Video: Brendan Fairclough Rides A Crazy Steep Rock Slab in a World's First Descent

 Seems like you’ve lost your marble — this video rocks!

 A 50 second slab in the face - and a mighty slab it was. Yikes!!!

 I would like to see more adventure videos like this from Pinkers as well as the pros

 Meanwhile Remy rides a volcano, active volcano

 @WRCDH: Tippie's alt account?

 You kidding? That was the gnarliest shit. What a maniac.

 @mininhi: ...and publishes a full-length, minute for minute YouTube of it.

 @brianpark: Kinda trippy that you mention Tippie — I just referred to him in my Pinkbike / Crankworx MTB rap-poem yesterday, saying:

“I awoke the next morning to an extra chipper Tippie,
We hopped on the gondola, the peak was kinda nippy,”

The full lyrics can be found at the link below...just make sure to read it to an old school hip hop beat. But maybe I’ll just have to record it soon for the full and proper tall-skinny-white-guy-engineer-rapper effect =P : www.pinkbike.com/news/tech-briefing-a-helmet-holder-linkage-protector-new-apparel-and-more-september-2022.html

 @scott-townes: I wouldn't take it for granite that I was completely serious.

 @brianpark: Sorry, I guess I’m on another level of refined subtlety in word play, especially when it comes to rocks. I’ll try to dial it back next time and pick rock puns and sarcasm that are more obvious, while chiseling away at the advanced geology rhetoric, all in an effort to be more inclusive — especially as inclusivity is the bedrock of Pinkbike and its comments section. If I’m not inclusive, just remind me in a gravelly voice. Hey, see, I told you I could do it! (pick rock...chiseling...bedrock...gravelly...) =P

 @WRCDH: haha, gneiss. Well done digging up some geo jokes.

 @mininhi: Not impressed until somebody rides a Mobius Loop over a tank of sharks

 @WRCDH reminds me of doublecrownaddict

 I liked it. It takes you through how the whole thing unfolds. Not a 20 second video on Instagram. I wish more bike videos or Team videos during the world cup had more storyline like they used to.

 Awesome buddy.

 Rad!

 Don't call me Shirley...

 @dolface: haha I was going to write that ! Classic .

 @dolface: I left that in there hoping for a comment. Just waiting now for an outdoor/wilderness article referencing beavers, to pay homage to another spoof film.

 @rockhopper70: You're in cougar territory now, shirley.

 The rubber on a lot of flats is the same as approach shoe rubber, which is what climber use to approach climbs.

 Yup 5:10 shoes started out with climbing rubber on soles I believe. So while flats not good for trail hiking very good at slab walking.

 Anecdotally, my Freeriders are my preferred shoes for working steep roofs when my work boots don't have enough grip.

 I can indeed confirm that there was no plan. At all. Only to get to the top and get a drone shot

 @beneyh: at least the thick mist and sopping rain gave the footage a sense of atmosphere. . Although I suspect you’d have preferred that hike in dry, clear blue skies. I did wonder when you slipped how far you were going to go down that slope!

 Unlike Brendog, Rick Astley NEVER gives up!

 Damn, nearly 1.3 billion views and not a single discount code.

 Unbelievable how Rick just keeps rolling

 I knew what was gonna happen and I still clicked the link lol,

 Sik Rik, as he's called in the mtb scene

 @wake-n-rake: that's an OG flex right there.

 Matter of tine until someone builds a shitty tabletop jump on there

 A dropper failure would also be another interesting challenge

 I was gonna say, such a testament to the durability of that bike set up!

 but missing Tippies laughter.

 Busy climbing the slab