Yosemite

Just as the premiers for "Pretty Strong" began, filmfests shut down. Latest online showing was at the Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival. Here, a review of the film.

Memories of youth, temptation and trying to out climb the long arm of the law.

Only floods, fires and government shutdowns have ever closed the park before. Now a pandemic has.

Lowered off end of rope in Yosemite

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.

"The whole route demands that you be a good climber. You can't just rehearse the moves and put your hands and feet in the right place; you have to climb well the whole way up."

She is the third person to send the famous route, and only the second person to redpoint it by placing the gear on lead.

Belgian climber Sébastien Berthe freed the Nose at the beginning of the month. Now Zangerl and Larcher have done so, too.

The 16th annual Yosemite Facelift wrapped up a couple weeks ago--- another great event in the books!

The 16-year-old climber has sent Ron Kauk’s Yosemite masterpiece (5.13d)—just the latest in a series of impressive climbs.

Search Wikipedia for “Frank Sacherer,” and you’ll find … nothing, at least not in English. Google him and the first listing is often “Find a Grave,” which tells you that he was born in 1940, was a theoretical physicist and a Yosemite rock climber who died in a mountaineering accident. Simply put, Frank Sacherer was one of the fathers of free climbing.

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