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Thursday, May 21, 2009

Oh-So-Close to El Cap Onsight

Swiss climber Ueli Steck free-climbed Golden Gate (5.13b, 41 pitches) and fell on only a single pitch, onsighting the rest of the climb. And the one pitch that spoiled his onsight? It was the 5.11c crack off the top of El Cap Spire, just before Golden Gate heads right from the Salathé Wall. Steck slipped on wet rock on this relatively easy pitch, but onsighted the route’s five 5.12 and three 5.13 pitches...

Taken from: Climbing Magazine.

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