You're climbing on little dimples and nubbins in the rock.

With this, typically crack climbers would put their hands in and their toes in and just start climbing.

This climber is on the last pitch of it.

Friction climbing doesn't have any sort of hard positive edges.

And all the hard pitches are actually below him.

Now, he's a rock climber, but you know, he's our executive director.

In the 35 years I've been a climbing guide and taught on indoor walls, and stuff like that, the most important thing I've learned was, guys will always try to do pull ups.

Matthew Childs' 9 life lessons from rock climbing

In this talk from TED University 2009, veteran rock climber Matthew Childs shares nine pointers for rock climbing. These handy tips bear on an effective life at sea level, too.

This is a friction climb, up in Tuolumne Meadows, in the Yosemite high country.

This is a climb called the Dike Route, on Pywjack Dome, up in the Yosemite high country.

This is a climb called the Naked Edge, in El Dorado Canyon, outside of Boulder.

And do you think kids, you know, skateboarders, surfers, rock climbers, would use these things?

It's pretty simple. There are nine, sort of, rules that I discovered after 35 years of rock climbing.

One of the things in climbing is, most people sort of take it straight on. And they follow the most obvious solution.

This is Aimee Mullins, who lost her lower limbs as a young child, and Hugh Herr, who's a professor at MIT who lost his limbs in a climbing accident.

Right?

You're focusing on the consequences of failing at what you're doing because any given move should require all your concentration and thought processes to execute it effectively.

The cracks are too small to get your toes into so the only way to climb is using your fingertips in the cracks, and using opposing pressure and forcing yourself up.

Iwabuchi!

Red Rock!

Oh, he's the Rock the Rock of Gibraltar.

Granite

It's lava.

Chijiiwa?

Emily hates climbing.

Creeping up to the house.

Climb every mountain

It takes a pile of loose sand and it creates sandstone out of it.

She's been chatting you up too?

Iwate

Crags of Fire

Like a rock.

Iwabuchi here.

Yes, Iwabuchi speaking.

It's amazing. The best climbers are the ones that in the most extreme situations can get their bodies into some position where they can rest, regroup, calm themselves, focus, and keep going.

If we can show some of the video, you can see it climbing up the wall.

How did you climb up?

Decorative Rock

LavaLite

Iwabuchi, vice president.

Motome Chijiiwa...

Motome Chijiiwa...

Under a high rock on a ledge near Penistone Crag.

an inlet among the rocks, many rocks that... she had never realized,