Epic TV Climbing Daily 07
  • 10 years ago
British climber Hazel Findlay hashed out yet another successful trip to Yosemite, with two, yes two ascents of El Capitan, including a one day ascent of the 'normal route', The Nose. Hazel also climbed Freerider -?? her 3rd free ascent of El Cap. In the past she has also freed Premuir and Golden Gate, and said on her blog that although Freerider is supposedly the easiest of the routes she's done, there really is no easy way up El Cap. To give you some idea, Freerider is 5.12D, which is about 7c, and it's burly, all body climbing up chimneys and corners. To avoid hauling their kit up the route, Hazel and her climbing partner, Yosemite local James Lucas, abseiled down the route to stash kit. The route took them 3 days, including abseiling the entire route at the end of the final day.
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