here’s a little video of cedar on the
summit he was he was pretty sure that he
was like the man in China after he was
like the first person to stand on this
tower you know credible and he was like
I am a big deal in China he was like
really stoked on being a big deal in
China and as it turns out he was
actually kind of big in China he really
was proportionately large fortunately
Lars it was um
I mean yeah I was just I mean look at
that we got to be the first people to
stand on that you know quite possibly
the only people ever to stand on that
because of the restrictions of National
Park I mean to me that’s like everything
you could hope for us a climber is to be
the first person to stand on something
that incredible in that iconic and just
to like kind of talk about some of the
climbing up there a little bit it was it
was really really dangerous and loose
there wasn’t a lot of protection for
people who are familiar with climbing
you know we were climbing traditionally
placing cams in the rock and this is you
know limestone is really terrible for
that style of climbing because there’s
not just doesn’t offer a lot of points
for protection so it was pretty serious
at one point I was like about to like
fall on a ledge and I pulled off this
giant block and I was like kind of did
one of those were you like I mean you’re
like no and then you’re like then you
have this huge block you it’s a me they
don’t want to drop it and then you’re
like and then I was just did one of
these I was little ha
and then I was like went then I was like
Betty are you mine and you know we
summited who were super stoked we were
relieved because obviously that’s like
one of the most incredible places that
you’re ever gonna see on the planet a
karst geography of China is really
something special and then it was time
to move on because we had four areas
that we wanted to visit and we arrived
here and in Carson Lee this amazing
something and either he’s all we got to
get in the air I’m like you’re gonna put
that drone back up in there dude
all the perspectives and all this stuff
and and I don’t know what did you think
when you arrived there I mean for rock
climbers but it must be like a paradise
also for me visually I mean this is like
knife blades out of the ground and and
really edges absolutely amazing so
incredible in an incredible area but we
but I have to admit this really is an
unreal place they call this the stone
forest and you can totally see why and
just to thank 200 300 million years ago
was an ancient shallow seabed and that
through erosion corrosion just the magic
of time it became this surreal landscape
and you know and this was like coral
these were like coral beds and to think
that you’re basically climbing on the
the skeletons of like 200 million year
old you know life forms is totally cool
and surreal one of the one of the
coolest things about being in the Stone
Forest was we started interacting with
locals a little bit more and wildlife as
you can see that was a little scary
sometimes um in the Stone Forest
you know all the locals would come up
like this guy he was really excited and
he had some good stuff had some good
stuff clearly and uh was was just like
you know really fascinated with what we
were doing you know and they are just
going along doing their thing harvesting
corn and yeah it was just really cool to
see
the one of the other crazy things about
the stone forest was it was kind of the
first time that we got to do like kind
of bouldering climbing so the stone
forest these formations really offered
cool technical difficult moves
oh yeah Maddie Maddie this is the
hardest climb of the trip he like did a
tunnel through this um this hole here
and he actually stripped most of the
flesh off his stomach I was trying to
impress Carsten with my caving scrolling
yeah he’s all I love the color but the
next area that we traveled to was
yangshuo moon Hill one of the first
places that sport climbing was
established in China and moon Hill is a
kind of an interesting thing because
there’s all these steps built to the
base of noon moon hill and they were
built for Nixon because he was the first
American president I believe to visit
China so they kind of wanted to build
him something to show you know the
natural wonders of China
well another really crazy thing about
moon Hill was it was the first time we
ever saw locals climbing there and there
are some incredibly talented Chinese
climbers who are coming up in that scene
it’s definitely the epicenter of sport
climbing in China natural arches are
just so wild because they’re basically
collapsed caves is that correct Carsten
actually yes yes it’s a huge cave which
just eroded away you have maybe a tunnel
and the tunnel gets smaller and smaller
and eventually a bridge is just remained
yeah it was definitely an interesting
scene at the base
got to get your a bomb ow yeah Obama
shirts yeah that’s so quality uh uh this
was Emily’s last day she decided to get
her feet cleaned she had to leave the
trip a little bit early and then cedar
Carson myself and Keith journeyed on to
get to this is the great arch in get to
and it’s truly one of the most
incredible things I’ve ever seen
this is one of the most incredible cave
systems in the world as well as one of
the most incredible natural arches in
the world you can see that bottom arch
down there it actually goes in it
actually this is a very Miao chamber
situated so it’s by wall you know the
biggest chamber in the world so it’s a
really special place is you can see this
lower tunnel there’s actually a river
that runs through this and then it drops
down deep into one of these huge
chambers and just goes who knows where
and it’s really one of the most radical
things I’ve ever seen and so we started
just wander around and check it out one
of the really unique things about this
arch system is that every morning the
Sun just shines perfectly through it to
create cast this incredible beam of
light and it’s it’s really otherworldly
it’s super unique it’s super beautiful
and the other thing about this is that
is the scale this thing is massive huge
the height of that light beam is
probably at least 4 or 500 feet tall at
