Big Up’s Progression Update: Tommy Caldwell On El Cap

Posted May 13, 2009 at 6:20 am · Comments { 6 } ·

Big Up Productions has another update on what they are working on for their upcoming film Progression.  Their latest blog entry details a futuristic free route Tommy Caldwell is working on El Capitan’s east face that features “At least 10 pitches of 5.14, 7 foot sideways dynos, and double-digit boulder problems stacked on top of each other 2,000 feet off the deck.”

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6 Responses to Big Up’s Progression Update: Tommy Caldwell On El Cap

  1. steve schultz May 13, 2009 at 10:28 am #

    That is beyond cool. I can’t wait to see the footage.

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  2. Narc May 13, 2009 at 10:32 am #

    Indeed. Perhaps all the crazy-hard climbing is an escape from this http://tinyurl.com/qfvla9 ??

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    • steve schultz May 13, 2009 at 11:09 am #

      RC.com is always entertaining. wow.

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  3. greg May 13, 2009 at 12:54 pm #

    Tommy is a straight up bad ass. Great news update. As for RC.com, that shit is to funny. Some people actually just need to go climbing.

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  4. D. Roth May 15, 2009 at 7:38 am #

    I had to check BigUp and think it’s worthwhile to paste their synopsis since the route name isn’t mentioned here:
    The past week we’ve been filming on what is possibly the most badass piece of stone in the solar system, El Capitan. Tommy Caldwell has been working on freeing an old aid line on the sustained east face of El Cap called Mescalito. This side of the wall has historically been aid-climbing territory due to its lack of cracks and typical free-climbing features. The result is the most difficult and futuristic big wall free climbing that has ever been attempted; in Tommy’s own words, “this could be a 10 year project for me”. The idea of our upcoming film Progression is to give a glimpse into the process of how our sport evolves; who is currently pushing the limits and how? What will the sport look like in the future? Mescalito represents the future of big wall free climbing: At least 10 pitches of 5.14, 7 foot sideways dynos, and double-digit boulder problems stacked on top of each other 2,000 feet off the deck. We covered Tommy working on 4 distinct sections that are representative of the route.

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  5. sock hands May 15, 2009 at 5:37 pm #

    i am curious who ‘angry’ is and why steph davis is referred to as 2g1c, which i can totally figure out on my own in all actuality.

    i care, because i work. working people care about every salacious detail not involving work because working people are not actually alive themselves.

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