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Alex Waterhouse and Billy Ridal are two recently retired competition climbers that attempt to apply their indoor skills to real rock in the most extra-ordinary fashion. With almost no traditional climbing experience and barely a multi-pitch climb between them, our audacious duo set out to be the first Britons to make a free ascent of the world famous Nose on El Capitan, Yosemite. The route was first climbed by Lynn Hill in 1993 and has subsequently only received eight ascents in 30 years. To say the odds were stacked against them would be an understatement comparable in size to the route itself. Hold tight as the action-packed film tracks this most unlikely of journeys to success.
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00:00The bet I would have placed is that YoungBrit team gets rescued off of El Cap.
00:05Oh, my God.
00:11If you told me that two recently retired competition climbers
00:14were going to go and free the nose without an experienced wall climber on the team,
00:19I'd have said no chance.
00:22People really didn't understand that it was as hard as it is.
00:27Come on! Come on, El.
00:29Take care, you fucking sheep.
00:31We're going to the top, baby!
00:34Yes!

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