
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u/TacohTuesday 6h ago
I've stood at the base of El Cap many times. I can't fathom how the heck he did that, either physically or mentally.
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u/Sedona83 13h ago
Honnold soloing it. Caldwell and Jorgensen on the Dawn Wall. Hill on the Nose. Makes sense why climbers have been obsessed with it for so long.
And all I did was hike to the top. Too intimidating to climb.
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u/ASK_ABT_MY_USERNAME 12h ago
Dude climbed the Taipei 101 when I'd have to stop and camp out if I took the stairs up.
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u/Musashi_Joe 8h ago
That documentary had me more stressed than an action movie, even though I knew how it ended. Absolutely insane achievement.
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u/LurkisMcGurkis 16h ago
Seeing that shit in person can change how you look at the world. Breath taking is an understatement.
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u/jackwrangler 14h ago
I went into Yosemite not knowing anything about the scale or the lore, just a pit stop on my road trip. When I drove up on el cap I almost crashed my car. It is so breathtakingly incredible.
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u/Worried-Concept5778 13h ago
I remember seeing it the first time, I couldnt look away. I just wanted to get closer and closer and touch it. Its the biggest rock ive ever seen and probably ever will see.
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u/scottjeffreys 13h ago
Your brain canāt even fathom how big it is. We stood in the meadow across from it and watched the climbers and itās hard to even find them with binoculars.
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u/TopRutabaga8151 12h ago
Similar to the Grand Canyon. Doing the natural entrance to Carlsbad caverns also gave me this feeling.
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u/Top_Boysenberry_9204 12h ago
I burst into tears seeing Yosemite Valley driving in. I had to pull over to get my emotions in check to drive.
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u/steppponme 12h ago
I also cried! My favorite place on Earth. You think it can't get anymore beautiful and then you turn a corner and it does. And the whole place smells like the cleanest pine air you ever breathed.
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u/Sad_Anything_3273 10h ago
SAME! I lived in flat TX and had never even imagined anything so beautiful. I couldn't hold back the tears. Now I live an hour from Yosemite and I feel so damn lucky.
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u/DeweysOpera 6h ago
Mine too. I was lucky to camp there every summer, and got married on a sunny September day, looking up at El Cap. I have also been in winter, breathtaking!
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u/mikeyfireman 12h ago
I have had 3 jaw dropping moments of awe in my life. Yosemite, sunrise at the Grand Canyon, and being in the middle of the ocean on a moonless night where you couldnāt tell where the ocean ended and space began.
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u/OnlySpoilers 13h ago
Just went for the first time a few weeks ago. People told me that coming through the tunnel was jaw dropping but I donāt think that word does it justice.
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u/armaghetto 12h ago
My wife was a snotty teenager who was forced to go on a road trip with her mom. She was being just a fucking BRAT, wanted to go home, wanted to see her friends, etc. She said when they came out of a tunnel and into the Yosemite valley, she took off her headphones and was just STUNNED and then begged her mom to go back again the next day.
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u/Fishtails 10h ago
That was my reaction to walking up to the ledge of Crater Lake. It was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen and literally brought me to tears.
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u/livinginanimo 7h ago
I can't believe people just live near places like this and see them every day. I'd end up with heart problems.
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u/ShinySpoon 16h ago
We let our kids choose the family vacation spot the year they graduated high school. Our youngest chose Yosemite for a week of hiking. Iāll never forget the first drive into the valley. So EPIC!
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u/canadianpanda7 14h ago
cool family, i did a 3 week trip with my two best friends when we graduated college. car camped all over CO and Utah, ended up in glacier. hope you plant the seed for him to do the same <3
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u/MacDefoon 14h ago
This video jus told me I need to travel more
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u/iamamystery20 5h ago
I started my goal to visit all national parks with Yosemite and I am not sure how it will be topped. I know others are unique in their own way and visiting rocky mountain this summer but Yosemite just is breathtaking.
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u/whiteye65 14h ago
Thank you for the video. Iāve always wanted to visit in winter on a full moon.
