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Rock-Climbing China: A Drone Destroyed | Nat Geo Live


you’re climbing the natural wonders of
China everything you could hope for us a
climber is to be the first person in
something that incredible of that iconic
so when cars and I were discussing of a
team of climbers to bring and where to
go
cedar right why don’t you come up here
was the first on the list and that’s
really because cedar is kind of one of
those kind of all-around climbers that
you know when you’re climbing with cedar
the Rope goes up as well as Emily
Harrington who’s not here with us she’s
kind of known for her sport climbing
skills and now Mountain skills as well
as Keith Lozinski who did a lot of the
video clips that you’re about to see
tonight and our biggest thing with with
this and what Carson wanted Carson was
like I want to see you guys climb the
craziest formations you know above
ground in China so we did a lot of
research and one of the areas that we’re
all most excited about is an Shi Canyon
and that’s where we’re gonna start
I mean this place was like is fantastic
looking I mean this is you know one of
the craziest limestone formations I’ve
ever seen like super slender towers and
I you know we’re walking around there
and it looks like a wonderland we’re all
getting super excited and then we start
seeing these signs and we’re like you
know I’d like I know I had emailed with
everybody from the park and everybody
was like oh yeah permission no problem
it’s not gonna be a big deal and yeah
we’re walking around and not-so-positive
they gave us this piece of paper and
told us to sign it and here’s a Emily’s
description of what she thought she was
I don’t die and if you do we’re not
responsible basically and I have to sign
it and put my finger print totally legal
we were good to go and and there was a
couple stipulations with when we could
climb and that was mostly we could not
climb during we had hours of the park
yeah we had to be down by like 8:00 in
the morning yeah so basically we’re on
the dawn patrol waking up in the dark
every night
not optimum climbing times no not at all
yeah buddy having fun yet oh yeah you
know keeping the dream alive that’s your
that’s your rep so needless to say
suggests it was a little high and then
you know we’re climbing at night and and
in the dark which is normally fine but a
lot of this rock was really loose so it
was a little bit sketchy but at the end
of the day we were really having a good
time and I was really fun to work with
car sitting at almost shooting at all
documenting it all kind of we had radios
so we’re constantly constantly directing
us and directing this more more and then
he’d be like Musti share your t-shirt
you’re not right enough yeah that’s what
I’m saying
you can also see the quality of the
climbing there was super good good that
it was all vegetation yeah it’s like
just super super high quality hard like
hard to call that rock climbing yeah but
uh then Carsten came up on the wall what
do you think well it was amazing I mean
for me I would have never been able to
climb these towers I mean I’m a
technical climb another free climber
like cedar or Matt and well they were
fantastic riggers and well I was able to
make it up there and it’s it’s really a
incredible view from up there it’s it’s
just amazing to be so exposed on these
pillars
about 140 meters 400 feet high
incredible the Chinese always they
didn’t want to allow us to climb there
because they were afraid the pillars
could be knocked down all over yeah
today they’re like could fall over them
all no trust me I’m not causing anything
that’s gonna fall over
that was their bit that was their
biggest fear was that we were gonna
actually knock the towers
or like probably like what six or seven
hundred foot tower or something like
that yeah they were massive and so just
completely incredible and obviously a
great way to see these towers is with
drones so what happened here tell us
this is the drone story this is a
horrific story
well the drone story a drone went out of
control and I mean we we were in the
most beautiful landscape
I saw via video link how beautiful it
looks and I saw already what I could do
and and and and my plans were really big
and then it crashed after two flights so
it was horrible to lose all these
options at once and look how sad this
job looks that’s by the way the gimbal
was the camera just ripped off with the
drones flying in the air it does add
like a kind of uneasiness because it
could definitely catch your mules real
close and you know it can cut your rope
but huh or just chop you just like just
like blood everywhere but I hear ya oh
yeah I know it’s a great tool yeah great
the car seat was really psyched to use
it back in another away long shot
landscape yeah and here’s a little video
that a Keith cut while we read there
about the terrible drone crash
just wonder if someone have seen where
exactly the copter impacted oh I found
the copter I found the copter but it
doesn’t look awesome
the crazy thing about that is that Brad
fixed it it’s released Brad
I guess he needs that blow it was like a
pot of coffee later and just like in
like 24 hours of non-stop soldering and
like a heap somehow fix the it was
incredible it’s amazing that thing and
we got it up in the air again yeah yeah
which was a miracle it was America
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