Late last year, I made a trip way south to Chile to meet up with my buddy Facundo Langbehn and his family who have been climbing and establishing an amazing area outside of Santiago called La Silla Del Diablo (The Devil’s Throne).
I unfortunately arrived with a stomach flu and left with a sinus infection and bronchitis… not a great recipe for trying to climb hard. However, I still had an amazing time and was lucky enough to watch Facu make the first ascent of Chile’s hardest boulder problem, “Alma,” 8C/V15. I sampled a few of the best lines in the area and even established an awesome one of my own, “Eternal Return,” 8A/V11.
Despite not getting to climb much, it allowed me to truly take in the scenery of La Silla and capture it for this short film. I hope you all enjoy it!
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34 Comments
Such an incredible video! Very motivating!!
What a great edit and video Paul , i saw you with my brother in La Silla and we help you to downclimb a rock hahaha , nice to see you
This one should be on a big screen!
🔥🔥🔥🔥
You've come a long way great climber! Amazing edit. Perfect! Psyched!
masterpiece, bravo!
🔥🔥🔥🔥
Sick edit and climbs of my favorite thing place to climb 🔥🔥
Very cool film, Paul. The drone shots and the editing are amazing (the climbing too!)
That´s a piece of art. Superb editing! And of course crazy good climbing.
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 insaaaane video dude!
This footage and this edit are so sick!
Increíble la edición 💪💪
Cool edit and track 1
Beautiful edit and koodos on the sends. Hella inspiring!
this was great!
incredible edit, congratulations. I am glad you got to know a portion of the Andes.
I always appreciate the music you choose in your edits….very nice
Nothing but bangers from PRob 🫡
Great edit, superb shots, very enjoyable coloring
If climbing were bigger this could be an ad for Chile.
The pacing of the cuts and diversity of scenes was very well-chosen. Even the slow-motion worked, conveyed a feeling of focus and flow rather than trying to be „epic“.
Can‘t imagine how much time this required. Favourite boulder in there: eternal return.
The only downside: the tracked text at 0:40 was jumping a bit, maybe just giving it a straight line instead of fitting it onto the precise movement would have made it a bit smoother.
Thanks for the share
This video is so fucking sick it's unreal. Editing was soooo cool haha
Really captivating ❤
such a cool vide and awesome climbing
That was very very nice. Epic shots of an epic landscape and the climbing looked awesome too
Man, I'd love to see you take a crack at Burden of Dreams.
Seems like the kind of problem that would really play to your strengths 🙂
Sick Video and awesome shots. Would have loved to see more details from Alma
Damn that edit was 🔥🔥🔥
sweeet vid, even sweeter rigs
In a sea of 25 min vlogs it's cool to see some visual storytelling. Excellent job 💪
Great video. I feel like the esthetic it’s inspired in DARK, this german series. Is it?🧐
We’ve all seen climbing videos where the climbing is really cool, but the editing or the color grading really takes away from it.
This is not one of them. The color grading is superb, especially the drone shots. Like someone said in the comments, this could be an ad for Chile because it looks so majestic, even with some vibrancy.
The climbing looks really cool, but some of the shots are sick. The framing at the end of Osaka really shows your position in all of it even though you were working this one boulder.
And, as per usual, the music is sick and has a cool flow to the climb.
Looks like all that rain in Africa gave you time to edit a beautiful piece!
wow! extremly good editing!!!
beautiful film Paul! Thanks alot.