There have been a lot of videos made about climbing the Nose on El Cap in a day, most notably Tommy Caldwell in Dosage IV and the insane speed record of Hans Florine and Yuji Hirayama shown in the latest Masters Of Stone movie. However, watching the very best at any sport do something doesn’t really give us common folk a real sense for how difficult something like climbing El Cap in a day can be.
Earlier this summer Midwestnerers Ben Ingman and Travis Melin were out in Yosemite plying their trade when they got the idea of trying to climb the Nose of El Capitan in a day. Actually, they had only planned on climbing part way up The Nose but decided to push to the top after the first pitches went quickly.
In any event, they brought along a camera and recorded a few brief updates as they made their way up. I thought the videos provided a nice insight into the emotional and physical toll it takes on you when on the wall for 24 hours (especially when you weren’t exactly planning for it) so here they are:
Feeling pretty good about things so far…
Starting to feel not so good about things…
24 hours later…
And while we’re talking about aid climbing this is a great time to share the always classic Aid Climbing Rant:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boQHYBhlOcs
