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Four Walls Freed In Zion In A Day For Caldwell & Honnold, Three Solos In A Day For Honnold

Four Walls Freed In Zion In A Day For Caldwell & Honnold, Three Solos In A Day For Honnold

Posted March 19, 2013 at 7:57 am · Comments { 0 } · Photo: Alex Honnold & Tommy Caldwell freeing Touchstone Wall as part of a huge day in Zion

Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell team up for a huge day of free climbing in Zion after which Honnold does some scrambling…

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Posted March 18, 2013 at 8:02 am · Comments { 13 } ·

Tommy Caldwell, writing for La Sportiva about a trip to Switzerland that had him questioning the mantra that “Sport Climbing is Neither”:

Yeah, sport climbing is the safe type of climbing… right. That is what I was telling myself as I looked down and saw my rope hanging free for thirty feet then gently arcing towards my last bolt more than 40 feet away. I looked up… no more bolts in sight and no possible place for gear either. If I fall here I am looking at a 100-foot fall that will leave me hanging 40 feet below my belayer. But it’s a free fall. I should be all right…maybe.

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Facebook Stories: The Dawn Wall

Posted January 23, 2013 at 12:55 pm · Comments { 1 } ·
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Making Tommy

Posted January 21, 2013 at 2:36 pm · Comments { 3 } ·
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The Triple Header: Tommy Caldwell & Jeremy Collins In RMNP

Posted January 11, 2013 at 6:02 am · Comments { 0 } ·
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Three’s A Party On The Dawn Wall For Fall 2012 Season

Three’s A Party On The Dawn Wall For Fall 2012 Season

Posted October 8, 2012 at 11:25 am · Comments { 9 } ·

Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson add a third member to their team for the Fall 2012 effort to free climb El Cap’s Dawn Wall

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“You think it will be cool till it isn’t fun anymore”

Posted May 23, 2012 at 8:14 am · Comments { 0 } ·

The North Face catches up with their athlete Alex Honnold to find out a bit more about his and Tommy Caldwell’s big day in Yosemite, his plans to rope solo the same feat for his segment in the Reel Rock Tour and a casual mention of how he free soloed the West Face of El Cap.  As to how the idea for the triple link-up came about:

You do one route and you have a lot of time left in the day and you think, “Oh maybe we should have done two.” And eventually you do two with time left over and you say, “maybe we could do three…” and we did three and we didn’t have any time left over so we said, “we’re over it.”

More detail and pictures from Kelly Cordes on the big day here as well.

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