New Speed Record On The Nose By Potter And Leary

Posted November 8, 2010 at 7:20 am · Comments { 8 } ·

According to SuperTopo and Speedclimb.com Dean Potter and Sean Leary teamed up to set a new speed record for climbing The Nose on El Capitan.  The pair blazed up the wall in at an astonishing 2:36:45, shaving 20 seconds off the previous record set by Hans Florine and Yuji Hirayama in 2008.

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8 Responses to New Speed Record On The Nose By Potter And Leary

  1. kevin November 9, 2010 at 7:34 pm #

    how come this didnt make the front page?

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    • Narc November 10, 2010 at 7:50 am #

      Several reasons…

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  2. mose November 10, 2010 at 12:26 pm #

    hmm… care to speculate?

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  3. Narc November 10, 2010 at 12:32 pm #

    Didn’t mean to be so vague in my first response. Just a lot of things go into what gets posted where I suppose.

    I guess the answer I’ll go with is that since they are likely to try again I’ll wait to see where the final number sits at the end of the season before making a huge deal out of it…

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  4. rachel November 16, 2010 at 4:37 pm #

    Hey brian, i read this on supertopo:

    On or around November 6, Sean Leary and Dean Potter climbed the Nose of El Capitan in 2:35.45. They broke the old record of 2:37:05 held by Yuji Hirayama and Hans Florine. October 2008 .

    So, im wondering where the 20 seconds came from? It looks like a bit more than that to me. Was this another attempt? Or mis-information?

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    • Narc November 16, 2010 at 4:54 pm #

      I believe the correct time is 2:36:45 based on everything I’ve read. The 2:35:45 might be a typo.

      They tried again yesterday but the top of the route was wet apparently so no dice.

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  5. Rhoads November 17, 2010 at 9:50 pm #

    Prolly not front page because Speed Climbing is losing its sheen.

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    • Narc November 18, 2010 at 7:07 am #

      Little bit of that too…

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