The Magical Wall

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With an ice dragon now under his control, the Night King is more formidable than ever. But for the time being, the people of Westeros still have one major advantage over the leader of the dead: However, with the threat of the White Walkers looming large, some fans believe the Wall is slated to come crashing down in the season seven finale.

The ice wall was originally built to defend the realm against the White Walkers, ice creatures who were created by the Children of the Forest in an effort to defend themselves against the First Men. But many also believe the Wall is a barrier to keep the Wildlings, or anyone who chooses to live outside the Seven Kingdoms, at bay. The Wall was made to guard the realms of men…and not against other men, which is all the Wildlings are when you come right down to it.

Too many years, Tarly, too many hundreds and thousands of years. We lost sight of the true enemy. The Wall in Game of Thrones is said to be warded with magic to prevent the dead from crossing over. And while it stands, the dead cannot pass. The Wall was supposedly constructed some eight millennia ago by giants and men under the direction of King Brandon Stark — a. Bran the Builder — following the War for the Dawn.

However, some fans believe that present-day Bran Stark and Bran the Builder are actually the same person. HBO fanned the flames of this theory when it showed Bran the Builder being carried around on a platform — indicating he may have been paralyzed just like Bran Stark — in a DVD extra about the history of Westeros on the season one box set. However, while the Watch once drew enough recruits to man up to 17 of its 19 castles at one time, there are now only three still guarded by sworn brothers — Castle Black , Eastwatch-by-the-Sea and the Shadow Tower.

Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children. I shall wear no crowns and win no glory. I shall live and die at my post. I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. We spent the first 5 days cleaning and working the pitches up to Mammoth Ledges, another 5 days to reach the 18th pitch, and another 8 days to climb to the top.

We fixed some static ropes along the route. After climbing everything from the bottom, we rappelled twice from the summit, staying on the wall for various days in order to work the final hard pitches and do some filming. So how many days did you invest in the route? In total we stayed on the face for over 30 days, which means we spent most of our Yosemite time on Magic Mushroom.

At first everything seemed impossible. That's why we spent so many days up there, trying each tough pitch until we found the best beta.

You said that it seemed impossible at first. The first half of the route mainly follows cracks and slabs, while most of the hard pitches follows corners.

The climbing is both technical and physical and you have to be really creative to understand how to unlock certain pitches. The footholds are almost non-existent, you have to do loads of knee-bars and constantly wedge your back As Babsi mentioned, we needed a lot of time to "decipher" some pitches. The route is really continuous, just think that one of the crux pitches is 40 meters below the summit! The best pitch for me was the last one, the 5.

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An overhanging crack with a section right at the end which, at least for me, was extremely difficult. This is probably one of the best pitches I've ever climbed, just below the rim of El Capitan.

This really is something special. After working the route you descended and got ready for the final push Barbara: Actually, somehow I never felt ready for the decisive attempt. My biggest problem was that last pitch just below the top. Although I could do the individual moves, I could never link them with with all the rest. During the first two days you climbed fast, making short work of 18 pitches, some of which happened to be wet. So you got off to a superb start.

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The real difficulties began: Those corners really are very complicated indeed! During the first 2 days of our final push we knew that everything had to run smoothly. That we had to climb all the pitches on our first go in order to achieve our daily goals. So there was no time for a breather. But when we reached the portaledge on the second day I felt pretty bad.

This was certainly our first crux moment. Fortunately we were on track time wise and therefore we had a rest day, which was important for both of us.

Then we continued climbing. Better, yes, but somehow I lacked energy and felt weak. But I was motivated to keep climbing. In total you spent 11 days on the wall on that final push After the first two days we chose to have a rest day, and then launch into the upper part with renewed energy. Since we knew we had enough time and food we tried not to "overdo" things and save energy. We almost never did more than 3, 4 pitches per day. We even rested two more days: The first in order to wait for a pitch to dry, the second to recuperate some strength.

So when you launched upwards, how many days had you planned? You climbed the route in December. We were extremely lucky with the weather.

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We only had a small snowstorm one night and a bit of rain the next morning, during our 4th day on the wall, otherwise the weather was always good and very hot. Sometimes we even climbed at night because it was too hot during the day, in December! For several days we were the only climbers up there… it was fantastic. How do you rate the route?

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