100 feet ABOVE huge rock fall on El Capitan

Ryan Sheridan (@ryansheridan) tells the story of being only 100 feet above the huge rock fall that happened on El Capitan in 2017. A lot of this footage was from Pass the Piton Pete who wrote the in depth Big Wall Book “Hooking Up” that you can buy by messaging him on [e-mail] (tell him you heard about his book from HowNOTtoHighline). Rocks continued to fall for days while they finished the climb and you can still see the rock scar today.
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[@HowNOT2]

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[@terraflow__bryanburdo4547]

Epic story. Rockfall on a big wall is one of my greatest fears in the outdoors.Makes you feel like a little ant with giants stomping around.

[@austinthrowsstuff]

I remember going to yosemite a few months after they expanded the cabins at curry village in 2008 and a rock slide took out the whole new area lmao We snuck by to look at the destruction and it was INSANE. Pictures dont do rocks like that justic

[@riderlopeman7858]

I had that dude as a ski coach. That dude can send it.

[@ryansheridan5015]

Alpine SHREDows ! keep crushing bro!

[@drewharper2067]

I dig the interview! That was such a major event, it’s cool to hear a first hand account.

[@TobyClimbs]

love the mic lol

[@ghaznavid]

Looks sticky

[@dvybeyond]

Mic on a stick - Malp on a stick Rodney McKay wants the patent right

[@tinodeeck8238]

"where rock climbing and Highlining has begun!" - France and Italy have entered the chat

[@ztt1991]

I once was in Siurana (Spain) when there was a rock fall. I was at another crag but I heard the story. The rock fall was in 'El pati' (the playground). That is the most famous sport climbing crag around with all the hardest routes like 'La Rambla'. People were climbing when goats walked on top op the crag and started this rock fall. It was a huge block that came down, right above these climbers. When it came down it hit a ledge en flipped over, over the climbers. They were so lucky to get out of that unharmed!

[@tacticalflannel8523]

Tragic. Seemed a bit light hearted for an event that took lives? I am sure the trauma was significant for those who witnessed. Amazing bravery for those who went in to rescue. Amazing the scale.

[@mitchellbarnow1709]

Incredible story! Thank you so much for sharing and I am so sorry for those that lost their lives.

[@danballarin]

I shared a camp 4 site with the involved couple and 2 others guys the weekend before the event. I believe the 2 other guys were on the E. Buttress while Andrew and Lucy were bailing, or else they were bailed just a bit earlier. I'm sure it was really traumatizing for the survivors, they were all really nice people and wish them the best.

[@Feverm00n]

Ryan has nice energy. What a crazy story, glad there weren’t more injuries.

[@IrishDougal]

Being an Irish climber myself I can assure you we have some epic multi pitch stuff it’s not El Capitan (but what is)! Great video by the way definitely a fan of this new direction looking forward to more.

[@billyword7428]

Crazy wild. Do more like this. I’m a tree climber Iv been climbing for 28 years. I would love to check out highlining!!

[@scottmx426no7]

Two close friends had JUST finished climbing one of the cathedral spires and have an incredible video from it. Crazy stuff.

[@NDKY67]

There are multi pitch routes in Ireland, there are some huge sea cliffs on the west coast

[@matthewkelly99]

Great story!! I love hearing first hand stories about epics on El Cap. More please?!!

[@jeroystelly1803]

Can we get a super good enough hat with some cams on it? Me and my trad buddies would love that!

[@shawnfoster1566]

Was there that day with my wife just hanging out. We vacation in bass lake every year and spend one day in Yosemite, the sound of the rock fall was so loud it was pretty wild

[@YannCamusBlissClimbing]

Ryan Sheridan! I did not know you were with Pete!! So happy go got up safe! Thanks for sharing :-)

[@mellifont96]

I love HowNot2 He seems like Dennis' cousin from its always sunny

[@TiffMcGiff]

AWESOME VIDEO JENKS! I have always wanted to know more about this event.

[@primateinterfacetechnologi6220]

That's freakin' gnarly man... changed my head a bit hearing your story. I've been in all kinds of dangerous situations; many times... but that my brother was very, very, gnarly. I know you didn't have any choice but to go on... but still, I'm going to say you have got some big old balls. this is coming from someone who at 14 years old, was employed commercial fishing- salmon and Dungeness crab, and halibut on the west coast just north of "San Fran". they say commercial fishing is dangerous (greater than 100% injury rate) and no doubt- the sea takes many lives; but that stuff you guys do... freaks me out. much respect. peace and rock on...

