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divad
Trad climber
wmass
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This would compare to breaking 50 in golf...
in a thunderstorm...
using steel clubs...
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Nkane
Trad climber
San Francisco, USA
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I only have one thing to add. And that is that conditions in the Valley were not totally perfect yesterday morning. It was not a crisp November day; while temps weren't super hot, there was some humidity in the air. I was chalking like crazy across the way on Middle Cathedral.
Still can't get my mind around this.
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JOEY.F
Gym climber
It's not rocket surgery
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Can't help but notice no congratulatory tweet or call or anything from the White House as KJ & TC got for the Dawn Wall...
Hi Murcy thanks for that!
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Sands Motel , Las Vegas
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Joey F... Trump doesn't know Yosemite exists let alone El Cap...
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TripleS_in_EBs
climber
Poulsbo, WA
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Wouldn't we all really like to hear some perspective from the ones who lived through everything from the Half Dome first ascent until now, e.g. Frost, Roper, Robinson ("speechless"), Steck, Chouinard, Herbert, etc.? Maybe we'll get that later as more is published.
A partial list of what they've seen:
First ascent Half Dome
First ascent Nose
First ascent Salathe
First clean ascent Half Dome
First Half Dome in a day
First Nose in a day
First free ascent Rostrum
First free ascent East Face Washington Column
First 5.11 free solo
First Nabisco Wall fee solo
First Nose and Half Dome in a day
First Nose and Salathe in a day
First Rostrum free solo
First Astroman free solo
First free ascent Salathe
First free ascent Nose
First Watkins, Nose, Half Dome in day (team and solo)
First free ascent Dawn Wall
Sub 2 1/2 hour Nose ascent
Free solo Phoenix
Free solo El Cap, Freerider
All of the above were surely at some point deemed impossible in their lifetimes, and now they've seen all of those impossibles become reality. Salute.
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fear
Ice climber
hartford, ct
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Looks steep.
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WBraun
climber
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Just think ...
His mom must be the most relieved and simultaneously the happiest .....
(I believe it also takes the support of a good mom to make it happen.)
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ruppell
climber
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I was thinking the same thing Wbraun
Imagine that conversation:
Hi Mom
Hi Alex, how are you?
I'm great.
You sound really happy. What did you do today?
Soloed El Cap.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Seems like it's been a question of when not if.
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JOEY.F
Gym climber
It's not rocket surgery
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Photo credit Jimmy Chin.
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, Moab, A sailboat, or some time zone
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His mom
I've wondered if the apple doesn't roll far from the tree. She must be as resilient as they come.
As a Mom I frequently wondered, "how does she do it?"
Susan
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Wen
Trad climber
Bend, OR
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Imagine being those dudes on the ledge he cruised past. They won the climbing lottery with their timing!
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ionlyski
Trad climber
Kalispell, Montana
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Kingtut-I don't want to take anything away from Alex's climbing achievement...
AS IF DUDE! As if you could. What makes you think you have the means to "take anything away from Alex's climbing achievement?
You are completely powerless and Alex is your Father. Go wash his socks or something.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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an amazing achievement and a testament to what can be accomplished with dedication and hard work... sounds cliche, but that's what it is...
congratulations to Alex, he certainly earned it.
and it is an amazing continuation of other bold solos and the climbers who had that vision as to that future of climbing, total commitment. Here we are, looking at it, stunned perhaps, but not surprised.
I missed the whole thing, I was climbing in other parts of the Valley, and only learned about it this afternoon when I checked in with Tom out in El Cap Meadow.
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Mei
Trad climber
mxi2000.net
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Many quoteable lines from the interview, but what I'd remember for a long time is "it's the other day."
Mark: A normal person would probably take the afternoon off after they free-soloed El Cap.
Alex: But I’ve been trying to hang board every other day, and it’s the other day.
Bonus:
Mark: Does your mom know you free soloed El Cap?
Alex: I haven’t talked to her yet... She might think I’d already done it. She’s really bad a differentiating between free climbing and free soloing.
OP, aldude, can you please include the link to the interview in your first post so it's easy for people to access? Nice to edit to make it a compilation post with all relevant links (including the BREAKING NEWS story by NG) for the future readers. Thanks.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/features/athletes/alex-honnold/interview-rope-free-solo-climb-yosemite-el-capitan
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JOEY.F
Gym climber
It's not rocket surgery
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Yup hfcs no tape!
Still reeling...
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Mei
Trad climber
mxi2000.net
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I posted the link to the NatGeo article as the 2nd post in the thread. It should be pretty obvious.
I saw that, and that's why I didn't ask to link to that article. I'm talking about the interview piece. It's a different link. I liked the interview piece even more.
If I were the OP, I'd just keeping editing the first post to include all references to the historic event.
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brotherbbock
climber
Alta Loma, CA
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That El Cap report was Badass 🤘🏼
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