this at a smallest point there as it
shoots do that that archway so that to
climb all the way from the bottom of the
arch at the top is probably like seven
eight hundred feet its massive it’s a
huge monolithic arch probably one of the
top largest arches in the world we
started to just kind of cruise around
and check it out and I noticed that
there was a lot of a construction going
on the Chinese are really they’re like
oh we’ve got this great national
treasure how can we make it more
accessible and how can we get more
tourism coming in here and stuff which
is I understand is a wonderful thing but
when you see something like this I find
it a little discouraging I’m like really
do you really need a glass elevator to
take you from the bottom
shop to the top and there’s been a big
backlash here a lot of climbers have
created this petition basically trying
to stop this because they’re they’re
actually going to put a hotel up
basically inside of the upper arch but
at the same time we were there to climb
and up there and that main art
it was just incredible you’re looking
around at all these possibilities for
climbing and we saw this one line that
really stood out that went from bomb to
top right out the belly of the arch all
the way up to the very top of the cliff
and followed this really radical line of
stalactites and tufas you can see that’s
actually like a melted to fowax
formation I’m grabbing there you know so
what a unique feature we kind of have
like a lot of these photos that just
portray just how overhanging and and
bizarre the climbing is the climbing was
super three-dimensional yeah the most
three-dimensional climbing I’ve ever
done like you could see here and I don’t
even know how to describe it like Carson
is almost parallel with me looking in
you know like his ropes go up here and
he’s like looking straight at me through
these caves like it’s almost like you’re
like swinging swimming you know you’re
like going from one CELAC tight to the
next like you’re not necessarily
climbing like you would normally climb
with your feet below you like your feet
are below you except you’re like turning
around and just bear hugging a
stalactite and like when I say do your
hedges at one point out yeah kind of
like I was just like hey just kind of
like did like one of these that one yeah
all right I got it and like when I say
bear hugging I mean like fully wrapping
your legs like around and hugging these
tufas for dear life because you know
your forearms are starting to get tired
but you could you know literally wrap
your legs all the way around it and lock
your legs and you know rest your upper
body all right so we are headed up to
the high point of this amazing route and
as you can see it is insanely steep
we’re going up to fix lines right now to
check out the last pitch and I mean it
is it’s almost nauseatingly least it’s
like I mean there’s the Rope going up
there’s Maddy hanging tough in the poor
ledge there’s the ground
there’s my feet oh yeah
extended selfie there oh yeah keeping
pledge really good about the extended
selfie cedar thank you in our form
you
summit he was he was pretty sure that he
was like the man in China after he was
like the first person to stand on this
tower you know credible and he was like
I am a big deal in China he was like
really stoked on being a big deal in
China and as it turns out he was
actually kind of big in China he really
was proportionately large fortunately
Lars it was um
I mean yeah I was just I mean look at
that we got to be the first people to
stand on that you know quite possibly
the only people ever to stand on that
because of the restrictions of National
Park I mean to me that’s like everything
you could hope for us a climber is to be
the first person to stand on something
that incredible in that iconic and just
to like kind of talk about some of the
climbing up there a little bit it was it
was really really dangerous and loose
there wasn’t a lot of protection for
people who are familiar with climbing
you know we were climbing traditionally
placing cams in the rock and this is you
know limestone is really terrible for
that style of climbing because there’s
not just doesn’t offer a lot of points
for protection so it was pretty serious
at one point I was like about to like
fall on a ledge and I pulled off this
giant block and I was like kind of did
one of those were you like I mean you’re
like no and then you’re like then you
have this huge block you it’s a me they
don’t want to drop it and then you’re
like and then I was just did one of
these I was little ha
and then I was like went then I was like
Betty are you mine and you know we
summited who were super stoked we were
relieved because obviously that’s like
one of the most incredible places that
you’re ever gonna see on the planet a
karst geography of China is really
something special and then it was time
to move on because we had four areas
that we wanted to visit and we arrived
here and in Carson Lee this amazing
something and either he’s all we got to
get in the air I’m like you’re gonna put
that drone back up in there dude
all the perspectives and all this stuff
and and I don’t know what did you think
when you arrived there I mean for rock
climbers but it must be like a paradise
also for me visually I mean this is like
knife blades out of the ground and and
really edges absolutely amazing so
incredible in an incredible area but we
but I have to admit this really is an
unreal place they call this the stone
forest and you can totally see why and
just to thank 200 300 million years ago
was an ancient shallow seabed and that
through erosion corrosion just the magic
of time it became this surreal landscape
and you know and this was like coral
these were like coral beds and to think
that you’re basically climbing on the
the skeletons of like 200 million year
old you know life forms is totally cool
and surreal one of the one of the
coolest things about being in the Stone
Forest was we started interacting with
locals a little bit more and wildlife as
you can see that was a little scary
sometimes um in the Stone Forest
you know all the locals would come up
like this guy he was really excited and
he had some good stuff had some good
