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| The "Nose" on El Capitan's SW Face (Yosemity Valley, CA) (Wikipedia) |
The two climbers climbed the nearly vertical, 2,900 foot precipice in 2 hours, 23 minutes and 46 seconds, nearly 13 minutes faster than the previous record set two years ago.
Florine, 48, of Lafayette, has been competing with other climbers for the fastest time on this most prominent climbing route on El Capitan for more than two decades. Honnold, 26, of Sacramento, is the latest sensation in the climbing world for his frightening climbs without ropes – called free soloing – on vertical cliffs that nobody else would consider climbing without protection, including routes on Half Dome and El Capitan. (Read more...).
"El Cap's" Nose one of the earliest technical rock climbing routes, once upon a time thought to be not possible to climb. El Capitan is now widely accepted as the standard for big wall climbing. It is acknowledged in the historic climbing text " The Fifty Classic Climbs of North America". It is considered a classic throughout the globe.
Here's a 7 minute video that shows a portion of the ascent:
What an amazing achievement! How long will it take until this El Capitan Climbing Record will be broken?
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