如果你前往加利福尼亞的約塞米蒂國家公園
shows just how powerful ice is
你會對冰如何塑造超大尺寸的景觀
at shaping the landscape on a gigantic scale.
有深刻印象
Rising up from the valley floor is an icon of nature.
許多懸崖被雕刻成為史詩
And a climber's mecca, El Capitan.
和攀巖者的圣地,酋長巖
For Leo Holding, an extreme climber,nothing quite matches this.
對于世界最好的攀巖者里奧侯丁來說 沒其他懸崖比得上它
And it's the ice that has made El Cap
冰雕刻出酋長巖
into perhaps the greatest challenge in rock climbing.
使它或許成為攀巖運動中最大的挑戰(zhàn)
We call El Cap the Big Daddy.
我們叫酋長巖做老爹
This is 1,000 metres high and it's damn near vertical the whole way.
它有一千米高 整個路徑幾乎是垂直的
Your initial reaction is terror.
你最初的反應(yīng)是恐怖
The scale of it is really intimidating, even to extremely experienced climbers.
這對于有經(jīng)驗的攀巖者來說都是很困難的
There's basically no easy way up it.
沒有簡單的路線攀登
It's the hardest cliff to climb in the world.
這是世界上最難攀爬的懸崖
The rock face is almost vertical.
巖石表面幾乎是垂直的