Climber Sets New Record on Classic Red Rock Route, Video Goes Viral
Talented climber, Alex Waterhouse, recently set a new speed record at Red Rock and caught it all on camera. The shocking ...
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America’s Next Great Big-Wall Climber Is an Engineering Student at Stanford
“But he’s also an outlier among people his age in that he’s chosen to apply that strength and skill to big-wall climbing, which is so awesome to see.” On El Capitan, Herson and Caldwell ...
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‘Giving fate the middle finger’: How blind climber Jesse Dufton scaled a 500-foot monolith
Calves burning, fingers pulsing, heart in his chest, up Dufton went, scrambling onto tiny handholds and jamming his legs in cracks to move up the sheer wall ... high he was free climbing on ...
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Connor Herson Took a Break from Stanford to Climb One of Yosemite’s Hardest Routes
“But he’s also an outlier among people his age in that he’s chosen to apply that strength and skill to big-wall climbing, which is so awesome to see.” On El Capitan, Herson and Caldwell ...
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El Gigante big wall, Mexico
Last week Stefan Glowacz, Kurt Albert, Holger Heuber, Gunda Frühwald and the photographer Klaus Fengler set off to Mexico to climb the 1000m big wall El Gigante This time ... and the German team hopes ...
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How Austrian climber Babsi Zangerl completed a ‘hard to believe’ historic ascent of El Capitan
It can take years of experience to master a route to the top of the 3,000-foot wall ... Oscar-winning documentary “Free Solo.” Zangerl has lots of experience climbing on El Cap and around ...