Vietnam’s HARDEST Deep Water Solos | ft. Kyra Condie & Tim Emmett

This short film follows Kyra Condie and Tim Emmett on deep-water solo (psicobloc) routes in Ha Long Bay, Vietnam. The central sequence documents Condie working a route billed in the film as the “Lightning Crack,” given a 5.13 grade, and shows Emmett coaching her through the technical moves and the specific fears of climbing high above water. The climbing takes place on Ha Long Bay’s limestone towers — the film notes the area’s thousands of karst formations — and uses a mix of close-up climbing footage and wider drone shots to show the exposure and landing zone. The film is useful as a record of a teacher–student exchange between a climber known for competition and bouldering (Kyra Condie) and a psicobloc pioneer (Tim Emmett, who helped develop deep-water soloing in Vietnam in the early 2000s). Beyond the line itself, the piece documents how movement and fall-management translate from gym and boulder settings to sustained limestone over water, and it places that technical conversation into the specific context of Ha Long Bay’s DWS scene.