On November 11, 2019, Belgian climber Sébastien Berthe became only the seventh person to free climb the Nose (VI 5.14a), the world's most famous route, on El Capitan, Yosemite. He also became the first person ever to free climb the route ground up.
Watch these two climbers tackle the most famous climb in the world!
Not gonna lie, we fell for a couple of these, even if only for a split second.
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A select (not exhaustive!) timeline of many of the major moments in the history of free climbing on the Big Stone.
Hans Florine writes about what the recovery from his leg-breaking, ankle-shattering fall six months ago has been like: the lessons, the difficulties and the road back to the Nose.
That's free climbing every pitch, rapping every pitch and jugging every pitch. Incredible stuff!
Located in the Rätikon, Switzerland, Headless Children is just Caprez's most recent impressive send in the notoriously difficult area.
The former Nose speed-record holder, who has climbed El Cap a record 178 times, fell high-up on the route last Thursday, shattering bones in both his legs.
150-Footer on the Nose.
Rock and Ice's Editor in Chief Duane Raleigh recounts his first major epic, in 1981, when he and two friends decided to take a run at the Nose, with minimal gear, makeshift headlamps and no real big-wall experience to speak of.