Huber brothers speed record on the Nose

By
EKR
on October 16, 2007 10:26 PM | Comments (3) |
Check out this fairly impressive video of the Huber brothers setting the aided speed record (though with a lot of free and unprotected free climbing) of 2:45 for the Nose of El Capitan on October 8, 2007 (þ Eu-Jin Goh).

More video here.

3 Comments

By Dan Simon on October 17, 2007 10:16 AM

Big deal. They could have done the same climb way, way faster, if only they'd had the sense to choose the opposite direction.

By Mike on October 18, 2007 11:29 PM

Isn't that the climb that took 300 bolts and 30 days when Batso Harding did it?

By Mike on October 19, 2007 9:35 AM

Correcting myself, The Nose was originally done as a siege climb, 47 climbing days spread over about 2 years. It was the Dawn Wall that Harding and Dean Caldwell did in one 27-day push. The second ascent of that route partially "erased the route" (most of the bolts were removed). The Dawn Wall, too, has been speed-climbed.

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