Chris Van Leuven

“It’s a good mixture of crack climbing, offwidth, chimney, and some really good face climbing,” —Ryan Evans

After climbing El Cap and Half Dome camp-to-camp in fewer than 24 hours, using bikes, Danford Jooste (29) and Nick Ehman (27) pulled off the Triple (sans bikes this time) —the Nose on El Cap, RNWF of Half Dome, and the South Face of Watkins in 21:35.

“As a professional climber,” says DiGiulian, “I needed to find an easy way to get greens and vital nutrients into my body”

“Probably the best eight-pitch crack collection in the Valley,” says SuperTopo: Yosemite Valley Free Climbs. Summit Post calls it “the most enjoyable multi-pitch 5.11 in the Valley.”

He climbed Freerider in just over 18 hours and now has his sights on other big wall free routes in Yosemite

This past March in Montana, Manoah Ainuu, Nate Kenny, Conrad Anker, Whitney Stowe, and Matt Cornell established The Rave, a 180-metre line in the Winter Dance area. Only Cornell sent the overhanging cobble-climb.

Brandon Adams and Roger Putnam climbed the aid route Iron Hawk in 15:37, taking 15 hours off the record set by Ammon McNeely and Cedar Wright in 2004

Take a journey up the never-ending 5.12a/b Crimson Cringe in Max Buschini’s new film

“Despite the low-key face that’s being put on this ‘pilot,’ this is a huge deal for Valley climbers”

“I’m inspired to try the hardest things I can do”