[tense music]
♪ ♪
- Here?
- Here it is. - Wow.
- Welcome to my backyard crag.
- Wow. - This is one of the oldest
sport climbs in all of Spain.
- It looks amazing.
Look at that.
This is amazing, man.
- It's a frickin' epic spot.
Super good rock.
There's, like, some really hard routes.
- How hard is it? - The route that they're
gonna do for the competition, it's fucking hard, dude.
Like, this route is way harder than they've ever tried.
It's gonna be, like, at their limit or maybe
even beyond their limit. - Yeah.
- I mean, we all love getting to the top,
but when you're trying your hardest,
you know, most of the time it's about failing.
- That's the thing I try to tell my children.
They get bummed out for falling.
I'm like, no, that's the best stuff.
I mean, you need to fall in life.
That's when you're at your point.
- That's, like, the magic spot of life right there,
is, like, when you're pushing your limits.
You're not sure if it's possible.
And most of the time, you do fail.
But once in a while, it happens.
And that's, like-- that's where the magic is.
So like, I'm gonna do this route
that comes right up the middle. This is freaking--
- Those blue draws right there? - Yeah, that blue draw.
It always kicks my ass. - So the hardest in this cave
is the one you're gonna do? - Yeah.
I just like the climb, dude.
[exciting music]
- Ooh! Look at this new rope, bro.
Look good.
Yeah!
Yahoo!
[echoes]
That's fucking awesome.
Whoo! Climb it, bro.
- This first section's kind of tricky, actually.
- You look good. - It's just, like,
frickin' super steep.
Agh. - Nice, buddy.
- There's a lot of different holds,
so it's easy to get lost.
- I've climbed with him for many, many, many years,
but I've never climbed something this advanced.
- It hurts just so much on your arm, so.
- Yeah. - It's really gonna be about
that upper-body stamina.
You know, tight here, this is where the crux comes, so.
- That's the crux right there? - Yeah.
The hardest part of the route coming up right here.
♪ ♪
Agh. - That's sick.
Pfft. Beast.
- [grunting]
- Come on!
- [yells]
- Damn, man.
- [yelling]
- Yeah!
- Ah!
- Come on.
Yeah.
Whew, that was epic.
- Yeah, dude. - Shit.
- It's fucking epic. - I'm worn out.
- It's just super physical.
- Whoo! - You ready?
- I was born ready.
- [yelling]
- Yeehaw!
[atmospheric music]
♪ ♪
- This is an incredibly personal place for me.
This was the perfect place for me to kind of set up shop
and really kind of explore that whole world
of high-end sport climbing.
- Do we walk through the door?
- Wow. - Or do we go through the side?
- It's really special to take these climbers to my home
and really kind of instill upon them,
you know, the meaning of this place.
- Whoa. - Wow.
- This is lovely.
- This is beautiful. - Right on.
- Welcome, guys.
- Oh, my God. - Welcome.
- Morning. - Good to see you guys.
Good morning. Welcome to my pad.
- Nice. - Solid setup.
- This has been my home base,
headquarters for hard climbing.
Got to this point where if I wanted to continue
to, like, progress in my climbing,
I needed to develop my own routes.
And I felt like I needed to be in one place to do that, right?
And so it seemed like this is a good spot.
And, yeah, so come this way.
Check out my climbing wall.
So you can see all these ones right here?
But all these ones that are kind of natural style,
they're made with just resin and sand
from the beach in Mallorca...
- Oh, wow. - Which is kind of cool.
Yeah. Yeah. - That's awesome.
- It's really nice of Chris to share his house with us.
It was stunning.
Like, the view from his house is so pretty,
and he's got this cool wall he built.
I mean, I would live there, too.
- Oh, yeah. There's not a ton of room inside,
so you're actually gonna be camping outside.
[laughter] - Mm-hmm.
- There's literally not enough beds
inside the house, so.
Don't worry. It's gonna be good.
- I like camping. It's nice to be outside.
And so it'll be kind of nice to just, like,
chill in a tent and keep it simple.
- Oh, yours is huge, Brad.
- I know. But it's really complicated.
- I've been a Boy Scout all my life,
and I've been camping since I was, like,
I don't know, maybe nine.
I've set up, like, so many tents in my life,
so many different ones.
- I already have compared this situation to summer camp
because that's kind of what it feels like
when we're all just, like, in this, like,
intense, isolated bubble together.
