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about and even fewer people do. We hear from Pete Whittaker, his long time climbing partner Tom Randall and Big wall solo climbing expert Andy Kirkpatrick as they take us through the paces of what it really means to make a rope-solo-free ascent of El Cap. “The Problem is if Pete pulled it off, nobody would even get it, nobody would understand how hard it was"… "and to do it in a day, is totally insane” - Andy Kirkpatrick “The ascent made by Pete on Freerider to me is hopefully the dawn of a new style of big wall solo climbing, big wall solo climbing on El Capitan for many years was just aid climbing. Now Pete has proven that it's possible to do that free climbing, but relatively fast” - Tom Randall EpicTV Climbing Daily interviews Pete about his ascent: https://youtu.be/52tHkT-dri8 WATCH: More BMC TV climbing films https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fKKsqMPBZA&list=PLTodUXkQjZwzH-vFrkBftVSwRFDt1fJ9q A TWO MUPPETS production Directed and edited by Adam Bailes Produced by Pete Whittaker and Adam Bailes Camera and graphics by Dustin Moore Additional camera: Jen Randall, Pete Whittaker, Dustin Moore, Adam Bailes Thanks to Wild Country and Five Ten Music (in order of appearance) Chris Zabriskie - Oxygen Garden Chris Zabriskie - Divider Tours - Enthusiast Chris Zabriskie - Wonder Cycle Chris Zabriskie - Stories About the World That Once Was Chris Zabriskie - There's a Special Place for Some People #CLIMBING #YOSEMITE We're the BMC. Climb walls, rock, hills, ice or mountains? Join us. https://www.thebmc.co.uk/join