Climbers Archives: Tommy Caldwell
Deep North: A Trip To The Arrigetch Peaks With Caldwell & Kennedy

Deep North: A Trip To The Arrigetch Peaks With Caldwell & Kennedy

Posted January 23, 2012 at 8:02 am · Comments { 0 } ·

Courtesy of Patagonia comes a short video of Tommy Caldwell & Hayden Kennedy exploring the Alaskan Bush

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NY Times Examines “From-The-Route Social Media” In Climbing

Posted December 13, 2011 at 8:27 am · Comments { 6 } ·

The New York Times picks up on the issue of climbers using technology to provide near-live updates of their efforts, with Tommy Caldwell’s Dawn Wall Push as a prime example:

The Dawn Wall, as Caldwell’s project is known, is the latest example of what has become an increasingly accepted practice among professional climbers and the wider climbing community: from-the-route social media. Observers enjoy it, sponsors encourage it and climbers get to share what is inherently a selfish pursuit.

I may be a bit biased, but I like this trend.

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Watch Tommy Caldwell & Others Tonight On The Discovery Channel

Watch Tommy Caldwell & Others Tonight On The Discovery Channel

Posted December 9, 2011 at 7:35 am · Comments { 1 } ·

Set your DVRs to catch Tommy Caldwell and a cast of others on The Discovery Channel tonight

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Caldwell Matches Previous Highpoint On Dawn Wall Project

Caldwell Matches Previous Highpoint On Dawn Wall Project

Posted November 8, 2011 at 11:52 am · Comments { 7 } · Photo: Tommy Caldwell and team hunkered down on El Cap

Tommy Caldwell’s push to free a new route up El Capitan’s Dawn Wall is 10 days old now and the events over the weekend were really something.

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Tommy Caldwell Explains His New Approach To Sharing Dawn Wall Updates

Posted November 4, 2011 at 12:00 pm · Comments { 0 } ·

Tommy Caldwell has freed the first 11 pitches of his Dawn Wall project and is now working on pitch 12.  Of course, you already knew this if you’ve been following the updates and pictures on his Facebook page.  For someone who has normally been rather reserved when it comes to the online climbing world, this new level of sharing by Caldwell has caught many by surprise.  In this post on The Cleanest Line he explains to friend Kelly Cordes some of the thoughts behind this change:

Although it felt a bit unnatural at first, I decided to embrace the circus on this project. There are many reasons for this. First of all, it becomes a circus whether I like it or not. The Ask a Climber Program here in Yosemite has put the climbers on El Cap on display. There are daily blog updates complete with photos of what is going on. If you can’t fight ‘em, might as well join ‘em.

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Dawn Wall Push Underway

Dawn Wall Push Underway

Posted November 1, 2011 at 8:00 am · Comments { 7 } · Photo: Tom Evans

The push is on for Tommy Caldwell to free his Dawn Wall project on El Cap, this time without injured partner Kevin Jorgeson

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Dawn Wall 2011

Posted October 19, 2011 at 1:18 pm · Comments { 3 } ·

Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson returned to Yosemite late last month to resume work on their Dawn Wall project. Unfortunately, Kevin has been sidelined, at least temporarily, by an ankle injury sustained while working one of the pitches. Tommy is still there doing his thing though, and in this piece for the Cleanest Line he talks about what drives him to work on projects like this:

The formula is pretty set. Dream up a climbing trip or pick a climbing objective, then direct my life towards that goal… whatever it takes. I have come to depend on the stress and pain. For me, a day without suffering is like a day without sunshine. I stuff my gnarled, fungus infested feet into shoes three sizes too small and climb until my fingers bleed. And if that wasn’t enough I have decided I prefer to do this on really big climbs where the pain can stretch on for days, weeks, even months.

You can follow their progress by following Tommy and Kevin on Twitter, by checking out the El Cap Report or better yet just waiting for me to share any updates I come across.

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Trailer: 2011 Reel Rock Film Tour

Posted September 6, 2011 at 9:00 am · Comments { 1 } ·
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New 5.13+ Multipitch By Trotter & Caldwell In Canada

Posted August 16, 2011 at 12:57 pm · Comments { 0 } ·

Sonnie Trotter and Tommy Caldwell have teamed up to establish a 15 pitch route up the Diamond Face on Mount Louis in the Canadian Rockies.  Dubbed The Shining, the route has 7 pitches that were bolted on lead with difficulties up to 5.13+.  After three days of prep the pair returned to free all the pitches in a single push:

It is one of the best routes I have ever climbed, and I could not imagine having a better partner for it. In fact, if it were not for Tommy, it would definitely still be a project.  He’s my ultimate hero.

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