All the pitches of the Dawn Wall Project have now gone free!

...this particular ascent has the air of a quest, a triumph, once again, of an indomitable spirit of optimism and a profound love of the game.

Although there are naysayers, I don't think the uncertainties and challenges were any less real and daunting in 2015 than they were in 1958. The nature of those uncertainties and challenges has certainly evolved, but the project was as daunting, in its own way, as anything ever undertaken by climbers. I honestly can't imagine how anyone who has given over some part of their life to climbing can't, at this moment, be rejoicing to see a quest of this magnitude come to such a wonderful conclusion.

Cheers to Caldwell and Jorgenson!

[As an aside, for everyone so excited about how much press this is getting "climbing," as a sport/way of life, consider what you are saying. There are already way too many climbers. The environment is getting trashed, etc. What we really need in the climbing press is a good, solid, peer-reviewed study that links climbing (perhaps wearing a harness?) to male impotency, early-onset Alzheimer's, and aggressive cancer. That'll thin the herd!]