On Thursday, rock climber Hans Florine began his 100th ascent of the Nose ofEl Capitan in Yosemite National Park, . He and his team plan to sleep on the wall for two nights before finishingon Saturday.
The Nose, a classic Yosemite route, is nearly 3,000 feet tall, graded 5.9 C2, and requires 31 pitches to complete, . Despite being El Cap’s easiest full-length route, injuries are not uncommon on the Nose, . In the past four decades, 41 out of 101 incident reports on El Cap came from the Nose (including a 2015 fall that resulted in death).
Many well-known climbers have completed the Nose, including LynnHill, who was the first to free-climb it.Dean Potter,along with partner Sean Leary,held the route’sspeed recorduntil 2012, whenFlorine and Alex Honnold broke the free-climbing record with a time of2:23:51.
Speed isn’t the focus of Florine’s current ascent, which he’s climbing withexplorer Fiona Thornewill and journalist Jayme Moye, according to Gear Junkie.
“The two partners I am going with have never been higher than 400 feet up the cliff,”Florine told Gear Junkie. “It will be super fun seeing and experiencing their reactions.”
We've reached Dolt Tower. With on his 100th ascent of the Nose on El Cap!
— Jayme Moye (@JaymeMoye)
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