i strongly agree. if we all had inherited money and never had to work a day in our life and were able buy whatever the f--- we wanted everybody on this site would have climbed el cap. i have little respect for him and the absolute highest for those who have made it their life long goal to climb el cap and have done such through a lifetime of hard work and saving. Not for someone who spent 6 months training and then was able to hire somebody to show him how to climb and guide him up el cap. Next thing u know hes gonna be hiring somebody to carry his fat ass up everest. To me ive always felt that accomplishing something big in climbing has always been about hard work and desire to do it on your own. This accomplishment of his deserves no credit from the climbing community.

i strongly agree. if we all had inherited money and never had to work a day in our life and were able buy whatever the f--- we wanted everybody on this site would have climbed el cap. i have little respect for him and the absolute highest for those who have made it their life long goal to climb el cap and have done such through a lifetime of hard work and saving. Not for someone who spent 6 months training and then was able to hire somebody to show him how to climb and guide him up el cap. Next thing u know hes gonna be hiring somebody to carry his fat ass up everest. To me ive always felt that accomplishing something big in climbing has always been about hard work and desire to do it on your own. This accomplishment of his deserves no credit from the climbing community.

You live part-time in California and part-time in England, yet, your first climb was in Slovenia; how did that happen? Two of my climbing partners, Mike Weeks and Bean Sopwith (I did Salathe with them), were working on a TV show I randomly did on a whim, called “Extreme Celebrity Detox.” The show was about climbing and mediation in the mountains. I went for the climbing because I thought I would try it out. The first R-rated film I was allowed to see, at age six, was Cliffhanger. I always had this weird fascination with climbing. I tried it out and loved it.

Mike and I became good friends on the show and I went out to Croatia where he was filming a deep-water-soloing movie called Depth Charge. I had no idea what I was getting into. I went out there with Chris Sharma, Leo Houlding, Steve McClure, just amazing climbers, and I was 215 pounds deep-water soloing with Chris Sharma. Now, now I realize how surreal that is. Back then I didn’t know who Chris Sharma was. I like to surround myself with people who climb hard because it inspires me, and I think, ‘I want to climb like that.’

Can you describe the moment when you knew you were sold on climbing? In Slovenia, we did three climbs and after the first one I thought “this is amazing” and I wanted to do another one. I don’t know, I seemed to get on with it well. I wasn’t scared of the height and I didn’t feel unsafe at any point. I just went with it.

when i pulled up to my dorm in mybenz no one wanted to be friends with me. we all have to deal with what we got.

Your not gonna get me to understand your pain with this kind of comment. We all have to deal with what we got. I got a bike and you got a benz.

Your not gonna get me to understand your pain with this kind of comment. We all have to deal with what we got. I got a bike and you got a benz.

I think it's great. He has enough money to do anything he wants and he is driven by climbing.

After watching them climb El Cap on the Travel Channel, i have come to the conclusion that none of the people on the show should of been up there! After only climbing 1 year Jack should definitely should not have gone close to doing that. His to trainers seemed on the show, just as incompetent as jack who is an fledgeling climber. If you listened in the show it listed the people-- 2 "rope riggers", a cameraman, jack, mike, and bean. It sounds to me like they were top roped all the way up.

PS .. what was dick cheney doing on 911/ once you find out you will not believe it...

I could care less about whether he is rich or poor, the point i was trying to make was that they did not seem ready or competent enough to be climbing a big wall. That is what i got from watching the Travel Channel show about them climbing. All he did the whole way up was complain and whine. I have never climbed El Cap, but what did he expect it to be, it is never as easy as they say. Also he had only been climbing for 1 year, and unless he was climbing all the time and practicing big wall techniques a lot he probably should be thrown up there for a tv show.

Here's a fact people: Jack was born into riches, he wasn't given the choice of leading a regular life, he was born the son of one of the most well known rock stars ever. He's had money all his life and he's allowed to use it as he sees fit, and so therefore he does. Does that mean that what he does with it, even if in far more extravagant ways then we could ever dream of, doesn't mean just as much to him? He made a goal for himself, and he accomplished it, even if he did seem like a wuss about it at times, he still made his dreams come true. That's alot more then most people can say, most of us give up on what we dream of without ever trying to even really get there. Congratulations to him. Even if he does have the money to buy the best rehabilitation help, the best personal trainers, the best coaches, he still had to make that choice on his own, and he still had to see it through on his own, and he did.

To all of you that b---- about his money, if you were born into a life of riches you damn well would do the exact same thing, you would spend in excess, you would buy the newest and best, you would do the same thing that every rich person does, and the only reason that any of you have to knock him is because you know that you'll never have that life, and because of that you become malignant about it instead of understanding what all of this must have meant to him. This was the end of a journey for him, the end of a string of accomplishments that too many people out there wouldn't have the will power to finish. I have been on such a journey, I know what it means to see your life going to destruction, I know what it means to finally come to the point where you take your life back into your own hands, it's not something that everyone has the power to do, and I know, after 5 years of setting things straight, what it feels like to look back on where you've come from and to know that you've finally reached your goal. There's nothing like it, one can't describe it, and all the money or opportunities in the world don't matter because you know that wasn't what got you where you were, it was your shear will power, your determination to win. If you think that his accomplishments are any less meaningful to him then any of your personal successes your a fool. How many of you can say you've been on such a journey?