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I thought el cap took a week to ascend? If he did that twice in one day free that is just absurdly amazing.

• raganwald 17y ago
  It does take most people a week to ascend with aid. That being said, the less gear you carry, the faster you climb. So the moment you try to ascend something in a day, you get to leave your poop tube, portaledge, sleeping bags, food, satellite hookup to HN, and other baggage behind. This makes you considerably faster. All that being said, climbing the nose free is astounding. Toomy and his wife at the time Beth Rodden were the third and fourth people to climb it free. Lynn Hill was the first to do it in 1993, and the first to do it in a day in 1994. In the next sixteen years only one other person pulled it off. Her line "It goes, boys" is one of the all-time greatest statements about the ability of a woman to equal or best a man in athletic competition. Here's some footage, including her entrance into the near-mythical "changing corners" at around 0:50 or so: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KlA77j6xAc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KlA77j6xAc Anyhoo, Tommy doing it twice in one day is ridiculous, once on the nose and once on another route. Sick. And he did it with just nine fingertips! Maybe the guy suing should actually pay Ryobi, it might be that fingers hold you back...