Great Roof Movie, a.k.a. "yah, Tommy...yah....yah

[Raindawg]

Check out this impressive video of young Mr. Thomas Caldwell free-climbing the Nose's Great Roof on The Cap'n.

 

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(Click on the "Extras Section" and then "The Great Roof".)

 

Pretty good action, but it's dang distracting hearing the shrill voice of his belayer (his wife?) yelling, "yah, Tommy, yah....yah.....yah.....yah.....yah.....yah, Tommy, yah...yah....yah....yah..."

 

Maybe's he climbing fast to get out of hearing range, yah?

[pope]

That might be his secret...every move he manages to make puts more distance between him and that noise. I recall Todd Skinner's "ascent" of City Park. There was somebody in his party making an equivalent cacophany.

[Cobra_Commander]

that voice was way too low-pitched for his wife. take it up a couple octaves and add some mickey mouse inflection and you might be close.

 

"tommy" still looks like he's about 10 years old btw.

[olyclimber]

its that Chris McNamara dude doing the yapping.

[Cobra_Commander]

"I'm gonna post the shit out of this when I get back online!"

[Off_White]

Damn Dawg, you wouldn't climb that hard for $100, or whatever that offer was that Kurt made. I'd be glad to offer shrill exhortations if that was what it took.

[billcoe]

Damn Dawg, you wouldn't climb that hard for $100, or whatever that offer was that Kurt made. I'd be glad to offer shrill exhortations if that was what it took.

 

I'll scream like a girl for half that amount.

 

Show me the money.

[jmace]

Just one more reason to never have a climbing girlfriend....too much

yapping

[pope]

Just had another experience with the "Yah Tommy" video and I's comes up with another theorem about why all that jibber-jabba be going on.

 

Seems to me, that Mr. Tommy's vocal spouse ain't the star of the show, so she's injecting herself verbally to gets herself a piece of THE ACTION. Yes sir!

 

Don't believe me? Go ahead...ask The Thingfish!