The Nose Freed Thrice This Fall: Seb Berthe, Barbara Zangerl and Jacopo Larcher
Belgian climber Sébastien Berthe freed the Nose at the beginning of the month. Now Zangerl and Larcher have done so, too.
Belgian climber Sébastien Berthe freed the Nose at the beginning of the month. Now Zangerl and Larcher have done so, too.
Meet Miranda Oakley. Take brief look into her life as a full-time climbing guide, big wall climber and local to Yosemite Valley.
Two greats, Tom Frost and Jeff Lowe, pass in the same day
Yep, you guessed it. They did it. Sub two hours.
The climbers set the new record of 2 hours 1 minute 50 seconds on Monday, June 4.
The man with more ascents of El Capitan than anyone else in history writes about watching Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell's new speed record, whether he thinks they'll break the two-hour mark, and the risks involved in speed climbing the Big Stone.
Some photos—mostly of hanging around, a couple of climbing—of Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell's journey to setting the speed record on the Nose.
Over Labor Day weekend, Freddie Wilkinson and Rufus Lusk set a new record. They single-pushed the Nose (5.9 C1) on El Cap—from Brooklyn, New York. “It wasn’t about the record though,” says Wilkinson, “It’s been an 11-year dream.”