EXCLUSIVE: Pete Whittaker, without a partner, a film about climbing alone.

In this exclusive short from Five Ten, climber Pete Whittaker steps into a world where there is no belayer, no partner, and no margin for complacency. Built around his rope-solo, all-free push on El Capitan’s Freerider in November 2016, the film offers a focused preview of what it means to commit to big-wall climbing completely alone—managing systems, fatigue, and fear while staying in the flow of hard free climbing for hour after hour. What makes this worth watching is how it pulls back the curtain on a style few climbers truly understand, let alone attempt. With perspective from long-time partner Tom Randall and solo specialist Andy Kirkpatrick, the achievement is put into sharp relief: the quiet complexity behind every move, and the audacity of doing it fast—20 hours and 6 minutes—on one of the world’s most iconic walls. If you’re drawn to big objectives, mental endurance, and the raw honesty of self-reliance, this is a tight, high-stakes watch.

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In this exclusive short film we get an sneak preview at the soon to be released feature film ''Pete Whittaker, without a partner, a film about climbing alone.'' On November the 11th and 12th 2016, Five Ten athlete Pete Whittaker became the first person to rope solo—all free—El Capitan in under 24 hours. He finished the solo in 20 hours 6 minutes, making his ascent both the first of its kind and the first solo-free of El Cap in a day. Rope Solo Free Climbing is a sport that few people know about and even less people do. We join Five Ten climber Pete Whittaker, his long time climbing partner Tom Randall and Big wall solo climbing expert Andy Kirkpatrick as they take us through the paces of what it really means to make a solo-free ascent of El Cap. “The Problem is if Pete pulled it off, nobody would even get it, nobody would understand how hard it was”… and to do it in a day, is totally insane”. - Andy Kirkpatrick “The ascent made by Pete on Freerider to me is hopefully the dawn of a new style of big wall solo climbing, big wall solo climbing on El Capitan for many years was just aid climbing. Now Pete has proven that it's possible to do that free climbing, but relatively fast” - Tom Randall A TWO MUPPETS PRODUCITON. DIRECTED PRODUCED AND EDITED BY ADAM BAILES CO PRODUCED BY PETE WHITTAKER CAMERA AND GRAPHICS DUSTIN MOORE MUSIC - (in order of appearance.) -Because you hold me tight by Alex Fitch -Moon Walk by Jii Music -Bibs by Numeric Handcraft