VIDEO Part 2: BD athletes Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson attempting to free El Cap's hardest climb
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67. VIDEO Part 2: BD athletes Tommy Caldwell and Kevin…
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When is a rock climb too hard, the holds too small, the cracks too thin? Black Diamond athletes Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson pushed those physical and mental boundaries to the limit this past fall when they spent nearly two months attempting to free a line on El Capitan’s southeast face, a 900-meter route (linking up sections of the Dawn Wall and Mescalito) that is likely the hardest big wall free climb in the world, mind-bogglingly stacked with numerous 5.14 pitches.
To read Tommy's essay about the effort and see exclusive images from the climb, go to: blackdiamondequipment.com/en-us/journal/climb/athletes/path-of-resistance--tommy-caldwell-and-kevin-jorgeson-attempt-the-first-ascent-of-el-caps-hardest-free-climb
To read Tommy's essay about the effort and see exclusive images from the climb, go to: blackdiamondequipment.com/en-us/journal/climb/athletes/path-of-resistance--tommy-caldwell-and-kevin-jorgeson-attempt-the-first-ascent-of-el-caps-hardest-free-climb
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I've been looking for the song with that band
its not embarrassing
and if you have to ask if its legal, you don't understand big wall climbing, go back to the gym
I have read hundreds of forum threads about the ethics in climbing and often the slightest "mistake" makes the majority think that you can't claim the climb. So my thought is why show this in a movie where it's so obvious? You take a step in to the aid zone there.
They're probably working every inch of these pitches dozens or even hundreds of times--you don't do every move in perfect style until you've got the whole thing wired & you're ready to try for the FA.
I don't know any climber who wouldn't tromp on a hanger to get up to the part they needed to work on. Nobody flashes 5.14+...yet :)