So now it just totally fits the bill.
Oh, yeah. And then it's got a little metal clasp.
- Cool. Okay.
- Something about camping is,
it's actually quite hard to recover
when you're exposed to the elements while you're sleeping.
So I think it's gonna add a little bit
of interest to the climbing.
[serene music]
♪ ♪
[intense music]
♪ ♪
- Oh, this is gonna be good!
Let's get it. - Yeah, let's get it.
- I don't think I've ever seen this much rock
in a single place ever in my life.
It's a very impressive place for climbing, for sure.
- Agh. - Dom, are you gonna be okay?
- Oh, yeah.
I'm, like, taped, braced,
freakin' these unnecessary things.
Oh, it's gonna be great.
Last round, I just got hit with a string of bad luck.
Unfortunately, like, tweaked my knee,
and right when I did that,
just, like, shooting pain through the knees.
Like, fuck.
And I had a few days of rest,
taking anti-inflammatories,
you know, doing whatever I can to reduce inflammation.
And we'll see what happens.
- Hey, guys. - Hello.
- What's up? - All right.
It's good to see you guys. - Whoa.
- Awesome. - Isn't it?
Super cool. - Welcome, Cat.
- Whoa. - It's cool, huh?
- Oh, my God. It's so steep!
- Welcome to Sant Llorenc de Montgai
and this beautiful cave.
It's a really classic route.
It's kind of a quintessential sport route.
It's different than the route in Siurana.
It's a little more sustained.
It is steep as well.
[intense music]
♪ ♪
This main climb, it's 70 feet long.
The bottom section features a lot of polished rock,
which is harder to grip.
The crux of this route is a series of strenuous moves
that starts in that crack in the cave.
From there, the route gets steeper and steeper
until it becomes completely horizontal,
leading to a brutal 10-move sequence
that will require all of the upper-body strength
you have left.
Then it's five more moves to the top anchor.
This is the hardest route you guys have tried so far.
So it's gonna be really interesting
to see you all up there.
- It's definitely a little intimidating.
It's different from what we've been doing, for sure.
Like, steep climbing, overhung.
It's gonna be really hard, to be honest.
- During this, you know, leg of the journey,
we really want to dive into this,
the whole experience of projecting something
before the main climb tomorrow.
The concept of projecting something is, like, the chance
to kind of sample and rehearse the movements,
you know, through this process of trial and error.
You know, figure out the body position, figure out,
you know, where the handholds and the footholds are,
so that you can optimize your strength and endurance.
And I think for this climb in particular,
that's really important.
- You're gonna each have 20 minutes
to project this route however you like.
You can stop at every draw if you want.
You can go for a high point
and then work from there.
20 full minutes per person.
- It's a challenge to try and, like,
condense all of the learning on the projecting day
for the main climb.
Projecting takes a lot of time typically
and, in this environment, we still are really limited.
- Definitely there's strategy. I mean, think about
how you want to use those 20 minutes
to suss out the sections.
Cool. Let's do it. - Ready to climb?
- Yeah. - Let's go.
[intense music]
♪ ♪
- [muttering]
Come in here.
That's good.
My knee, I could feel it kind of talking to me.
It's, like, hey, be really careful
about what holds you use.
Here. Here.
- Yeah, I think that's it there, Dom.
Yeah. I think, like,
left hand up in that scoop, yeah.
- Yeah. I felt it.
It was, like, I knew that it just wasn't right.
Something was wrong.
Now I'm getting into the crux.
- That's time.
- Aw. - I'm sorry.
- That's okay.
What can I do, you know?
How can I prevent making it worse
while still trying to progress on this journey?
- Cha-cha-cha-cha. - Mm.
- Dude, good work, good work. - Thank you.
That was fun.
[intense music]
♪ ♪
- Take.
- How you feeling, Cat?
- Pumped.
Oh, so pumped.
- Being pumped means when you start to get tired
and you start to feel that lactic acid
come into your forearms.
- Ah!
Fuck.
- It can really affect your ability to climb.
- Good! - Oh, shoot!
I'm just--I'm just exhausted.
- I don't think most of them have that experience
of projecting a hard route.
- Here and here. All right.
Climbing, Brad.
- You really have to try to conserve that energy.
- [grunting]
Ugh. [panting]
- They've all approached it slightly differently,
how they're trying to figure out the sections
and rehearse them.
- Ah!
