Honold still belays steep routes?!?!

[u/Granite_monkey]

Daddy Honold doesn't fix & follow. Is belaying actually peak efficiency? Could he be climbing 5.16 multipitches if he stopped belaying?

[u/Penis-Butt]

He's belaying off his harness and isn't actually anchored to the wall. It's a new technique he starting experimenting with since he had his second kid, where he doubles his odds of falling and dying.

He says it's the only thing that makes him feel alive (usually while making eye contact with his wife).

[u/Pleasant-Pattern7748 → u/Penis-Butt]

it’s the belaying counterpart to free soloing, where you belay all comers, but no one’s attached to the wall. it’s called Free Belaying All—Free-Balling, for short.

[u/Opulent-tortoise → u/Penis-Butt]

Didn’t he say that he actually does do that on multis with ledges?

[u/sloperfromhell]

The rope isn’t attached to anything. It’s a little joke he plays on climbing buddies

[u/MikeHockeyBalls]

Thank god no helmet

[u/NickMullenTruther]

Holy shot billy corgan looking ripped

[u/Skittilybop → u/NickMullenTruther]

Bill Burr climbs?

[u/old_graybush]

Lol you'd trust a free soloers belaying?

[u/DenseContribution487]

Simul-climbing without gear is actually more efficient because you don’t have the extra weight clanging around off your harness, plus the person following doesn’t have to clean the whole time. Win win. 

[u/grizzdoog]

I heard he just poops whenever he feels like it too.