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Sunday, June 03, 2018
 
Two Expert Climbers Killed in Fall From El Cap’s Freeblast
Two Expert Climbers Killed in Fall From El Cap’s Freeblast
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On the morning of June 2 at 8 a.m., while speed climbing on the lower pitches of the Salathé Wall on El Capitan—a section called Freeblast—two highly experienced climbers, Tim Klein and Jason Wells, were involved in a fatal accident. The team was simul-climbing through Pitch 9 or 10, 5.7 terrain approaching Mammoth Terraces, when the incident occurred. A scream was heard and both climbers fell, roped together, 1,000 feet to the ground.

Wells had dozens of El Cap ascents under his belt, many of them with Klein. It wasn’t uncommon for the pair to ascend the 3,000-foot formation [...] multiple times together in the same weekend, or sometimes twice in one day.
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“This would have been Tim’s 107th [in a day] El Cap ascent. Two weeks ago, in a typical weekend, Jason flew out from Boulder to Fresno and Tim picked him up from the airport. Then they climbed the Nose on Saturday and did it again on Sunday, and then on Sunday afternoon Jason flew home to his family.”

Wells was a cutting edge speed climber who raced up Colorado’s The Naked Edge route with partner Stefan Griebel, still holding the speed record at 24:29 for the demanding 650-foot line. In May 2012, Wells and Klein climbed both El Cap’s Nose and Salathé Wall routes in 22 hours. The previous year they climbed the Nose twice in fewer than 22 hours.
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Tim Klein, 42 [...] climbed at an indoor gym in Santa Clarita, California, for 9 hours, 26 minutes and 15 seconds for a total of 29,065 feet, topping the height of Everest by 36 feet. He broke a Guinness Record in the process, beating the previous time of 13 hours and 25 minutes.
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https://www.climbing.com/news/jason-wells-tim-klein-killed-in-fall-from-el-caps-freeblast/

https://www.climbing.com/news/jason-wells-tim-klein-killed-in-fall-from-el-caps-freeblast/

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