stuff clearly and uh was was just like
you know really fascinated with what we
were doing you know and they are just
going along doing their thing harvesting
corn and yeah it was just really cool to
see
the one of the other crazy things about
the stone forest was it was kind of the
first time that we got to do like kind
of bouldering climbing so the stone
forest these formations really offered
cool technical difficult moves
oh yeah Maddie Maddie this is the
hardest climb of the trip he like did a
tunnel through this um this hole here
and he actually stripped most of the
flesh off his stomach I was trying to
impress Carsten with my caving scrolling
yeah he’s all I love the color but the
next area that we traveled to was
yangshuo moon Hill one of the first
places that sport climbing was
established in China and moon Hill is a
kind of an interesting thing because
there’s all these steps built to the
base of noon moon hill and they were
built for Nixon because he was the first
American president I believe to visit
China so they kind of wanted to build
him something to show you know the
natural wonders of China
well another really crazy thing about
moon Hill was it was the first time we
ever saw locals climbing there and there
are some incredibly talented Chinese
climbers who are coming up in that scene
it’s definitely the epicenter of sport
climbing in China natural arches are
just so wild because they’re basically
collapsed caves is that correct Carsten
actually yes yes it’s a huge cave which
just eroded away you have maybe a tunnel
and the tunnel gets smaller and smaller
and eventually a bridge is just remained
yeah it was definitely an interesting
scene at the base
got to get your a bomb ow yeah Obama
shirts yeah that’s so quality uh uh this
was Emily’s last day she decided to get
her feet cleaned she had to leave the
trip a little bit early and then cedar
Carson myself and Keith journeyed on to
get to this is the great arch in get to
and it’s truly one of the most
incredible things I’ve ever seen
this is one of the most incredible cave
systems in the world as well as one of
the most incredible natural arches in
the world you can see that bottom arch
down there it actually goes in it
actually this is a very Miao chamber
situated so it’s by wall you know the
biggest chamber in the world so it’s a
really special place is you can see this
lower tunnel there’s actually a river
that runs through this and then it drops
down deep into one of these huge
chambers and just goes who knows where
and it’s really one of the most radical
things I’ve ever seen and so we started
just wander around and check it out one
of the really unique things about this
arch system is that every morning the
Sun just shines perfectly through it to
create cast this incredible beam of
light and it’s it’s really otherworldly
it’s super unique it’s super beautiful
and the other thing about this is that
is the scale this thing is massive huge
the height of that light beam is
probably at least 4 or 500 feet tall at
this at a smallest point there as it
shoots do that that archway so that to
climb all the way from the bottom of the
arch at the top is probably like seven
eight hundred feet its massive it’s a
huge monolithic arch probably one of the
top largest arches in the world we
started to just kind of cruise around
and check it out and I noticed that
there was a lot of a construction going
on the Chinese are really they’re like
oh we’ve got this great national
treasure how can we make it more
accessible and how can we get more
tourism coming in here and stuff which
is I understand is a wonderful thing but
when you see something like this I find
it a little discouraging I’m like really
do you really need a glass elevator to
take you from the bottom
shop to the top and there’s been a big
backlash here a lot of climbers have
created this petition basically trying
to stop this because they’re they’re
actually going to put a hotel up
basically inside of the upper arch but
at the same time we were there to climb
and up there and that main art
it was just incredible you’re looking
around at all these possibilities for
climbing and we saw this one line that
really stood out that went from bomb to
top right out the belly of the arch all
the way up to the very top of the cliff
and followed this really radical line of
stalactites and tufas you can see that’s
actually like a melted to fowax
formation I’m grabbing there you know so
what a unique feature we kind of have
like a lot of these photos that just
portray just how overhanging and and
bizarre the climbing is the climbing was
super three-dimensional yeah the most
three-dimensional climbing I’ve ever
done like you could see here and I don’t
even know how to describe it like Carson
is almost parallel with me looking in
you know like his ropes go up here and
he’s like looking straight at me through
these caves like it’s almost like you’re
like swinging swimming you know you’re
like going from one CELAC tight to the
next like you’re not necessarily
climbing like you would normally climb
with your feet below you like your feet
are below you except you’re like turning
around and just bear hugging a
stalactite and like when I say do your
hedges at one point out yeah kind of
like I was just like hey just kind of
like did like one of these that one yeah
all right I got it and like when I say
bear hugging I mean like fully wrapping
your legs like around and hugging these
tufas for dear life because you know
your forearms are starting to get tired
but you could you know literally wrap
your legs all the way around it and lock
your legs and you know rest your upper
body all right so we are headed up to
the high point of this amazing route and
as you can see it is insanely steep
we’re going up to fix lines right now to
check out the last pitch and I mean it
is it’s almost nauseatingly least it’s
like I mean there’s the Rope going up
there’s Maddy hanging tough in the poor
ledge there’s the ground
there’s my feet oh yeah
extended selfie there oh yeah keeping
pledge really good about the extended
selfie cedar thank you in our form
you
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