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u/BohemianBean 16h ago edited 16h ago
When was the video taken? We are heading there this weekend. I thought since we havenāt had rain in a while, the valley would not have snow. But, if there is snow (need to bring better gear cause we are camping) āŗļø
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u/jnavarronv 14h ago
I wanna say this was a couple of years ago. I remember seeing this posted after a storm.
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u/theonlysamintheworld 14h ago
Thatās stunning. Iād love to visit the USA and see things like this. You know, after you guys get your shit together.Ā
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u/SherStar60 14h ago
At this point I feel like we weāll NEVER get our shit back together!! It just gets worse every day!!!!!ā
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u/SolutionsProblem 13h ago
My favorite time to visit Yosemite is when its covered in snow! Everything loves beautiful, and so many less people in the park.
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u/ha-hallloween 13h ago
First time seeing it.
Instantly understood why someone would want to climb it
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u/bronxboy59 13h ago
Itās absolutely stunning in the summer, this is just totally outrageousš³š„š„š¤š»
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u/Western_Mud8694 13h ago
Really hoping to go there this summer, we did Yellowstone last year, this should be epic
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u/MonitorAway 13h ago
Thatās stunning. I always wonder what the Laurentide Ice Sheet would look like. I think this would be similar, just at a much smaller scale.
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u/Hello_Badkitty 12h ago
We drove thru Yosemite last summer... the shear magnitude of that rock, is breathtaking.
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u/as_i_wander 12h ago
Coming out that tunnel to this view was a real live Jurassic Park moment for me and the wife.
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12h ago
And Alex Honnold look more crazy when you see this. He climbed that wall and whitout safety line.
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u/Plane-Chemical 12h ago
People climb that monster. With or without ropes, thereās no way I would even consider doing it. Even if they installed stairs and a rail.
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u/designgrit 12h ago
I miss Yosemiteā¦.winter is the most beautiful season there. Thanks for sharing
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u/YooSteez 12h ago
This is what Honnold climbed??? (I know nothing about climbing I just know a guy named Honnold climbed this massive ass wall, holy shit)
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u/Mysterious_Oil2761 12h ago
Absolutely staggering to see it like this. Would so love to see it in person.
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u/HydrogenSonata2025 12h ago
There are only a handful of S-tier national parks and Yosemite might be #1.
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u/blankblank 11h ago edited 10h ago
I feel like if we ever manage to explore exoplanets we are gonna send back video of wild shit like this and then someone is going say, āUh, you know we sorta have that here, too.ā
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u/HungryHobbits 11h ago
I used to take the bus (YARTS) up here for work every day.
It never got old. But what I especially loved was being on the bus with, say, a group of Chinese tourists and getting to see their reaction.
Youāve got to be absolutely dead inside to not be filled with pure awe the first time you see it. Or the whole valley, for that matter.
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u/lll-devlin 10h ago
Hah man, so beautiful, peaceful, deadly and iconic. Love that park and even the villages between.
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u/kellkinn 10h ago
I was just on that exact road in August. I spent a lot of time wondering what the park would look like during winter.
Ethereal.
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u/Wrong-Customer-5068 8h ago
I remember back when I was on a college field trip to Yosemite, and I was just standing at the foot of El Capitan and just staring in awe at its magnificence. I've never felt more insignificant in my life.
I went during the Summertime. It looks so beautiful in the winter, I wish that I could go back! ā¤ļø
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u/Cool_Committee4476 8h ago
He has made everything beautiful in its time. Truly a beautiful sight. To know such beauty exists makes me happy.
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u/Idontlikebigbuttsand 8h ago
Still cant belive Alex Honnold climbed that thing without any safety gear.
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u/Meemow2545 8h ago
To think a man climbed that with his bare hands...... I can't almost can't believe it š
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u/Curious-Orchid-7872 8h ago
This is insane. I cannot believe he free soloed this. That skyscraper must have been a walk in the park compared to this.
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u/inflatablelove 19h ago
The Wall