[@berryreading4809]

The algorithm knows me too well, I just saw the original piton pete video last week, and now an interview with his climbing partner! 👍 also I assumed the title was gonna be an onsite video of where Bobby injured that mountain during his recent fall 😄👍

[@BentonvilleMTB]

Really enjoyed this. Thank you to both of you.

[@marcondespaulo]

When in college I recall someone telling that there was this experiment, they were trying to see the effect of long time caving. One of the subjects heard a rockfall inside the cave. That must be the most frightening thing!

[@scoo73r]

I've really enjoyed the videos with Ryan Sheridan. Great job guys.

[@topramen6185]

I was leaving Yosemite that day in 2017 we were about to leave from the tunnel but we ended up hearing the rocks fall. The dust came up after a few minutes

[@boldbodyfitnessllc7120]

I definitely liked this video. That story was so intense! I would love to hear some highlining stories.

[@mehashi]

Really enjoyed the story thanks! I was in the path of an earth landslide as a teenager, very fortunate it was comparitively slow and we were close to the edge enough for us to get clear in time. It really resets your concept of how trustworthy the ground you are walking on is! The idea of solid rock moving is pure terror to me. I guess this has erased historical routes and new ones will need to be established in time?

[@rikvdmark]

Wow, that’s intense! I like the interview and hearing a first hand experience. Cool microphone by the way ^^

[@shawnfoster1566]

Crazy, my wife and i were there that day just hanging out, we go to Bass Lake every year for vacation and we usually go to Yosemite for one of the days. I remember we were at the Tunnel view and the noise was so load like thunder, it was pretty wild.

[@maibemiles3904]

Ryan Patrick and Paul RPP... good thing no one was named Ian!

[@CascadeMountainMan]

Love it! I think the conversation format was cool- very cool story too.

[@g_gaming2893]

“Did you hear it or see it first” Me - “He felt that shit”🤣🤣🤣

[@Akooks]

Every year someone dies from cliff collapse at my hometown at the beach. And it’s only like 50 - 100ft of sand stone. People like to sun bathe right at the foot of the cliff. If the rocks don’t kill you, getting buried alive will. RIP

[@tgx6536]

18:18 ryan did in fact not edit it it down.

[@ohmygosch]

Keep the stories coming, please!

[@patrickhaller669]

Pretty awesome interview, thanks for sharing the story

[@keatonbrody3975]

I work underground in a gold mine in Nevada, it doesn't take a big rock falling on you to hurt, just takes a little rock. You all be safe!

[@chrischurch4551]

I'm not a climber, but blows my mind being a on wall for days. What's the fastest waterfall route has ever been climbed?

[@hankzikakis4624]

Not sure about waterfall specifically, but a comparable route on El Cap (about 3000 ft) has been climbed in less than 2 hours.

[@zachsundborg1413]

@@hankzikakis4624 water fall route is half that size and much harder than the nose, not comparable at all. I think the speed record is around 6.5 hours for WF

[@abrahambrown5318]

Really enjoying all the content please keep it coming

[@muaddib6107]

This was awesome, give us a podcast with These characters!

[@JesseUnderscoreMartin]

I like this style of video

[@cobraclarke203]

Keep the stories coming!! Love hearing bout epics. Thanks!!

[@purple0burtle]

Thumbs up! Nice chat xxx

[@cooperspace90]

This Ryan is also awesome!

[@Sicnus]

Love it Ryan! You are like our own Valley reporter. ;) I'm still hoping for that video idea I emailed you about. :) No one has done that before.

[@staleyexplores]

Crazy story! Thanks for sharing.

[@brucevanpelt1740]

Really cool video

[@davids1716]

The Patreon mic. Maybe we ought to donate just a bit more…

[@jaredshearer7989]

When the video started, I thought he was playing a recorder.

[@davids1716]

@@jaredshearer7989 “Today on How Not to Highline we’re going to break test you…the audience” Pull out an actual recorder!

[@jaredshearer7989]

@@davids1716 Jenks is a superstar. No way he reads the comments. 😏

[@davids1716]

@@jaredshearer7989 Yup!

[@loading_wait]

The new set at el cap is sick

[@Xtreme_Airgun_Slugs]

Wtf...

[@Phoenixhunter157]

This is amazing.

[@colinwatt00]

I really enjoyed this video. Less KZbin-y = better.

