El Niño – Free climbing El Cap with Jacob Cook and Robbie Phillips
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Watch the “world’s biggest goofballs” Jacob Cook and Robbie Phillips sketching their way up El Niño (5.13c A0*) on the Southeast Face of
El Cap in Yosemite, California.
On their second attempt in May 2016, they both freed all 30 pitches, “and more importantly, had a great time!”
Read more Robbie Phillips and Jacob Cook Free El Cap’s 30-Pitch El Niño
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