More Details on New El Cap Speed Record

On Wednesday, July 2, 2008, Hans Florine and Yuji Hirayama climbed the Nose (VI 5.9 A2, 2,900') on El Capitan, Yosemite. The team made multiple attempts in days prior, and on the previous Sunday had missed the Hubers' record of 2:45:45 by only two minutes (read the June 30, 2008 NewsWire article). However, their repeat attempt proved successful; they beat the Germans' time by two minutes to set a new record of 2:43:33. Florine and Hirayama had climbed the Nose four times over the course of the week, starting with a time of 4:48 on Monday, and paring it down to their record-breaking time by Wednesday...

Taken from: Alpinist Magazine.