Climbing Adventures with Yin, Wallace and Sheldon

This is a shot of Wallace making a very fluid ascent of "Spiderman". This vantage point was created by lying down with my back on the rocky earth, my head at Sheldon's feet while using a wide angle lens to shoot straight up the wall. I wanted, primarily, to convey the bareness, and skill of the climb, as one ascends from large cracks to smaller holds and on to mere dimples in the rock when approaching the crux. The amount of balance and grace needed to surpass the crux on this route is astounding, as it is a, not so simple, movement of replacing ones hand with a foot, where the hold upon which the swap is made is a miniscule depressions in the rock. At the moment this shot was taken, Wallace had just negotiated his way through the crux of the climb and is about to disappear from our view as he breaks the skyline. This is a wonderful climb for anyone who enjoys slab.