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Thanks for the view from the top. I have been to the tower but never ever in my life would I be able to see the top of it and the view from it with out this video. That is one place I can say I will never ever get to stand on that piece of ground.

I summited the Tower on June 6, 2006. We went up Hollywood and Vine. I had to Jumar through the 5.10C pitch, but the climb was great. We got to the top a bit after sunset, and rappelled down in the light of the full moon. Definitely the highlight of my life. I learned to climb at 53, specifically to climb the Tower. I'm 76 now and still climb.

Wow!  You’ve talked the talk and climbed the climb.  Respect.

As a native Wyomingite, I have walked Devil's Tower as a child, adult and Geology student.  My brave silly son climbed part way up free handed.  I did not know of this until he was down!
Thanks much for the top view!

I totally have a fear of heights . I could never do this. More power to you Shawn, you got guts! Great view from up there!

Also, my brother climbed Devil's tower.  I remember he needed a lot of special protection because of the large cracks.  He and his climbing buds carried a small Dino (from a Sinclair gas station) up to the top.  And everywhere else they climbed that year.

Longer ago than I would prefer (early 80s), our rock climbing class at UW climbed Devil's Tower after the spring semester was over. We went up Durrance, which I think is the easiest route (5.8, IIRC), including the jump traverse, which was ... memorable. It was a kick, but we were a large group and we didn't get started right at dawn, so our descent was after sunset. Rappelling in the dark with small platforms that you had to hit to start the next pitch of the rappel was definitely interesting.

If you like crack climbs and haven't been there, you might want to try climbing at Vedauwoo, just off I-80, near Laramie. Beautiful place with a huge number of excellent routes.

Stuff of nightmares! What courage you climbers have! Thanks for taking us with!!

super amazing!
I know that I could not do this climb! I am almost sweating, just watching it!
Thanks for sharing!
(I was a bit disappointed to see that you could not land a large size alien spaceship up top, with a full compliment of scientists and army personnel, though ;) )

I can barely climb my stairs, but DS has long been on my bucket list

AWWW Shucks!!! You mean you didn't find a UFO Spaceport at the top? I thought there was one up there!!!
Thanks for the trip!!! You're a Brave Man!!!

When I was climbing back in the early 70’s we pounded iron into the rock which caused problems. I have not used the new cams and too old to climb now. Thanks for the memories…….

My buddy and I climbed it twice by two different routes in June of 1972. Our ascents were among the first 1000. Now, apparently, 5000 parties sign in to climb it every year.

It’s amazing to see this.I was there in 2009...it was an official spot on my “bucket list”! I watched the tiny specks of climbers going up, really only noticeable through binoculars...I was fascinated to see the binocs revealing dozens of climbers pretty much invisible to the naked eye! The Missouri Buttes nearby are fascinating to me because they can represent what the tower looked like in the middle of the eons of erosion. For some reason, maybe due to the presence of the Belle Fourche River, Devils Tower has eroded faster than the Buttes.

I climbed with you in spirit - thank you for all your amazing field trips!

Thanks for taking us to a place that most of us will never see 👍

For me, worlds collide in the best possible way in this video.  I'm not a climber but I'm an enthusiastic fan of all kinds of climbing... including (especially?) crack.  Just came from a Wide Boyz video of 5.14 near Moab.  The geology of Devil's Tower in these past two videos has fascinating.  I also live in the America west and learning the geology is just making me love it more.  Thanks Shawn!

Next time you climb to the top, have someone on the ground take a video of you at the top from the bottom! I took some pictures of people who were near the top, they are tiny little dots. People don't have a good concept of how tall or big Devil's Tower is. Seeing a person from the ground on it give you a new sense of the scale of it.

Now that was a Close Encounter at Devil's Tower.  Beautiful place!