Incredible. They crushed the previous record.

The nose is 2,900 vertical feet. The first ascent was measured in days.

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Suffer Well.

I've watched a few documentaries on Honnold. M palms were sweating, just watching him free climb.

https://www.climbing.com/...-5-12d-climbers-cut/

The crazy thing is only climbers will realize how impressive and asinine this is. Less than 4 minutes per 100 feet on relatively difficult terrain. I’m sure at some point I’ve spent the better part of 2 hours on a single 150ft pitch before.

meh

Days? It was around 18 months.

540 days, give or take.

45 days of climbing spread over 18 months as I understand.

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Suffer Well.

I get it. People on bicycles take longer to climb that in 2 hours. Doing it on a rock wall by hand.........shit. Hats off.

Was looking at the history of record on The Nose. This stood out to me:

10/4/2007 – Alexander and Thomas Huber – 2:48:30
10/4/2007 – Hans Florine, Yuji Hirayama – 2:48:55
9/29/2002 – Hans Florine, Yuji Hirayama – 2:48:55

Five years apart goes down to the second with the same partners. The Huber brothers start after Hans and Yuji on the SAME day and go 25s faster. Crazy!!

Ugghhh. My stomach was turning while watching that. One misplaced finger and it could be game over.

He's not wearing a helmet....

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I miss YaHey

Warren Harding, 45 days over period of months.

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It doesn't really matter what Phil is saying, the music of his voice is the appropriate soundtrack for a bicycle race. HTupolev

He's not wearing a helmet....



That made me laugh.

I've watched a lot of Honnold climbing and when they have comments section, invariably people sitting at their desks start complaining about how he is selfish and doesn't care about his parents because he's out risking his life, or he is just an attention seeker or how their precious tax money will be spent if he fell and they had to recover the body.

It's always the same people who can't just appreciate what he does and leave it at that. The same people are the ones jumping up and down screaming if they see someone without a bike helmet.

We aren't computers. At one point everyone makes a mistake.

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We aren't computers. At one point everyone makes a mistake.


Yes and he knows the risk better than anyone. It's his choice to live that way. He would probably question why others choose to work everyday in an office until they retire and then die without doing things as thrilling as climbing a mountain without support.


Everyone makes their choices.

I watched Valley Uprising on Netflix recently. Different world.

I watched that recently too and it represents everything I know about climbing in Yosemite. Anybody know if they've been able to resolve the issue of time limits for camping in the park? Hard to believe these records are being advanced when climbers are limited to a handful of days in the park to train.

they don't sleep in the park. AH uses a custom van to sleep in outside the park each night. drives in/out every day he's there climbing.

Back in the day, when I climbed in the valley, we'd just bandit it for a couple weeks. Meaning, park your car, and sneak into the rocks and trees to sleep at night, get up and out first thing in morning. There's an art to knowing how to position yourself so the rangers patrolling on horseback can't see you.

But yeah, AH sleeps in a van down by the river, just outside park boundaries.

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https://www.outsideonline.com/...ed-nose-speed-record


Good article from Outside on the attempts.

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Suffer Well.

I have been stuck in airports getting back from Nova Scotia most of the day and watched this with great joy- I used to climb all the time - rock and snow and ice, but these are on a completely different level - huge kudos to all the generation of climbers and not free fall climbers....:-)

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Graham Wilson
USAT Level III Elite Coach
http://www.thewilsongroup.biz

Honnold's recent urban adventure.

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It doesn't really matter what Phil is saying, the music of his voice is the appropriate soundtrack for a bicycle race. HTupolev