Worlds hardest Ice climb... Conqured!

This season Tim Emmett and Will Gadd conquered the massive Helmcken Falls in Wells Grey Provincial park in Clearwater BC. This is the only known ice climb in the world that is overhanging. They are not actually climbing on the falls they are climbing on the mist that is being blown onto the wall behind the falls. I have been to these falls during the fall, and they are some pretty amazing falls, if you ever get a chance to see them i would highly recommend it. I went to a talk by Tim Emmett last august where he showed the Squamish mountain festival visitors a sneak peak at this overhanging ice climb that he was working on. It was amazing just watching them prepare and get in the right mind set to even think about starting this kind of route. Since nothing like this has ever been done before, they were definitely walking into unknown territories. Props to them though being able to do such a hard climb. It took them 4 hour to complete the climb which is a long time to be siting on the wall freezing. Below is a picture that i got from a news article on the climb if you want you can get some more information from the site as well. (http://www.news.com.au/travel/news/daredevils-conquer-worlds-hardest-climb-at-wells-grey-provincial-park/story-e6frfq80-1226217061928) As well there is a picture of the falls that i took when i visited wells grey provincial park a couple years ago

Where is the sport of Ice climbing going to go next? I guess we will have to wait and see