[laughs] I'm so boxed.
- Whoa, jeez.
Just fucking came right out of that thing.
- Come on.
- You got it, Brad. Just think about it.
- Good try, Brad.
- Come on, Brad.
- Ah!
Just so pumped.
- Brad had a really hard time with our projecting round.
And that's definitely surprising.
- I'm gonna jug just one more time
here, Deco. - All right.
- Brad has, you know, won each round up until now.
♪ ♪
- Yes! Come on. - Yeah, Brad!
- Come on, Brad.
- But the cool thing about Brad is he is willing
to just give it, you know, 200%, and I think he really has
what it takes to be one of the people
that could win this thing.
- Release the beast, brother.
Come on.
- Yeah, there it is. - Yeah.
Yes! - There it is.
- Fuck yeah. - Good.
Good, Brad.
- Brad is fantastic.
He's amazing, seriously.
He's our golden boy.
Yes!
Brad is just one of those people that have,
like, so much in the tank.
He burns, brother, he burns.
- [yelling] - Whoo!
- Nice. - There it is.
- Deco, you can just take me up there.
- It's gonna be really interesting, just,
you know, these guys had a chance to try it.
Now they're gonna go home, they're gonna be, like,
replaying this route in their head.
You know, there is this process of muscle memory.
These movements actually become,
like, ingrained in your body.
And so I think that could really
be interesting to see how that king of plays out
for them when they get back on this route.
[guitar playing]
- Yeah, yeah, for sure.
- The nice thing is, like, when we go out and climb for,
like, fun or just, like, a session,
you tend to climb and hang out with people
who have the same energy vibe as you.
- Nice.
Come into the yellow.
Left hand and then bump to this one after.
- Is this, like, the first time you've really
traveled overseas to climb or--
- Like, I haven't been overseas,
like, just to climb for myself.
- Yeah. Yeah. - You know?
- Right now, I'm studying at MSU Bozeman.
I'm studying cell biology and neuroscience.
I'm in my fourth year of undergraduate,
and I want to go to med school eventually.
That's kind of my plan.
Ever since coming to Spain,
I've just been continuing school online,
and doing finals and tests
and stuff online in the evenings,
which has been, you know, somewhat stressful.
I would totally become a pro climber.
That would be so inspiring to me.
But I think it's easier to picture myself being a doctor
because that's kind of the path I've gone on.
But we'll see. It's a difficult thing,
finding the balance between, like, school and climbing.
And sometimes you've just got to, like,
try and make it work.
[serene music]
♪ ♪
- How you feeling?
- I'm getting there.
- But you, like, want more? You want more?
Like, something--
- Actually, you know what?
- You good? Your knee's good?
- Still, like, feels a little unstable.
It's kind of unfortunate being this far in the competition
and have this injury.
In the back of my head, like, all right, like,
are we gonna be able to continue or,
you know, what's it gonna be?
You know, going in to getting checked out
and getting my MRI,
I worried that this could be my time.
I didn't want to be dealing with an injury,
but I learned at a very young age that life is not fair.
I grew up in Southern California.
I had a lot of love from my family.
I'm raised by women,
like, incredibly nurturing environment.
But my father wasn't there.
And, you know, that kind of left a big scar growing up.
I definitely battled my demons.
After college, I felt lost,
and I needed something
to get me out of little spells of depression.
I needed a positive outlet.
I went to a gym.
It just called me in.
But since finding rock climbing,
there's definitely been more balance in my life.
It allowed me to be free,
ultimately created more opportunities.
I can only hope that I can help facilitate that
in someone else the way that it happened to me.
And so this means everything.
We'll see what the MRI says, but, you know,
preparing for the worst and hoping for the best.
♪ ♪
[intense music]
♪ ♪
- Welcome back to this epic cave.
You're gonna have to try harder than you've ever tried before.
At the same time, it's all about conserving your energy.
Stay aware and also just enjoy this.
You know, this is an amazing route.
- Let's get it started.
Cat, you're up first.
♪ ♪
- Biggest strategy for the main climb--
I have my two places that I'm gonna rest.
The goal is to be efficient,
not over-grip, get to the rests.
Slow down the heart rate and just, like,
manage the pump because it's gonna be there.
- All right, Cat, are you ready?
- Ready. - All right.
Begin climbing now.
- The interesting things,
it's a different kind of nervousness.
