How Not to Climb a Mountain | National Geographic

so this one time we’re trying to climb
middle palisade which is one of the
14,000 foot peaks in California with my
good friend and climbing partner Alex
Honnold we basically were very
ill-prepared we had read the description
of how to climb the mountain on our
honor phones and so we get to the base
of this like really big looking peak and
like that’s for sure you got to be it I
mean it’s like the biggest mountain here
we start heading up the peak and it’s
kind of vertical it’s getting kind of
hard I’m like huh don’t really remember
like the description of this route like
having such difficult climbing on it but
I’m like oh man we’re just a little off
route
at the summit of each of these Peaks
there’s a a summit register and so you
know we were assigning all the summit
registers and so we get up there and
we’re I guess that was awesome and we go
to a look at the summit register and
Alex opens it up and he’s like just
calling the wrong mountain tragedy just
still emotional recovering from factory
cry yeah it was a big bummer
and then like to make matters worse
we’re like oh well there’s the mountain
and we’re like looking out like and it’s
this huge like treacherous Ridge just
like just looks like death look death on
a stick we start out across this Ridge
and it is terrible it is the rock is
just peeling off like just like sheets
of paper you know it’s like one one
false move if you go off without rock
you’re dead we pick our way up get the
top of middle palisade it’s like 12
hours later I’m completely exhausted
more rich it was awful it was awful
yeah good times you should totally do it
you should get out there dry it’ll be
terrible