("How High" by Welshly Arms)
♪ Come back, come back ♪
♪ Down, down ♪
- [Levi] Every time we
plan to go up the Chief,
it's like we're going home.
One of the unwritten rules,
when it comes to rigging missions is,
carry as much weight as you possibly can
and pretend to enjoy
the following suffering up the mountain.
Between you and me. I
can just barely keep up.
♪ You're jumping in the deep end ♪
- [Levi] The Chief itself
is such an iconic backdrop,
towering over Squamish.
The deep gullies torn into
the side of the granite,
just so happened to make,
one of the best highlining
spots in the world.
♪ How high's too high to come back down ♪
♪ How high's too high to come back down ♪
♪ So high like the ceiling ♪
♪ So high on this feeling ♪
♪ That's lifting me up off the ground ♪
♪ How high's too high to
come back, come back down ♪
♪ To come back, come back down ♪
♪ To come back down ♪
- We're gonna try and rig all of these,
before it starts raining.
Yeah, we figure we got about three hours,
so I think we're just going
to take it one by one.
Yeah, I'm just going to throw
a tag line across right now.
I'm doing that.
♪ Divisive sounds, these ups and downs ♪
♪ The trip is where you take it ♪
♪ The trip is where you take it ♪
♪ We're face to face ♪
- [Levi] It's definitely
been well appreciated,
having the German crew around.
They bring a more focused
and serious approach to
just about everything.
I think they're enjoying
Canada so far, but honestly,
it can be hard to tell,
when you have no idea what
they're yelling at each other.
(yelling in foreign language)
(laughing)
- That's what they say.
♪ I find I'm finding my way back, no lie ♪
♪ How high's too high to come back down ♪
- A lot of people are so tired
after just hiking up here,
they don't have energy
to do anything else.
But for us, that's like,
that's the warm-up,
that's like where, that's
where it all starts.
And then after that, you have like,
the really physically demanding part,
which is walking the highline.
♪ How high's too high to come
back, come back down, down ♪
♪ To come back, come back down ♪
♪ To come back, come back down ♪
♪ So high like the ceiling ♪
♪ So high on this feeling ♪
♪ That's lifting me up off the ground ♪
♪ How high's too high to come back down ♪
- [Levi] The Europeans are monsters.
They really are, they're,
they're machines.
They're athletes,
they're out there every
minute that they can be.
It's just a change of pace, you know,
they have such a different style
and they have this
whole new bag of tricks,
that they're inventing.
♪ I am sound, go round and round ♪
♪ Feels too high to come back down ♪
- [Levi] What's the next word, free?
- Solo (laughing).
Um, yeah.
Do you want me to say something
about those two words?
("Love of the Game" by Welshly Arms)
- Free solo highlining is
when you walk the highline,
without any protection.
So, no harness, no leash,
nothing attaching you
to the line.
So if you were to fall, you would die.
(growling yell)
- Of course, it's something
very magical, I think,
about slacklining,
something quite challenging
and something quite pure at the same time.
- I do not think it is something
for the average person,
nor does the average person
feel they need to do it.
- Um, Yeah.
I free solo too (laughing).
- [Levi] Are you ready for people to know,
that you free solo?
One thing I learned
while following Spencer,
is how deeply personal the
motivations for soloing,
really are and rightly so,
it's not something that's
really talked about,
in the moments before it happens.
So this year, when Freidi
started walking at this slow
and steady pace over the line,
first established by the
legendary Dean Potter,
it wasn't hard to guess
what he had in mind.
♪ I ain't in it for the payday ♪
♪ I ain't in it for the champagne ♪
♪ I'm just in it for the
love, the love, the love ♪
♪ The love of the game ♪
♪ I ain't in it for the payday ♪
♪ I ain't in it for the champagne ♪
♪ I'm just in it for the
love, the love, the love ♪
♪ The love of the game ♪
- [Levi] Watching Freidi
solo was really cool for me,
because I had never been around
somebody else free soloing.
♪ Before he can make his own way ♪
♪ But you need to know that I
gotta go, and I'm out the door ♪
♪ You got to understand ♪
♪ I'm done playing games in the backyard ♪
- [Levi] It's so cool to see somebody
that you're so close with, progress.
While I'm thinking about it, you know,
it's just that, like,
feeling you got, like,
so proud, so proud of it.
- I've actually, to be absolutely honest,
I've been free soloing for quite a while.
My family probably thinks
that I have never free soloed.
- [Levi] When Freidi was last in Canada,
he had actually done some
solo walking of his own,
but not really anyone was around.
- He was very quiet about his solo thing
and there were really a
lot of people up there
and he did his free solo
just in front of everyone.
He said, okay, I think
right now it's the point,
I really can't hide it anymore.
("Salutations" by Christian Nanzell)
- [Levi] If I'm being honest,
I don't know exactly what it is,
that makes filming highlining,
so fascinating for me.
But there's something beautifully simple,
about all the work that goes in,
just so one person, at
one time, can go out
and push themselves just
a little bit further.
With most of us not really getting much
out of the waterlining at Brohm Lake,
I really feel like Mia had a
chance to warm up her legs,
and she really built her confidence,
before going up the Chief.
- Mia's crushing.
It's good.
She's doing her first double drop knee.
Yeah.
- [German] Hell yeah.
- Now look over, quit looking at us.
Look at all the glory.
(yelling growl)
(whooping exclamations)
That's awesome.
- One of the truly unique things,
that Spencer brings to the community,
is his genuine excitement
for seeing others push past their fears.
- Nice, doesn't that feel so cool.
(hands clapping)
Yeah.
- That was amazing.
I've never walked in the clouds before.
It was so cool.
- [Levi] Anytime that Mia
goes out on a highline,
there's a group of people,
that inevitably gathers
to watch and cheer her on.
And I think, part of what makes
their encouragement so genuine,
is that it truly is exciting
when someone's progressing
as fast as Mia is.
With all the lines now rigged,
the gathering has just
barely gotten started.
And as Mia gets more
comfortable with her fears,
I'm excited to see her test
yourself on some bigger lines.
- I can never get enough of
slow motion videos of these.
("Marasgertl" by Musica Para Estudiar)
Perfect.
I kind of just--
- Oh my God.
Did you ask people?
Okay, so you asked me a
bunch of stuff about Lukas.
Do you ask other people shit about me?
- [Levi] Oh probably, yeah.
- Oh my God.
- [Levi] Okay good, hit me in the face.
- [Spencer] Come on bud, pick us up.
Yeah dude, hold it.
(whooping yells)
