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supafly
Trad climber
vancouver, bc
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jan 7, 2015 - 12:55pm PT
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news to me.
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
extraordinaire
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no - but I decided which juicer I'm gonna buy
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darkmagus
Mountain climber
San Diego, CA
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YEAH I GUESS THEYRE CLIMBING IT FREE HAND
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Port
Trad climber
Norwalk, CT
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Freehand means hiking the wall without ropes and wall hooks.
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supafly
Trad climber
vancouver, bc
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 7, 2015 - 01:25pm PT
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I HEARD IT'S THE HARDEST CLIMB TO BE SCALED WITHOUT GRAPPLING HOOKS
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chill
climber
between the flat part and the blue wobbly thing
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They are extreme hikers conquring a mountain without ropes, except for the ones they are obviously tied to in all the pictures.
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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How do they get the rope up there?
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moacman
Trad climber
Montuckyian Via Canada Eh!
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Dhey use pietons I tink....
Stevo
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anita514
Gym climber
Great White North
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Haven't heard about it.
Is that on Lembert Dome?
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coolrockclimberguy69
climber
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I heard they're not using any flexclamps or crampons to freehand up the sheer rock face
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ionlyski
Trad climber
Kalispell, Montana
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Oh the skin off the fingers must be incredible. It probably takes a lots of bottles of Second Skin and tape.
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this just in
climber
Justin Ross from North Fork
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Is he the guy on that National Geographic cover? I saw a TV special on him I think.
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MisterE
Gym climber
Bishop, CA
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FACT: There are at The Dawn Wall, which is a relentlessly smooth face with few cracks to penetrate or nubs to clench.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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They get extremely exhausted from clenching their behinds, and the ice picks are hardly any use at all I heard.
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SicMic
climber
across the street from Marshall
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The Down Wall? That's a lot of loft.
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Bushman
Social climber
The island of Tristan da Cunha
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You guys are way stoopid, Elvis already did that wall in 1970!
He climbed it with all free with them peanut butter and nanner sandwiches.
Ask Priscilla.
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deuce4
climber
Hobart, Australia
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I heard they were climbing only using their hands and feet. No chimneys or offwidths.
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Gobi
Trad climber
Orange CA
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They must be training for Mount Everest.
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Oplopanax
Mountain climber
The Deep Woods
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fingernail over fingernailing up this sheer face of the world's largest rock
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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who's tommy caldwell????
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