Climbers Archives: Tommy Caldwell

The Dawn Wall Push: Day 3

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The Dawn Wall Push: Day 2

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The Dawn Wall Push: Day 1

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Tommy Caldwell Climbs The Four Hardest Routes At The Monastery, In A Day!!!

Posted December 31, 2014 at 9:49 am · Comments { 3 } ·
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Champions: Tommy Caldwell

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→ The Day Tommy Caldwell Sent The Salathe Wall In A Day∞

Posted May 7, 2014 at 6:39 am · Comments { 0 } ·

Great piece by Tommy Caldwell about how he climbed El Cap’s Salathe Wall in a day just months after losing his finger in a home improvement accident:

But in the blink of an eye, it had all been snatched away from me.

A pale, sad-looking doctor came into my hospital room.
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He was a hand surgeon; he was also a climber who had been keeping tabs on my progress.

“Tommy, things aren’t look good,” he said. “You’re going to lose your finger. You better start thinking about what else you want to do with your life.”

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→ Tommy Caldwell: What I’ve Learned∞

Posted March 31, 2014 at 9:38 am · Comments { 0 } ·

Tommy Caldwell, writing in Rock & Ice:

My greatest hardship would be the ordeal in Kyrgyzstan where four of us were kidnapped by Islamic militants for six days. It’s a long, complicated story but, in short, we and our captors were hunted by the Kyrgyzstan military. We abandoned our food and warm clothes and hid out under boulders and in holes in the ground. We eventually escaped when I pushed one of our captors off a cliff and we made a run for the nearest military outpost.

It’s interesting to think about how Caldwell’s ensuing career of incredible big wall free ascents might have been different had the trauma of Kyrgyzstan not happened.

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