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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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This will be fun to watch!
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briham89
Big Wall climber
san jose, ca
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I wonder who her partner will be for the nose speed record. The Honnold Florine combo seems pretty hard to match
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S.Leeper
Social climber
somewhere that doesnt have anything over 90'
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can't wait! I love her eyes..
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vininja
Social climber
NJ
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When it comes to climbing The Nose free, women have the best record.
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Bruce Morris
Social climber
Belmont, California
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Already too old. Too much sun, too many wrinkles.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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I wish her luck--she's got some work ahead of her!
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RP3
Big Wall climber
El Portal/Chapel Hill
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Go get it!
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Phil_B
Social climber
Hercules, CA
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More power to her!
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Vitaliy M.
Mountain climber
San Francisco
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Ok, so when is she gonna get a supertopo account so we know she is not trolling? :)
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jogill
climber
Colorado
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"In rock climbing women are close to men, if you look solely at pure difficulty, but rarely do they compete on the same level as the guys,” says Mayan. “I want to show that we women are just as capable, on any terrain"
Good for you, Mayan. There are several athletic events in which women are every bit as good as the opposite gender. Rock climbing is one. Another is the horizontal bar - a men's apparatus - in gymnastics. Female gymnasts do most of the moves the men do on their uneven bars. I'd love to see both genders go for it on the HBar!
;>)
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Vitaliy M.
Mountain climber
San Francisco
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My trip to the Valley with my girl friend, Chantel Astorga, was brief but very successful – Within 7 days we did two laps on the Nose, one on Half Dome, and broke three records: We set a new women’s speed record on the Nose twice and completed the first all female linkup of El Cap and Half Dome. The next day Chantel was packing up to leave and was planning to just have another mellow day in the Valley with my friends… However, when Sean Leary (a former speed record holder on the Nose), asked me whether I was keen to a run up the Nose with him, I quickly agreed - Sean is one of the Valley climbers I have always looked up to, I was honored that he wanted to climb with me and was definitely not going to turn down an opportunity like this! I could not resist the temptation to squeeze in another lap just before flying out to Bend. We got an early start, as I had to catch a flight that afternoon. Reaching the top after climbing for 4.29min – a new (male/female team) record on the Nose.During this week my perception of what is possible changed drastically – I now, not only understand how to climb the Nose in 2.30 hours, but actually can see it might be possible to climb it in less! I never thought I would want to peruse speed climbing, but it is actually extremely fun to move so fast and continuously over such this huge wall, and also strangely addictive… An intriguing mixture of strategy, fitness, climbing power and metal strength.
http://www.mayanclimbs.com/
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Trolling? Seriously, dude...
I've got lots of popcorn just in case.
She ought to go for it this week, before the world ends, especially with her first name.
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shipoopoi
Big Wall climber
oakland
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i'd say she has a chance if she goes up with stanley again. But hans will just break it again, so what's the use? ss
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mcreel
climber
Barcelona
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Maybe she should pair up with a male, I mean a man, er, I mean Hans.
Way to go up there, guys, taking an interesting and ambitious climbing project and turning it into a first year of high school snicker-fest.
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Gal
Trad climber
a semi lucid consciousness
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It's a great and ambitious goal. it'll be interesting to see if she can do it, or how close... go for it, girl! I like that ambition. It's a bold statement, definitely hope she gets under 3hrs time. That in itself w/b impressive...
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John Mac
Trad climber
Littleton, CO
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Great to see a kiwi rising to the challenge.
I can easily see her freeing the Nose and doing the Nose and HD link up, but for pure speed I think it will be tough to beat the Hans/Alex combo...
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SCseagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Oh boy....pretty awesome venture there.....roootin' for her, fer sure.
Susan
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