There is alot of permanent and semi-permanant installtion set up on the route. There is alot of outside help. There is alot of "aid" being used to actually climb this route and to resupply it. To me this this is free climbing like gym climbing is "free climbing". The level of "technnical difficulty" is high, but that deosn't seem to be the whole story.
The feat is immensively impressive, but use of the word "free climning" here is starting to become almost meaninglesss when there is that much permant aid/infrastructure and siege tactic being applied to the problem.
If these 2 guys were alone and hauled up their own gear/disposed of waste, and actually climbed the route sequentially...rather than using aid to rest between pitches...something seems to suggest they would have faced a significantly greater obstacle.
So the media hype around a "free climb" here is overblown. On the other hand, its kind of ??? we as the public need to hang our hats on the "category/name" here to appreciate what these guys are doing.
That label seems needed market the climb and their sponsors... or apparently the public would be inclined to take it so seriously (??).
Kinda warped view...but it is what it is.
The feat is immensively impressive, but use of the word "free climning" here is starting to become almost meaninglesss when there is that much permant aid/infrastructure and siege tactic being applied to the problem.
If these 2 guys were alone and hauled up their own gear/disposed of waste, and actually climbed the route sequentially...rather than using aid to rest between pitches...something seems to suggest they would have faced a significantly greater obstacle.
So the media hype around a "free climb" here is overblown. On the other hand, its kind of ??? we as the public need to hang our hats on the "category/name" here to appreciate what these guys are doing.
That label seems needed market the climb and their sponsors... or apparently the public would be inclined to take it so seriously (??).
Kinda warped view...but it is what it is.