Watch Five Spring Trad Climbing Whippers
Your weekly dose of edge-of-your-seat whipper action
You can go your entire rock climbing life without taking a whipper if you’re careful enough, but more times than not you’ll run into a crux where falling is inevitable.
Below are five trad climbing whippers, be sure to follow Whipper for more. Always wear a helmet!
Whipper #1
In this not-so-bad crack fall, the quickdraw below the one that caught the climber gets unclipped.
Whipper #2
Will Stanhope is the only climber to free the entire Tom Egan Memorial Route 5.14 in the Bugaboos. This was his first redpoint attempt.
Whipper #3
James Pearson is one of the world’s top climbers of R-rated routes, but when you fall on when this happens.
Whipper #4
Steph Davis has long been one of America’s top climbers with countless new routes mostly done ground-up. In this clip, she finds a loose rock that she catches – likely saving her belayer who had no helmet.
Whipper #5
Fun looking route where the climber gets away with only a few scrapes after this fall.
