Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago

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Today I'm joined by none other than Alex Honnold and @STORROR for a special climbing challenge. We try to climb the infamous "plumber's crack", a 5.9 in Red Rocks, Nevada, up and down as fast as we possibly can. The current record is 25.97 seconds, held by Alex Waterhouse, and we muster up all our brain power to see how we can do it faster.

Here's the footage of Waterhouse doing it:
instagram.com/p/DEdPST7SboF

Note that we figure out different methods to do this, which could be seen as a different challenge. Nevertheless, we had good fun and a great time.

My gear:
Favorite shoes
MadRock Drone madrock.com/collections/shoes/products/dronehv
MadRock Drone CS madrock.com/collections/shoes/products/drone-cs-hv

Instagram:
instagram.com/emil_abrahamsson_
instagram.com/cordiclimbs

Filmed by Cordelia Mangia Jansson
Edited by Emil Abrahamsson
Additional footage by STORROR