Hannah Smith

This is somebody who is deflecting from other things that he's said, and it's not acceptable in a supposed leader of the free world.

free solo was pre-recorded so all of us that were watching it knew what we were getting into and we knew they obviously weren't going to show us anything um that was potentially going to go really badly wrong whereas yeah live streaming i think there have been a lot of conversations around our community but also elsewhere about the sort of ethical questions around this and whether it's responsible even for him to be taking on this feat um

If it were to go wrong, it's being broadcast worldwide.

And not only would that be a really traumatic thing for some people to witness if it were to go terribly wrong, but the damage it could potentially do to our sport long term in terms of people getting involved with it or trying it themselves could be quite detrimental to us as a community.

But even just the commercialisation of such an event and offering someone something

a contract or some sort of money to go and put themselves in a really life-threatening situation live on TV in front of people.

It's not without its questions as well.

Yeah, exactly.

So most rock climbers never even consider doing anything that isn't a natural structure outside.

So a piece of rock or a sort of cliff face.

But buildings are seen as a separate entity.

Things like parkour and things are closed.

closely linked to climbing but we wouldn't call them the sort of raw climbing that most of us think of.

So it does seem more like a sort of stunt action rather than him trying to do something like in free solo that had never been done before in the climbing community.