Black Diamond Presents: BD Employee Brent Barghahn Attempts Ring That Bell (5.13R) in Bells Canyon

[@wayoutwest7]

Best marketing BD has ever done.

[@artyparty_av]

What a plug for the offset z4s eh. Great job! Gorgeous route

[@johngithae5360]

Hi climbers. I always admire and appreciate your passionate adventures.(Great impact in my Rope courses and Mountaineering activities).congratulations Black Diamond..warm regards from Nairobi,Kenya. Mountaineering Guide/leader and conservationist. John githae

[@adrianhuysman3331]

The concept of “cost of entry” is awesome when taking mountains.

[@Mike-oz4cv]

For me it doesn’t add anything if it’s hard to get to. I’m a climber, not a car driver or hiker.

[@evankimber5131]

@@Mike-oz4cv Then be limited by your own restrictions. Lots of show piece routes or unique routes are good hikes in. Hell, to access a third of the crags in the Canadian Rockies its a 50min to 1 hour long hike. Don't even ask about some of the alpine climbs some can be full days in.

[@GravityPancake]

Snowboarding is how I've become familiar with that notion.

[@Thatsatreat313]

What other company puts on for their own employees like this?! Awesome video and awesome climb!

[@timthemijal]

Blackdonalds

[@Rickswars]

Awesome company.

[@YiZongOng]

DMM

[@thawkward3985]

Great to see Brad highlighted like this

[@bkl8804]

That was beast. Hardcore trad. Jesus.

[@salamandersmith]

Stellar cinematography!!

[@wayoutwest7]

this dude climbs 5.13 faster than I climb 5.8

[@ficklemedia8733]

Super cool film. Really enjoyed this one. Thanks guys ✌️

[@stevetrockman204]

Great job! Excellent cinematography as well.

[@Rangetechus]

That’s friggin excellent!!

[@burtonlindquist6921]

Looks like really brilliant fun granite trad climbing! Nice work!

[@SROribe]

Maravilloso

[@ASNIV_]

Beast

[@danielbreslawski4492]

7:10 Neal Stephenson represent.

[@benjithethird]

4:42

[@deathmetalhablo]

Next time please without cuts when showing the climb itself. I also would like to see the gear placing.

[@mls01981]

Ditto! It says "flash attempt," but then there are multiple cuts to him with gear placed and clipped above him. No doubt a very hard climb, but the beginning subtitle is misleading...

[@brentbclimbs]

@@mls01981 That was bail gear left from a previous climber's attempts

[@mls01981]

@@brentbclimbs Thank you!

[@damn3061]

what doea the r mean in 5.15r

[@allenfrankin]

How was this filmed?

[@thesystem4025]

A camera

[@TiffMcGiff]

Sick Nasty

[@ehoh3246]

Looks more like 5.9 c

[@fb39ca4]

2:30 looks an awful lot like aid

[@paulmitchell5349]

Meaning in terms of rock climbing is ascribed, not intrinsic. It doesn't need a meaning for us to enjoy it.

[@shanehoubart9832]

Bold no doubt!! It's my opinion that if a ground fall sanaerio is possible, then an added bolt should be added...

[@adityanavale8777]

If it’s this route is that dangerous with bad gear placements, then why not just add bolts and avoid unnecessary death and injuries. I don’t get why we insist on climbing being unsafe and inaccessible.

[@mingus_pingus4488]

What's the deal with not adding bolts to make routes safer and more accessible to climb? If you feel against using potentially life saving hardware and climbing in the "intended" way, why not just skip the bolt then? A bit bummed climbing culture doesn't work to mitigate risk and directly works to maintain it.

[@tallasianguy42]

Since you appear to not be very knowledgeable in regards to climbing in general, I won't rip you a new one for this comment. For every heady trad climb like this one, there are 100+ sport climbs with a bolt every 5-10 feet. Not every climb has to be safe or accessible for everyone.

[@gkaplan555]

@@tallasianguy42 great summation and reply. @Nic Benson: obviously we are all lucky enough to live in an era when we can arbitrarily go out and have fun and as much adventure as one can deal with. I myself love developing safe and well protected routes that I hope and intend will get repeated often (i.e. "plaisir style"), but nothing would be the same if every route was in that style. The simplest answer is, "I guess it sounds like you won't be trying this one, eh crusher? There's plenty of other routes though, so don't cry too much."

[@mingus_pingus4488]

@boldering I was just having a conversation no need to be so short lighten up buddy. It just seems to me that the possibility of decking from 50 ft should be removed. A climb can still get spicy without being life threatening.

[@HorrorCow]

@@mingus_pingus4488 Where's the fun in making every climb accessible and safe? It's not like some random person is gonna rock up and go for the onsight cause they heard the route goes.

[@Rickswars]

@@mingus_pingus4488 growsome. snowflake.

[@vollholz-vollgut9102]

No one seems to be able to walk in the wild without those hiking sticks. Id rather be free and able to walk without all those senseless money making stuff.

[@johntuttle9544]

Sorry, potentially decking on the last crux above the questionable cams is lame in an era of COVID-19 and BLM etc (just to take our own country as an example) when so many humans are just struggling to live or get basic justice. Route should be renamed "White People's (invented) Problems". You can still make for plenty of spice overall on the route by adding a solid bolt there. Getting killed on this route at the pinnacle of your youth by a crystal breaking would be the height of lame when so many just want to live to see the sun rise again.

[@bker5376]

I think bolting the crux would take away from the route's grade slightly, as he does say that their decent gear above it. I also don't think that privilege has got anything to do with him climbing this route, as the rock doesn't care what color he is. Thiers a climber over here in the UK called Trevor Massiah whos got a cracking video of himself climbing T rex at Gogarth which is E4 5c, he's even climbed routes up to E6. I don't get you wanting to rename the route to "white people's (invented) problems" I think that's bit daft, I can't imagine you having had this type of response if it were a person of another race climbing this route. And you never know those cams might have held a fall.

[@cobode8044]

Based on the MP page for this route, this ascent was done pre-covid in November.

[@bker5376]

@@cobode8044 That bodes well, at least he wouldn't be an even greater burden on mountain rescue. The few paragraphs that he commented on the route are quite interesting as well. www.mountainproject.com/route/106954960/ring-that-bell

[@howitzer106]

Any route, at any time, could be named "white people's (invented) problems"...climbing is stupid and pointless. No one needs to do it. Its entire existence is an invented problem. One can both support this unnecessary pursuit and ALSO support BLM and our fellow humans. Nothing is binary. Everything exists on a spectrum.

[@bker5376]

@@ceesawful I think it would be taking away from the crux to bolt that specific spot because you could still claim the route even if youve used it. Maybe that might get the route downgraded because its taking away some of that pychologicall stress, but as you said the routes quite remote and the chances of it getting bolted are slim. I do complety agree with you as I would rather be messing around on bolted routes and enjoying the climbing more than stressing out over decking.