[@chadillacinc]

I enjoyed this story

[@nateblakely4674]

Storytime is a great idea

[@ladnir]

Great content!

[@adamwilkinson6679]

Love the mic

[@jsEMCsquared]

question, do bolts ultimately cause the rock to contract and expand and therefore cause erosion??

[@AdamBen115]

Bolts would only really cause erosion if they shifted or moved, which in that case, it wouldn't really be a good anchor. But in terms of cracking the rock due to expansion of the steel or stainless steel bolts, unless you have a lot of bolts (like bolts every inch or two) all lined up across a sketchy part of the rock, you might be able to break off a hunk. The epoxy is probably stretchy enough not to crack rocks with temperature changes if they're glue-ins. The hammer in bolts could cause a crack from thermal expansion, but the stainless steels thermal expansion coefficient is between 14 and 17 (10-6 m/mC) depending on the alloy, granites being 7.9-8.4. A comparable case for context is concrete (~8) and water/ice (51) in Canada. Concrete slabs over winter will crack from ice seeping in and freezing, forcing the concrete apart. The difference is that the bolts wouldn't apply nearly as much force on the granite that ice applies to concrete. Steel's thermal expansion coefficient is closer to granite at 10.8-12.5, which applies even less pressure. You would have to be trying to break the rock to have it crack due to the thermal expansion of the bolts.

[@SK-fo3hk]

This is awesome!

[@sendit2873]

can I hold your stick lol Ryan S. is a beast climbing he has no fear and is very skilled at what he does

[@joaoandrebernardino]

More stories!!

[@Revelation22_5]

I liked this format.

[@Powderhorn916]

I like this guy

[@dmhawley13]

You weren't to high? No comment. Lmao.

[@ml.2770]

14:08 But what I really want to know brah is did it go across the road dude?

[@ColeClimbs]

This was sick, cool podcasty feel but really personable, would love to see more

[@alpardal]

Great video! On a side note, it's a bit shocking to me how narrow-minded and narcissistic religious people can get sometimes: "if I was one day late I would have been killed, praise the Lord" - well, other people did get killed, not much Lord-praising there, I assume

[@mitchellbarnow1709]

That’s because religion is bulls*it!

[@brentwalker3300]

Yeah, there isn't much critical thinking in the super religious community.

[@Dodanos1]

Exactly. Hoping that we as humans will be past superstitions slowly but surely.

[@terraflow__bryanburdo4547]

@@Dodanos1Only to replace them with "woke ideology" and faith in the authority of bloodsucking government.

[@maryl8614]

He just sounds happy to be alive to me, and who can blame him? I’d be excited to survive something like that.

[@gimlisbeardcomb]

Would love to learn more about why it takes so long to climb it

[@charlesmullins3238]

3000’ vertical wall may have some influence on it

[@muchmore344]

are they not monitoring the rock faces? so if the rock picks up "speed" over the course of a week/month/year They are doing this in the swiss alps. automatic laser measuring

[@mattgraham4340]

I doubt such a technique is applicable. I don't think this igneous dome exfoliation is comparable to typical avalanche systems.

[@muchmore344]

@@mattgraham4340 why not. the rock does not go from 0 to ground in a single day. like he said that he could see the giant gaps. those would have develop over years. and if you monitor this development you could see if a section is getting worse, than send out someone that checks the rock

[@adriansth]

@@muchmore344 we do this in norway as well. Works pretty good on the rocks we have.

[@mattgraham4340]

@@muchmore344 because my understanding is the motion before the collapse is mostly outwards and trivial distances before the collapse. Those giant gaps he was talking about, had probably been there for decades. Albeit, getting incrementally worse. The avalanches that you are talking about are some sort of aggregate of different materials that I suspect have a much larger plastic zone on their yield curve before failure. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pIWkcmCHhNqbjJI

[@MrEh5]

There has been some thermal imaging done. Exfoliating rock is a different temperature.

[@ralfrussel1950]

Well, that's a mic. And by mic I mean story.

[@catherinebugden]

Did you make it fall dude?

[@chatttenn4814]

Porta ledge camping in a 60' cypress tree doesn't seem so sketch after I heard about tossing a pebble behind the giant lose flake they were camping on. I don't think I could have slept there, I would of been shi+++ bricks in bags up there!

[@Xtreme_Airgun_Slugs]

I would have rapped off that wall faster that butter on a hot pan!

[@chatttenn4814]

@@Xtreme_Airgun_Slugs Yeah you could have before the rock fall but after it's a no go. Big wallers are chill with camping up there on things like that, They probably all had a good laugh about the pebble toss.

