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Monday, June 18, 2012
 
Honnold was attempting something no one had done before: climb the three biggest rock faces in the California park...
Honnold was attempting something no one had done before: climb the three biggest rock faces in the California park (Mount Watkins, El Capitan and Half Dome) in succession, alone, and in less than 24 hours. He finished in 19. For all 7000 vertical feet of rock, except 500, Honnold planned to free-climb.

“There is nothing in sports that compares to this,” said John Long, who in 1975 was the first to scale El Capitan in a day with his partners Billy Westbay and Jim Bridwell. [...]

On June 1, Honnold climbed the iconic 2,000-foot-high northwest face of Half Dome, alone,  in 1:21 — 48 minutes faster than his previous record....

Back at the van we discovered what Honnold had forgotten: a chalk bag [...] About 1,000 feet up Honnold borrowed chalk from a group of climbers he encountered, and by 3:30 a.m. he was at the top, setting a new record with his climbing partner Hans Florine of 2:23:51 on the Nose besting the previous record of  2:36:45 set by Dean Potter and Sean Leary in 2010.

Then he went to climb Half Dome, at ~8 a.m....


One week later, 2 female americans Jes Meiris and Quinn Brett broke female record on the Nose route of 10:19, beating the last record set by Libby Sauter and Chantel Astorga in Sep of 2011 by 21 minutes.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/16/sports/rock-climber-alex-honnold-tackles-yosemites-biggest-rock-faces.html?pagewanted=all
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/16/sports/rock-climber-alex-honnold-tackles-yosemites-biggest-rock-faces.html?pagewanted=all

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