Weekend Whipper: Three-Man Shoulder Stand and an Enormous Fall in Ardspach

What do you do when the crack doesn’t start until 12 feet up, the wall is blank, and the local ethic forbids bolts? Get a little help from your friends! Always good to have a shoulder to lean - er, stand - on. On the hundreds of sandstone towers in Adršpach, Czech Republic, protection is limited to knotted slings or ropes, and widely-spaced ringbolts. In this video, local climber Danny Mensik starts the route “Orel nebo pana“ (“Head or tail“) by standing on the shoulders of a friend who is already stand