[@richardsmith9918]

Epic

[@jefffoy530]

So wild🙏🤙✌️

[@theloganpresley]

ye, story was coo. Want more pls

[@Squids_Vlogs]

So scary RIP those who died 😔

[@cody5591]

Fuckin rad mic! You change that and its gunna be such a mistake hahahaha best mic ever, love the stories too more of em!

[@BrendanWilliamsTutorials]

I’d be sweatin!

[@terraflow__bryanburdo4547]

The mic should have been a piton.

[@aza1479]

I wish I was in Yosemite

[@codyramseur]

Thanks be to lucky dice

[@enigmacrk200]

Shit I didn't know Kia the hitchhiker got out of jail!

[@beginna]

Nice. I'd love to hear more authentic climbing stories. Can also be a bit longer than the "14-16 minutes of talking". ;) 👍

[@sheloveswilby]

This was really interesting. I liked this.

[@lisacolbert5987]

Probably a super un-cool thing to ask and it’ll quickly expose me as a non-climber but , what’s the likelihood that decades of climbing on it and hammering various pieces of metal into it over and over , added to the fragility of the rock ? Please know , I’m in no way looking to pass blame ! And of course over the years (growing up camping , hiking and micro-summiting all over , from Big Sur to British Columbia/Alaska , I’ve seen giant old rock slides and probably stood on granite slabs that had once been attached above me - eons of freeze and thaw cycles , etc. . I just remember seeing climbing footage where it looks like an apparatus was being forced in a crag/crack in the exact place I’d pry at if I wanted to cause full-on separation . I know , long winded and silly Q but I can’t see you roll your eyes from where I am . Thanks ! P.S. Anyone ever seen that short film , “Solo” that the Sierra Club produced in the late 60s (?) . The one where the dude finds the cute little frog on a granite face and puts it in his pocket . Let’s it go on top . I found it on YT once . Nothing like the mad climbs ppl do nowadays but , yeah , for it’s time it was really something . P.P.S. I’m glad that Ryan (?) wasn’t a casualty . But it’s obvious you two young fellas have a rare attitude toward the risks you take and mortality . Way to fully live life !

[@smartmonkey777]

In my humble opinion the bolts are almost inert and cause almost no damage. the likelihood of bolts contributing to this. What causes the rocks of mountains to collapse is water, the water seeps into a crack an then expands, it takes something like 1.5 million ( or more ) psi to contain "Ice" so ice can basically force apart any loose rock over time.

[@ayeeniko]

It’s more of an odds game. Regardless of if people are climbing on it rockfalls still happen. We have gravity to thank for that. Rock, especially rock the size of el cap, is fuckin heavy. Gravity really doesn’t want it up there. El cap is also popular to climb so they’ll likely be climbers present to witness a rockfall. If a tree falls in the forest and there’s nobody around, does it make a sound? You don’t hear about the rockfalls that happen in remote areas, because nobody sleeps below them!

[@Ron-dt1cz]

Do took a giant whipper and loosened the rock the day before.

[@petterlarsson7257]

what even fell there?

[@StabBacker]

Loosing your hammer but not your life in that scenario would indicate to get the fuck down again, you've sort of cheated death at that point xD

[@Kraken_Meister]

"Miguel Microphone... on a shtick"

[@Version135]

Lol this guy is a riot.

[@alldemocratsmustdie]

Let's play a game,take a shot everytime he says like 😂

[@Xtreme_Airgun_Slugs]

He's a stoner, we'd die of alcohol poisoning 😄

[@ryansheridan5015]

@@Xtreme_Airgun_Slugs Thats LIKE really true maaan

[@edevil4347]

Story time with climbing enthusiasts is a awesome idea. Podcasts suck .

[@jaketarren]

So if I donate I'll get a stick mic of my own? Lol

[@thebarnyard5633]

Is it root or route? Fight!

[@TheJfizzle11]

Haha ryan!

[@austinthrowsstuff]

why are you looking up when someone says rock? its like people when you yell fore and they dont duck lol

[@amsf1]

And this is why i don't climb

[@maxwaters1461]

pITON pETE?

[@notlandyn7677]

that is not the type of mic you pass back and forth you actually need to keep it further from your mouth so we don't have to listen to your breathing p.s. you sound the same as you do in every video and definitely nothing like a reporter ;)

[@mainemade300]

Texas flake