Olli and I showed and commentated this slide/video show at Dubrovnic Lounge after the Helsinki Reel Rock Tour in Finland on the 9th of Nov -09.
The footage consists of snap shots and home video from our Autumn -09 trip to Yosemite. In the beginning and end there's general photos from the routes and views in Yosemite valley. In the middle there's climbing material from our day ascent of the Nose route (16h 48min \o/).
In this video we saved you from our commentary..
Some of the pictures by Tom Evans.
Olli and I showed and commentated this slide/video show at Dubrovnic Lounge after the Helsinki Reel Rock Tour in Finland on the 9th of Nov -09.
The footage consists of snap shots and home video from our Autumn -09 trip to Yosemite. In the beginning and end there's general photos from the routes and views in Yosemite valley. In the middle there's climbing material from our day ascent of the Nose route (16h 48min \o/).
In this video we saved you from our commentary..
Some of the pictures by Tom Evans.
We went for speed on this one. Leader french freeing as much as possible with as little time as possible on the aiders. We had the second jumarring and managing ropes even when it would have been easier to free climb - we needed the training.
The climb is 15 pitches with the main difficulties on the airy part that weaves through the overhanging face midheight. The start and end are pretty straight forward.
The lack of wide stuff speeded things up, the climb took us seven hours which was two hours less than we spent on neighbouring Steck Salathé.
Most of the approach and descent were familiar from climbing the Steck, so they went swiftly although the final part of the approach had a tricky section where we wasted a little time and ended roping up.
Our first one day grade V wall. Got up early 03.30 not letting the Yosemite Facelift celebrations ground us. We were climbing before sunrise and made it to the Dinner ledge at first light. People were getting up and having breakfast, every one seemed to be in a great mood which soon stuck. We took the C2 variation to pass the party on the Kor roof. We topped in around 8 hours and took the trail down before dark.
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