Ice climber must’ve had a large bowl of Lucky Charms this morning (Video)

they asked at the start to confirm he was on belay which was confirmed. he was never in any danger even without the secondary clip.

He is clipped into a bolt a couple feet below his stance. Would be scary but he would of been fine.

Dude, seriously? You tried to climb on wet ice?

at what point is this video going to get interesting

yeah i don't get it… he was already anchored.

So a guy decides to climb up a steep, slick rock by digging a sharp pick into a thin sheet of ice with water running quickly around and under it… I can't see any way that could go wrong.

Umm, as an ice climber with, I can confidently say that guy doesn't know shit about ice. That guy should not be free-soloing, let alone on snice; one usually does not free solo unless it's good conditions for it. Seriously, you can hear his tools hitting the rock!

This was 5 minutes of my life i'm never getting back.. i think the snowmobiler near 1000 ft drop has set my standards too high to be interested in any similar videos.

ice climbing in summer… it was never going to take off

crazy to think how easily all that chuckling could have been screams of horror.

you can see he was lead climbing that ice. he might have taken a whipper, but he'd live.

Once again late season ice demonstrates the need for solid decision making skills and this guy lacks it. If the ice below him is anywhere near as shady as the thin stuff that dinner plated on him, they should have backed off that climb long ago.

moron was free climbing that? so ametuer.

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Nothing to see here, this is amateur albeit educated climbing, without ice you can still climb that with tools – the climbers know how to protect themselves, no one in this video was lucky, or even scared – another typical day of climbing couloirs in the springtime – people do this everyday, mountains are awesome, chive on.

let's climb up a thin ice shelf with running water going through it.. probably smart.
running water = melting ice. Idiot.

Surely, someone was belaying for him down below…he was trailing a rope…presumably with some protection screwed in not too far below his position. I can't imagine anyone free soloing an ice climb with moving water beneath.

Ice climbing when it's sunny, warm, and melting………………………………………………………………………….

I Ice climb. He was doing almost everything correctly on lead. The 2 people off camera had just come up there via the exact same technique he used. That's just the inherent risk with ice climbing. He was using ropes, and was protected by a piece of gear just below him. But still a scary situation. Worse, is where that ice went. how close was it to his belayer?

*What went through my mind when it happened*
F**** ME!!!!!!

& that is why I dont ice climb!

why cant i view any videos i can see the ads but not the videos

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Ice can also form icicles, similar to stalactites in appearance, or stalagmite-like forms as water drips and re-freezes.

I like also to climb but I think its quite difficult when you are in the middle of the cold surroundings.