You know, when you've never tried a route before,
you're nervous, you don't know what's gonna come.
- Mm-hmm. - But in this situation,
you're nervous because... - You know.
- You do know, but you're not sure
how you're gonna feel. - Yep.
I bet he'll rest here just for a little bit to--
- I hope so, I hope so.
- Right before that first crux,
I feel like this is a good spot to just,
like, take a second.
Oh, he's not gonna rest.
Okay, so he's just gonna go for the crux.
- Come on. - Come on, Cat.
Nice. - Nice.
- Good. - Come on, Cat.
Come on, Cat. Stick with it.
- So he's through that first crux.
When he clips that next draw, he'll be at the halfway point.
He's getting ready to approach
the most difficult part of the route.
- Come on. Breathe, man.
- Come on, Cat. - Come on.
Come on. - All right, here we go.
- Come on, Cat.
Yes, Cat. Come on.
Allez. Allez!
[overlapping shouts]
♪ ♪
- [yells]
♪ ♪
- Oh!
Good effort!
[cheering]
Awesome job, Cat.
- I'm a little pumped.
- My strategy going into this climb
is persevere, persevere, persevere,
and hold on for as long as you bloody well can.
[laughs]
- All right, Tiffany, are you ready?
- Yeah.
- Begin climbing now.
- You got this, Tiff.
Come on.
- Come on, Tiffany.
♪ ♪
She's already gone to an elimination climb,
so I know she's kind of feeling the pressure going into this.
She's looking confident at the beginning.
- Keep breathing. Looking solid.
- Yeah. - Really good.
- Good, Tiffany. - Keep breathing.
- Nicely through that move into the first rest.
- Good, Tiff. Come on.
- I know she's definitely worried about that crux,
but she's in a good resting position
setting up for that first difficult section.
Really good, Tiffany. Come on.
You can do this. - Get psyched.
- You got this. - Get psyched.
- Come on, Tiff. - Come on. Go get it.
- Come on.
- Sh-- - Ah!
- Just, like-- - Good effort, Tiffany.
[applause]
- This--ugh.
- I feel like her hips were too far away from the wall.
She's not, like, pulling in enough.
- Yeah, you did good. You did good.
Yeah. - That was a good go.
- Yeah. You did good.
both: It was good.
- Did good. It's a hard move.
- Yeah, it's hard move. It was a hard move.
♪ ♪
- Come on, Alice. Good.
Come on, Alice.
Good.
- Got it, Alice.
Good stuff.
- You got this. - Come on, get psyched.
- Come on, Alice. - Get psyched.
Come on.
- [yelling]
[cheering, shouting]
- [grunting and yelling]
[laughing]
- Awesome job.
- That was cool how she stuck it up.
- Good fight, Alice.
So she made it past Tiffany.
- That was the move that I'm most worried
in the whole route.
It's very shoulder.
- Okay. I got to take care of this.
- That's a lot of blood.
Come on, Deco.
- [grunting]
♪ ♪
- Good, Deco.
- Come on, Deco.
- Yes. - Nice.
There you go. - Nice.
- Good, Deco. - Come on.
- Still below where Cat got, though.
- I'm with you. Come on, Deco.
- [grunts]
- You can do this! - Come on, Deco.
- [yells]
- Nice work, dude. - Good effort, Deco.
- That was good. - Hell yeah.
Good work. - Great effort.
- That was awesome.
- Relax.
- Good.
- Come on, Robyn. Get psyched, huh?
♪ ♪
- Yeah!
Come on, Robyn. - Come on!
- Come on, Robyn.
Yeah. - Nice. Come on.
- Nice. Come on--oh, no.
- Dang it. - Awesome climbing, Robyn.
Very good.
- Oh, that was so cool. - Amazing.
Whoo-whoo!
That was great.
- Thanks. - Go, Robyn!
- Dang. Dang.
- I'm nervous.
For the past day, I've been going over every single
move in my mind, like, a million times,
and it's definitely the hardest route I've ever done.
- You got this, brother. - Yeah.
- All right, Brad, are you ready?
- Ready as I'll ever be.
- All right. Begin climbing now.
♪ ♪
I'm really interested to see what happens for him.
Come on, Brad.
Just working his way into that groove section.
♪ ♪
Come on. - Come on.
- [yells] - Come on.
Come on. Nice, Brad.
Come on. Come on. - Come on, Brad.
Fight through it. - You got it, Brad.
