"only a handful of routes to the summit"

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Toker Villain

Big Wall climber

Toquerville, Utah

Topic Author's Original Post - Jul 31, 2014 - 09:33am PT

OK, so I am watching a 2009 program on History International called How The Earth Was Made, Yosemite.

Seems to be well researched program, and when they get to the obligatory rock climbing cameo they even made a reference to the North America Wall.
But WTF!!!! The narrator says that El Capitan was once thought impossible to climb, but now it is ascended but "only by a handful of routes".

I shlt you not.

I mean, I know how the flatlanders always get it wrong, but really!
(then it goes on to depict a geologist wailing on some rock near the road with a pick hammer in a way that would earn any tourist a vandalism citation.)

Toker Villain

Big Wall climber

Toquerville, Utah

Topic Author's Reply - Jul 31, 2014 - 09:42am PT

Newspaper yes, but this is like Nat Geo.

Rollover

climber

Gross Vegas

Jul 31, 2014 - 10:30am PT

Clint???

I would guess closer to 100..

The Larry

climber

Moab, UT

Jul 31, 2014 - 10:37am PT

Did they use words like rock spikes and climbing wedges?

Mungeclimber

Trad climber

Nothing creative to say

Jul 31, 2014 - 10:52am PT

"Grips"

hate that term, they are called "holds"

donini

Trad climber

Ouray, Colorado

Jul 31, 2014 - 11:24am PT

There is no summit....just a top.

survival

Big Wall climber

Terrapin Station

Jul 31, 2014 - 01:23pm PT

Where's Tami when we need her?

this just in

climber

north fork

Jul 31, 2014 - 01:29pm PT

I was watching the game show "The Chase" and it has some Brit with an IQ of 155 on it called the Beast. He tried to explain that crampons are some pointy metal device that rock climbers use to grip into rock. And here I was thinking we used sticky rubber this whole time.