Weekend Whipper: Gear-Ripping Winger on a 5.13 in Sweden

They don't come much closer than this whipper, submitted and filmed by Eline Næsheim!

Over the Easter holiday last year, Eline went climbing with friends in Bohuslän, Sweden. One of her friends was projecting "Skräckpropaganda," an 8a (5.13b) in the Galgeberget sector.

After sussing it out on toprope, Eline's friend decided one crisp morning, just as the sun was hitting the climb, that it was time to take the sharp end.

Belayed by another friend named Joakim, the climber looks good all the way up, just until the last piece of protection. Eline told Rock and Ice, "In the video she places the last protection, I don't remember which one, but it was a small piece. And from there you just have to go! It looks like she didn't reach the sloper on the slab properly."

Great job belaying Joakim - could have been a lot worse.

Happy Friday and climb safe this weekend!

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[uplan]

And we are off to the comments section.
Let's see what the experts think.

[krazekid]

Belayer saw that fall from a mile away. Nice job

[juliandurchholz]

Good reaction by the belayer. That's why to wear a helmet, folks...

[theSquashSH]

first scream = oh shit I'm falling
second scream = oh shit I haven't *stopped* falling and that's the ground right there

[WallOfDis]

Belayer MVP. Supremely attentive and took proactive action when he knew it was imminent.

[jean-christophecote]

If you can afford trad gear, you can afford a frickin' helmet.

[snakedike]

Sometimes the options for pro suck. I suspect the climber new this as she zipped it up pretty good. She cleared the wall, got her feet down, the belayer took in slack. Close but well managed.

[amdrewf]

Her head came so close to that rock jesus

[abel]

Normally not the guy to say wear a helmet, but JEZUS WEAR A FKN HELMET

[MyGoogleYoutube]

Wow, that was close. I wonder why the push away before the fall? Concerned about the overhang?

[Chance-ryhq]

Ya might wanna wear a helmet, ya might wanna place your gear a little better, ya might wanna find a new hobby, before you seriously break yourself.
If you don’t, ya might wanna keep that belayer. He saved your ass.

[robzombie]

And those poppers are exactly why I am hesitant to get into trad climbing.

[xsuperbmentality]

It's like people are allergic to helmets haha

[eqqos]

Who needs a helmet on 5.13 trad anyway? Natural selection trying its best.

[eliasparker]

Everyone is saying good job by the belayer but I don’t understand that. (I don’t climb) but it looked like the last clip was quite close to her, shouldn’t he have been able to stop her fall way before the point that he did? She almost hit the ground. Just asking out of pure curiosity, not trying to be controversial.

[MrUncut]

And that everyone is why you should WEAR A FUCKING HELMET WHILE TRAD CLIMBING!

[setadoon]

The YouTube algorithm brought me here to tell the Trad climbers in these kinds of videos to go back to physics class before they set any more gear.

[simoneboxler]

with a fancy "jumping crap" move he will have both legs broken or even worst

[natehartwell]

There would be no weekend wippers if people would just top rope instead of lead climbing these ridiculously short routes, especially TRAD. No wonder no one dies sport climbing. They are all in the ER or physical therapy.

[picklerick]

The people here saying the belayer did a good job should never ever belaying someone