- Fight through it.
- Yeah!
- [yells] - Get that foot on.
♪ ♪
- Come on.
- Fuck, dude! - Ugh, dang.
- God damn it. Just cut feet there.
- Good fight.
- It was a good one, brother.
- So he did get a move higher than Tiffany.
- Fuck.
- You can tell he's really upset.
- We all know that Brad's one of the best of us climbers.
It was a bit shocking seeing him not climbing
to the best of his ability
- Ugh. So frustrating.
- I know. I know.
- Let's go, Dom.
- I still don't know exactly what's going on with my knee.
If I do encounter a movement that would make it worse,
I'll just try to skirt around it to the best of my ability
and just kind of go from there.
[yells]
[cheering]
- Coming back from an injury, it can be really difficult.
Not only are you physically recovering,
but what I find to be even more difficult is being able
to trust your ability.
That's when accidents can happen.
[cheering]
- Solid, brother. Solid.
I think that Dom, you know,
cope with injuries in a different way.
He's gonna try to make everything work
using his upper body, and that's him, man.
Yes, dude.
Stretch those arms, brother.
He's such a powerful dude, you know.
He's, like, jacked, and he has, like,
the power to do anything he wants.
- Find the holds. You got this.
- Only good holds until the upper crux, brother.
You got this.
Come on, man, come on.
♪ ♪
- So now he's past where Robyn was.
- You got it. - Come on.
You got it. Good hold.
- Come on, Dom. - That's a good hold.
- Come on. - [yells]
Yeah--oh, my God.
- Good effort. - Good effort!
[cheering] - Good work, Dom.
- So the shots came out. Ow!
- Dom definitely had a lot of doubt about his knee
and how that was gonna affect him on this climb.
So I have to say, I was very happy to see him
persevere through this hard moment
and get back into his climbing groove.
And it was super good to see.
- Cut that thing into pieces, man, seriously.
So much power.
- I'd be lying to say
that this injury didn't make me feel
a little disheartened in the competition.
But my pain's not that bad,
and I'm just kind of using that as inspiration.
Like, you know, you still can do something.
Don't count yourself out.
- Good effort to all of you guys.
I could tell that you all really gave solid efforts.
You should all feel proud about that.
- Cat, you were the one with the high point today.
Really awesome job, too.
[cheering]
- Nice, Cat! - Go, Cat!
[laughter]
- Yeah! - Beast mode.
- So the two people that are gonna be
going head-to-head on the elimination climb
are Tiffany...
and Brad.
- I mean, I knew that, like, after falling on that move,
then it was up to, you know, fate.
But we'll see.
Things happen sometimes when you're climbing
and they just don't always go your way.
And I think in the past three weeks,
I think I've been lucky enough
where things kind of have gone my way.
But at some point, your luck runs out.
And so I'm hoping it's not this week.
I want to stay on this journey.
[phone beeps]
- [speaking Spanish]
- I'm hopeful getting my MRI results
and see exactly the extent of the damage.
So I'm hoping that I can still compete in this competition.
- The meniscus are...
both: Normale. - Good, okay.
- Okay, there is a chronic, mmm, tendinopathy?
- Like tendonitis? - Yeah.
- Mm-hmm. - Which he says is normal
with the age and the time.
- Mm-hmm. - So nothing we are--
everything's okay. You can climb.
- Dope. - [laughs]
- That's a blessing.
It seems as if it's more of a contusion to my knee,
and that's good news.
That's really good news because that inspires
a bit more confidence, and also I know
that the healing process will be much shorter
than what was anticipated.
So yeah, I'm pretty excited about that.
I definitely feel relieved knowing that I can continue.
It's, like, nothing that's gonna take too long to heal.
And just being mindful with my movement,
it should be good for the future.
I'm psyched.
We'll go into it, see what we can do,
give my best and, you know, and see what happens.
Yes. [laughter]
- This could definitely be the stage of a "Jurassic Park."
Just imagine T-Rex running from those woods, you know.
- Just coming out of the water. - And people just,
we need to cross over this bridge.
- And they're all on the bridge.
- And suddenly, like, the bridge collapses,
and you're just, like, hanging on your nails
on these things, you know, like climbers.
And T-Rex has those little, tiny little claws.
But then he falls, and that's pretty much the end.
- If Deco wasn't here, it would be much quieter,
that's for sure.
He always has something to say.
