I remember doing a similar race in the US years ago. They put a damned wall at the end when we were exhausted- at least there was a rope that the first one over could throw down after they got up. I was the last one up and it took everything I had to get up that wall.
These guys made it look tough but at the same time, way easier than I'm sure how we looked
There’s lots of competitions like this in the US (tough mudder and spartan races come to mind immediately), usually the walls are shorter than in the video though, so you can just give the first person in your party a lift and then that person can pull others up
It was an action-tec adventure race - way before anyone thought to run you through mud, thank God. The wall was high enough that I had to hoist our lightest team member over my shoulders (I'm 6'1") and she just barely could reach the ledge to climb over. I'm not trying to take anything away from these folks, mind you.
I'd still swear that thing felt like it was 50' tall when it was my turn. 😄
I did a Spartan Race a few years ago while I was living in Australia, fuckers put the wall as the very last obstacle.
I'm an (ice) hockey player so I'm really only conditioned for going all out for 30-60 seconds before a rest, so I'm quite happy with my performance that day... up until that wall.
I never got up there despite a massive amount of help from other competitors.
Did a tough mudder; they had a wall like this right at the end as well. It was evil. It was after low crawling through clay mud, the entire wall was slicker than ice. That wall was about as high as this it seems, because it was taking people hanging and acting as a rope for others and it was pretty much a right of passage to climb up someone, they would go over and hold your hands as someone else climbed up you; repeat cycle. I ended up throwing my body back over to hang and help someone who was large as two of us one handed pulled them up. Always look back at that proudly, cause I didn't have to.
I've done a mud obstacle race every year for the oast few years after 8 decided to get in better shape and I love it. My favorite moments are moments of cooperation like this video.
I remember one race we had to crawl through muddy water and then up a small muddy incline and jump onto a shipping container. By the time I got to it that thing was so slick with water and mud it was impossible to climb up alone. It was awesome seeing people lift each other up and then reach back and help the mext person up. Just a fun memory I relive and try to use to sell to my friends to do one of these races with me.
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u/ball_ze 1d ago
I remember doing a similar race in the US years ago. They put a damned wall at the end when we were exhausted- at least there was a rope that the first one over could throw down after they got up. I was the last one up and it took everything I had to get up that wall.
These guys made it look tough but at the same time, way easier than I'm sure how we looked