Alex Honnold & Tommy Caldwell Speed Climb The Nose - Epic Timelapse!

On June 6, 2018, Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell climbed The Nose on El Capitan in 01:58:07, setting a speed record for the ages, and fulfilling Honnold’s lifetime goal of a sub-2-hour Nose ascent. This is the actual record breaking climb, bottom to top, in one continuous time-lapse shot.

[markwhite]

I guess we are a rare breed Alex, Tommy and me. I once climbed a ladder to get a Frisbee off the roof pretty darn fast.

[colinparker]

This is perhaps the most incredible footage of anything outside of pure nature that I've ever seen. To capture in one shot something so impossible. Incredible.

[stuartseldon]

I'm not a climber, but love watching this stuff. This is the first film I've seen where I got a sense of how frickin' big that hunk of rock is.

[thegingerpowerranger]

To put it into perspective

Most people spend a day to get the first few pitches done, haul all the food and gear up, and do this over a week.

These guys did it in under 2 hours and would have been able to walk down in time to have lunch.

[dumbdumber]

they looked more like small spiders climbing a rock to me, the shape, the speed was almost bang on. that said it's actually quite a mind boggling event and to do it with such little fan fare too. astounding really. back in the 50's they took months to climb that face.

[BradiKal]

at first I thought this high speed video looked silly but then i saw how effectively it shows the scale of what the climbers are actually climbing. you get a whole new appreciation for both the climbing skill and also the majesty of the environment they are climbing

[gregparrott]

Showing this in in one continuous time-lapse shot is EXCELLENT and mind blowing. If I didn't know in advance WHAT is being climbed and WHO is climbing, I might well have assumed I was watching ants working their way to a food source.

[code-bleu]

If anything, this short video - even more than "Free Solo" in my humble opinion - shows just how enormous El Capitan really is. Every time I think Tommy and Alex must be close to the top, the camera just keeps going up...and up...and up. Incredible.

[colinrippey]

In Scotland we have hills above 3, 000 feet we call Munros (282 in total). It’s a very popular pastime to “bag a Munro” as there’s only 1 or 2 that you need climbing gear to top. To see two people scale a cliff face that is basically the height of a Munro is just staggering!

It usually takes us 1.5 to 2 hours to walk up most Munros but that’s on a path with gradients you can walk up easily enough, to see someone climb 2, 900 feet vertically in under 2 hours is just stunning.

[kurtdewittphoto]

Man, this really gives you a sense of scale. It seems endless. Reminds me of the cockpit instrument shot in Airplane! that goes on forever.

[peterrees]

That gives a real sense of the route for those who are not familiar with it.

[markschuette]

wow that was some of the most incredible climbing footage i've ever seen! what a great perspective.

[gerardguitarist]

Not too many Moons ago this face was deemed "unclimable" by the best in the business of the day. I believe the first ascent ever completed took something like 3 weeks. If you told them that soon a couple of Cats would run up the Nose in 2 hours you would have been put in a straight jacket and institutionalized. Also, Alex has free climbed it! And Tommy is missing a finger on one hand! Pretty unbelievable stuff...

[Sejfullah]

my wife didn't know what I was watching, she thought it's two bugs climbing up a wall :D

[MikeB-]

Unfreakin' believable! Tommy and Alex are super-human, super amazing, super cool, super outrageous, and super bad-ass!!

[Gigaamped]

This is the climbing footage I've been /dreaming/ about seeing! I'm in awe

[dpeterson]

A few years ago, Stan Lee had a TV series where he went out and found people with real superhuman abilities. Alex and Tommy definitely would belong on that show. Complete respect!

[tkell]

It's amazing that they blow by the humans climbing in the first five hundred feet. Really puts how fast they are doing it in perspective.

[TheSateef]

all you need to know is it's Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell and you know it will be epic

[Rick-cxup]

looks like ants crawling up a rock, amazing