He brings this kind of vivaciousness to the group.
Very mystical and mysterious.
- Mm-hmm.
- I felt a lot of emotion yesterday.
I am competitive. I do care
about doing well just in general.
It's kind of fun.
But I was like, man, I'm tired.
- It's, exhausting because I feel like every week,
like, I'm fighting uphill against something.
- Mm-hmm. - These last few weeks,
it's been tough, and I can feel it,
Like, that exhaustion is real.
- We're all exhausted,
and that's because, like, we're all, like, very,
like, outside of our comfort zones for a long, long time.
- Mm-hmm. - Yeah.
- But the only thing that you can do
to be okay with whatever happens
is giving your best, you know.
Sometimes life's gonna get you into some tough situations,
and you either gonna rise up to the occasion and persevere,
or you're gonna fall.
- Do I want to keep going?
- Mm-hmm. - Yes.
Am I going to keep fighting?
Yes.
So I know I'm not done.
I want to be here, and I want to stay here.
And I want to keep up on this journey, like, with all of you.
[tender music]
♪ ♪
- Hey, y'all. Enjoy this place.
It really is special for me that you guys are here
in my home. - It's wonderful.
- Thank you for having us. - Thank you.
- I don't know if you noticed,
but we made ourselves at home.
- Yeah. - For sure.
[laughter] We moved right in.
- How are y'all feeling about y'all's climb tomorrow?
- I mean, there's, like, a whole bunch of things
that are probably, like, suboptimal, like physically,
in terms of, like, where my body's at
and the level of exhaustion that I'm feeling.
But it's the intention of just, like, doing your best,
like, with whatever circumstances you've got,
and that's all you can kind of lead with really.
Going into this elimination climb,
obviously there is the part of me which is full of doubt.
I know Brad is just such a spearheading climber.
Every challenge he has been presented with,
he's just gone so wild,
so I know that there is every possibility
that I might end up going home.
I just want to say, the things that you have done
has just been mind-blowing.
- Tomorrow, regardless of who wins or loses,
you guys just are fucking light, man.
You guys are made to shine.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Tiffany, Brad, this is gonna be your elimination climb.
It's this beautiful tufa climb.
It's one of my favorite routes here.
It's a good climb.
- It's a nice-looking route, guys.
A little bit of slant, a little bit of vert.
- For this elimination climb,
I chose this beautiful tufa climb.
Basically where water has tripped over the rock
and created this kind of column formation on the rock.
It's actually one of the first routes I brought Jason on
when he came to visit.
- Looks beautiful.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
[intense music]
♪ ♪
- The route is 100 feet high.
After the intro section,
you'll reach the tufa at 20 feet.
From there, you'll be climbing a series of moves
on vertical edges and pockets
to reach an eight-move crux to get to one large pocket.
This is the only resting spot before the final 20 feet
of climbing to the top anchor point.
- So Tiffany, because you scored lowest
on the main climb, you're gonna go first.
So Brad, you're gonna get to watch her on the climb.
- Going into this elimination climb, you know,
there's gonna be hard moves, and I'm anticipating that.
And it can end so quickly.
You know, just falling on one move,
if you make one mistake or one foot slip.
And that's a little bit nerve-wracking,
but at the same time you can't let it get to your head.
- Every challenge we've been through has been, like,
such a test for me to continue to dig deep and persist.
I know the one thing I can do is to keep fighting,
and that is what I do.
- All right, Tiffany, are you ready?
- Yeah. - Begin climbing now.
- Go, Tiff! - Get it, Tiff!
Come on. - Come on!
- You got this.
- I know that I'm giving everything.
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
- That's a big tufa.
- She's getting into that tufa section.
Kind of the first tricky part of the route.
- Come on, Tiff.
- Come on.
- Moving nicely through it.
- Awesome, Tiff.
- This is the best I've seen her look
so far in the competition.
She looks the most confident here.
- Great climbing. Keep it up.
- I'm not ready to go home yet.
And I was exhausted as I am,
and as battered as I'm feeling,
that part in my heart, that fire,
is, like, still there, and it says,
I'm not done fighting.
♪ ♪
- Nice, Tiff.
She's crushing it.
- Come on.
- Damn it.
- Do you see that jam with her foot?
That's smart. I like that.
She only has about 10 feet left.
- Come on, Tiff, come on. - She just has to be confident.
- Yes. - Nice.
