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clinker
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
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“Ansel” Evans… at the center of the media universe! OMG!
You the man.
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RP3
Big Wall climber
Twain Harte
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Thanks so much for these updates, Tom. It is nice to know where to get the real news on the project. You are the alternative media!
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Roxy
Trad climber
CA Central Coast
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I for one thought those were some pretty rad night photos!!
& you are a solid media ambassador for the climbing community!
cubicle puke out,
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John Duffield
Mountain climber
New York
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Around 10:30 she emailed me that Kevin had made three tries and had fallen each time, just short of the belay. Not good. He took another run at it but the result was the same. So they quit for the night. I think the 11 days hanging off ElCap must be slowly causing the men to lose some fitness, and their fingers have not had enough time to recover from the beating of climbing to that height. It is hard for fingers to heal with only one or two days of rest. They have made excellent progress to their present high point and just might need a 3 day break, left alone by the photographers, to get their bodies really rested. Just my 2 cents worth of useless advise most likely!!
WOW!!!
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Great work, Tommy - thanks for taking the time to type at me today. Hope you're finally making some big $$ for selling your photos to the world!!
So if Kevin is unable to climb this pitch, that would be the end of the Team Free Ascent? But it's still a Free Ascent if ONE guy or the OTHER guy free climbs all the pitches, right? That's what Skinner and Piana did on the FFA of Salathe Wall, no?
As long as ONE of them gets every pitch, it should count[?]
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McHale's Navy
Trad climber
From Panorama City, CA
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I don't see why they both have to be able to do every pitch. Isn't that jeopardizing the project? I'm not calling Jorgeson a belayer but did Honnold's belayer climb any pitches when Honnold did the Muir Wall in twelve hours recently? Didn't that climb count? I think they should get the show on the road. They can always come back to improve the style. Just saying - there is too much at stake.
Edit: I wrote my post while Pete was writing his. His was not there when I started writing. Yeah, let's get this climb done! There is no shame in not being able to do a pitch on the hardest climb in the world...... Too many cameras and media on this for good decisions to be made. I've seen THAT happen before.
Edit: On the other hand, maybe they are doing it exactly as they want to. May the force be with them!
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John Mac
Trad climber
Littleton, CO
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I hope they shoot for the top soon before weather or something else shuts them down.
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Texplorer
Trad climber
Sacramento
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McHale. This is an old debate. The "american" ethic typically has been to free a route a team must have just one person free each section however the europeans seem to think both partners must free all sections. Go look up the old Piania/Skinner vs Huber stuff on the Salathe.
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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Joshua Tree
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"They can just come back"
Hard to state just how unlikely that would be if one sends and one doesn't.
To me, the right thing, after years of partnering on it, would be to leave that decision in KJ's hands and let him try as long as he wants until he either suceeds or concedes defeat, then move on.
I think he sends. Hope so, anyway.
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Ottawa Doug
Social climber
Ottawa, Canada
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Love the night time shots. Hope the guys keep moving upwards. My guess is that they can only spend a certain amount of time up there before progress is thwarted by diminishing returns on the physical side.
Cheers,
Doug
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elcap-pics
Big Wall climber
Crestline CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 7, 2015 - 01:20pm PT
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Elcapinyoazz got it right.
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ryankelly
Trad climber
Bhumi
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as the Taco Turns...
glad Tom is there to deal with the Lame-Stream Media and he has some fly threads from Adidas for the job
Power on Tommy and Kevin!
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Can you imagine, four tries and a slip near the belay each time.
What a feeling that will be when Kev sends!
Now, about that .13+/.14- downclimb ... Yeow!!!
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elcap-pics
Big Wall climber
Crestline CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 8, 2015 - 09:49am PT
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Honnold!!!!! Funny spoof!!
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