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Yosemite Big Wall First Ascent Topos
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Tuesday May 15, 2012 11:23am
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Chris McNamara
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About the Author
Climbing Magazine once computed that three percent of Chris McNamara’s life on Earth had been spent on the face of El Capitan – an accomplishment that left friends and family pondering Chris’s sanity. He has climbed El Capitan more than 70 times and holds nine big wall speed climbing records. In 1998 Chris did the first Girdle Traverse of El Capitan, an epic 75-pitch route that begs the question, “Why?”
Outside Magazine called Chris one of “the world’s finest aid climbers.” He is the winner of the 1999 Bates Award from the American Alpine Club and founder of the American Safe Climbing Association, a nonprofit group that has replaced over 5000 dangerous anchor bolts. He is a graduate of UC Berkeley and serves on the board of the ASCA and the Rowell Legacy Committee. He has a rarely updated adventure journal, maintains BASEjumpingmovies.com, and also runs a Lake Tahoe home rental business. |
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icaro
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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Super cool Chris!!! Thanks for posting these. Though it appears that most of the El Cap topos are broken links (except for Sea of Dreams, Outer Negative and Right Ventricle) :(
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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wow, thx Bryan and Erik for sharing all those, and cmac for posting up.
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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Thanks to Bryan, Eric and Chris for sharing these.
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TrundleBum
Trad climber
Las Vegas
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Way cool Chris...
But yah, run a link checker over the page.
(xenus-link-sleuth is quite handy and freebee)
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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May 15, 2012 - 12:12pm PT
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Thanks, Chris. I'm adding to my tick list faster than my life is ebbing, but now I've added a few more.
John
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