- Good, Tiffany. Come on.
Come on, Tiffany!
You got it, Tiffany.
- Just has to put that other [indistinct].
- Nice, Tiff. - Nice.
- I'm in! - Nice, Tiff!
- Tiffany, good job! - Nice, Tiff!
- Great work, Tiff! [cheering]
- [sighs] - Nice job!
- Ow-ow! - Agh!
- That last part was a little, like, nail-bitey.
- It's a really good climb.
It's beautiful, so.
I needed to work it out a bit, but at the top bit.
Glad I stuck with it. [laughs]
I'm really, really happy with my climbing.
And I knew it was just a case of, like,
keeping it together and pacing myself.
And I've been through so many battles
in my own life with my own body.
I've been frustrated, and I have struggled
over these last few weeks,
but I think perseverance is the one thing
that's keeping me going, and it felt so good.
- I'm extremely proud of Tiffany.
When she gets knocked down,
she's a fighter who does not give up.
- Nice work.
- Take your time, brother. - Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
- You saw how it's done.
- So I'm a little nervous going into this,
but I'm excited to climb.
I'm confident I can do those moves.
I know that I can do those moves.
I just need to be able to focus
on climbing as best as I can.
- All right, Brad, are you ready?
- Yeah. - All right.
Begin climbing now.
- Go, Brad. - Come on, Brad.
- Go, Brad. - You got this, Brad.
- You got this. - You know what to do.
- Brad has tried hard like no one else that I've ever seen.
He digs his teeth in and fights to the very end.
♪ ♪
- Take your time, Brad. You got this.
- Really scope this section out.
- All right, so he's starting to climb into the tufa.
- Nice, Brad.
- Nice, dude. Come on.
- Nice. - Nice.
- You can do it. Come on, trust yourself.
He's into that middle section of the tufa.
Kind of interested to see what Brad does here
because he did watch Tiffany, so there's a chance
he does try the same thing she did,
which is really gonna put a lot of pressure
on choosing the right footholds.
♪ ♪
Come on, Brad.
- Come on, Brad. - Good, Brad.
- Good movement.
- Good, Brad.
♪ ♪
- You can do it, Brad. - Come on, Brad.
Just think about it.
- Ah! - [gasps]
- Ohh. - Oh, my God.
- Oh, I just slipped out of that thing.
- Oh, shoot.
He miscalculated.
Wow.
[somber music]
Oh, man
♪ ♪
- You can just leave me here for a second, Deco.
♪ ♪
- Great run, dude. - Really good, Brad.
[applause]
- I wasn't expecting Brad to fall off,
like, where he did.
It was such a shock moment.
He's such a fundamental part of our group,
and also he's just such a fantastic and strong climber.
This is a very painful moment that's happening.
- I feel like Brad's been, like, a favorite...
- Yeah, for sure. - To win this entire thing.
So as you can see, all it takes is one foot to slip.
- I wasn't ready for it. - Yeah.
No, I was not ready for that.
- Like, absolutely shocked. - No one saw that.
- I could not fathom Brad going home.
Brad and I are really good friends.
It's really hard.
- Hey, why are you guys so sad?
Come on.
- That was a good effort, Brad.
- Amazing.
- I am so sorry.
- You know, I came into this
and made nine really great friends
who I'm really close with, who are all mentors to me.
I climbed with Chris Sharma, who's one of, like,
my all-time role models, mentors.
- Hey. Good climbing, you guys.
Brad, much love, brother.
- Thank you.
I've learned so much from them.
I've grown as a person. I've grown as a climber.
- It was such a pleasure to have you here.
- I'll always be hungry for more climbing
and proving myself to myself.
And I'll always be, like, having that drive.
- It's hard to see you go.
- I'm gonna miss you, man. - Thanks, guys.
This journey has been worth every minute.
♪ ♪
- Climbing is about never giving up...
Persevering through our physical limitations
and mental obstacles,
even when it feels impossible.
That's what elevates a climber to greatness.
[intense music]
That determination will be crucial
in the next leg of this competition.
Welcome to Wadi Rum.
- Wow. We got you.
- Because ultimately, they will have to adapt
to the unexplored corners of Jordan...
- Whoa!
♪ ♪
- Come on, finish it. - [grunts]
- Ah, fuck. - I'm so stuck.
- This would be so devastating.
- [yells]
♪ ♪
- Ugh!
- If they want to rise up to the climb.