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rope free ascent of El Capitan ...
Posted on 6/3/17 at 7:15 pm
Posted on 6/3/17 at 7:15 pm
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YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, CALIFORNIA—Renowned rock climber Alex Honnold on Saturday became the first person to scale the iconic nearly 3,000-foot granite wall known as El Capitan without using ropes or other safety gear, completing what may be the greatest feat of pure rock climbing in the history of the sport.
He ascended the peak in 3 hours, 56 minutes, taking the final moderate pitch at a near run. At 9:28 a.m. PDT, under a blue sky and few wisps of cloud, he pulled his body over the rocky lip of summit and stood on a sandy ledge the size of a child’s bedroom.
Honnold began his historic rope-less climb—a style known as “free soloing”—in the pink light of dawn at 5:32 a.m. He had spent the night in the customized van that serves as his mobile base camp, risen in the dark, dressed in his favorite red t-shirt and cutoff nylon pants, and eaten his standard breakfast of oats, flax, chia seeds, and blueberries, before driving to El Capitan Meadow.
sometimes use his video of this ascent to discuss gravity in science class, but ec is a bit higher ... unreal ...
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, CALIFORNIA—Renowned rock climber Alex Honnold on Saturday became the first person to scale the iconic nearly 3,000-foot granite wall known as El Capitan without using ropes or other safety gear, completing what may be the greatest feat of pure rock climbing in the history of the sport.
He ascended the peak in 3 hours, 56 minutes, taking the final moderate pitch at a near run. At 9:28 a.m. PDT, under a blue sky and few wisps of cloud, he pulled his body over the rocky lip of summit and stood on a sandy ledge the size of a child’s bedroom.
Honnold began his historic rope-less climb—a style known as “free soloing”—in the pink light of dawn at 5:32 a.m. He had spent the night in the customized van that serves as his mobile base camp, risen in the dark, dressed in his favorite red t-shirt and cutoff nylon pants, and eaten his standard breakfast of oats, flax, chia seeds, and blueberries, before driving to El Capitan Meadow.
sometimes use his video of this ascent to discuss gravity in science class, but ec is a bit higher ... unreal ...
This post was edited on 6/3/17 at 7:16 pm
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Posted on 6/3/17 at 7:21 pm to tiderider
Whole bunch of nope
Posted on 6/3/17 at 7:24 pm to tiderider
That is damn impressive. Major props to that guy.
Posted on 6/3/17 at 7:28 pm to tiderider
That is amazing.
Posted on 6/3/17 at 7:28 pm to tiderider
I don't think he's going to die of old age.
Posted on 6/3/17 at 8:02 pm to tiderider
Guy needs to go to Vegas and get laid real bad
Posted on 6/3/17 at 8:17 pm to Bossier2323
fairly certain he gets laid whenever he wants ...
Posted on 6/3/17 at 8:23 pm to tiderider
I'm surprised Honnold's still alive. But damn he's amazing.
This post was edited on 6/3/17 at 8:24 pm
Posted on 6/3/17 at 8:56 pm to tiderider
Has to be absolutely scary as frick going down 
Posted on 6/3/17 at 10:18 pm to St Augustine
James T Kirk was unable to accomplish this because Spock distracted him.
Posted on 6/3/17 at 10:22 pm to St Augustine
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Has to be absolutely scary as frick going down
It's an ascent. I'm sure he just hiked or rappelled down.
Posted on 6/3/17 at 10:24 pm to tiderider
There's a fantastic documentary (not 30 for 30, but similar on the discovery channel) on Yosemite climbers. Discusses their beginning and how far they've come / what they can do now.
Those climbers are true athletes in every sense of the word. What some of them can do is remarkable
Those climbers are true athletes in every sense of the word. What some of them can do is remarkable
Posted on 6/3/17 at 10:25 pm to Aggie Fishfinder
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It's an ascent. I'm sure he just hiked or rappelled down.
A lot of them base jump down. As if the climb up wasn't enough of an adrenaline rush
Posted on 6/3/17 at 10:27 pm to tiderider
When I went to Yosemite I stayed in the rent house of Hans Florine, his former climbing partner and past holder of the speed record on El Cap!!
Posted on 6/3/17 at 11:16 pm to tiderider
Posted on 6/4/17 at 12:18 pm to okietiger
Good God. I'm not sure I could crawl on the ground that quickly.
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