00:01Humken Falls is the place for ice climbing.
00:03It's limitless, the amount of climbing that you can do.
00:06We've come here to try and climb the hardest ice climb in the world.
00:09There's nowhere else like it that has ice on such steep rock.
00:13The main waterfall never freezes,
00:16and it's just the spray that forms the spray ice
00:19on the really overhanging walls of the waterfall.
00:22You're able to climb really long, steep, hard roots purely on ice.
00:53It's not dry-tooling and it's not mixed climbing,
00:55because we climb on ice and that makes it an ice climb.
00:57Every move on our routes in Hampton Falls are on ice.
01:02It's absolutely huge. It's a 40-meter pitch.
01:06It just gets steeper and steeper and the closer you are to the anchor, to the top, the steepest it
01:11gets.
01:12Crux is literally the last move. It's right at our limit.
01:19We've called this route Mission to Mars and we've given it WI 13. That grade doesn't exist until now.
01:27It is the hardest thing we did on ice tools.
01:31Basically, it's a new discipline for ice climbing. It's a new way of expressing ourselves.
01:36I do find ice climbing as the most joyful art of climbing.
