Who Needs Rope? Not This Guy

File this under “Stupid But Bad-Ass”. Ueli Steck scaled a 4,000-ft high rock face on Mont Blanc, Europe’s tallest peak, without the aid of ropes or a harness. The only equipment he used was a pair of pickaxes and crampons, the metal spikes climbers attach to their shoes.

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Who Needs Rope? Not This Guy
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    • Who Needs Rope? Not This Guy is starting to get hot on Facebook Share It  about a year ago
    • luisu thinks Who Needs Rope? Not This Guy is OMG  about a year ago
    • thetoaster a year ago

      Badass but not as badass as this guy. Skip to 1:35 for climbing.

    • menegotchi thinks Who Needs Rope? Not This Guy is OMG  about a year ago
    • michaeldavidb   Who Needs Rope? Not This Guy and thinks it’s Win & OMG  about a year ago
    • Derek a year ago

      Those are ice-axes, not pick axes. He’s a climber, not a prospector.

    • Jose Fuentes a year ago

      What benschomatic said. Plus, this is the Eiger, not Mont Blanc. The elevation is 3970 m.

    • barbydoc thinks Who Needs Rope? Not This Guy is OMG  about a year ago
    • Danny FN Wu thinks Who Needs Rope? Not This Guy is Win, OMG &  about a year ago
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    • eneasv a year ago

      the elevation is wrong!
      it has 4,808 m (15,774 feet)

    • davidyk   Who Needs Rope? Not This Guy  about a year ago
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    • LaTre Johnson thinks Who Needs Rope? Not This Guy is Win, OMG & WTF  about a year ago
    • noodl33333   Who Needs Rope? Not This Guy and thinks it’s OMG  about a year ago
    • Joshy1234 a year ago

      Hard to tell where that guys balls ended and the mountain began. Absolutely amazing. And at least he was safety conscious enough to wear a helmet.

    • cmdugan thinks Who Needs Rope? Not This Guy is WTF & OMG  about a year ago
    • benschomatic a year ago

      With a little more research, you could have linked to the original video of this feat (from February, with over 1,000,000 views) and tacked on the fact that this solo climb was a record-breaker.

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    • Jack Shepherd thinks Who Needs Rope? Not This Guy is OMG  about a year ago
    • maxk thinks EPIC WIN! Swiss Climber Scales Mounta... is , Win & OMG  about a year ago
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