Golden Gate | E8/7c+ Multi-pitch on El Capitan

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First free ascent.

The Monster offwidth is the nastiest kind of crack - just too narrow to disappear inside yet much too wide to get an efficient jam with any part of your body between it's parallel walls. The moves are abnormal; abnormally strenuous, abnormally irritating and abnormally time-consuming. It's a horror-show; inch by inch you scrape your was upwards, heading towards release and redemption. It's a real battle, and it is just this confrontation with oft-quoted adventure that we are searching for in this vertical world. [1]

References

[1] On The Edge Issue 104, page 12, page 32

[2] https://www.planetmountain.com/en/news/climbing/golden-gate-the-huber-brothers-climb-el-capitan.html

First free ascent.

References

[1] On The Edge Issue 104, page 12

[2] https://www.planetmountain.com/en/news/climbing/golden-gate-the-huber-brothers-climb-el-capitan.html

Ueli was tantalisingly close to onsighting the entire route, taking a small fall on a relatively easy pitch after he slipped on wet rock.

References

[1] https://gripped.com/profiles/the-climber-who-nearly-onsighted-el-capitan/

References

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DemuhmesC3k

References

[1] https://www.instagram.com/p/CPlr6PuDqg3/

References

[1] https://www.planetmountain.com/en/news/climbing/miska-izakovicova-free-ascent-golden-gate-el-capitan-yosemite.html

[2] https://www.desnivel.com/escalada-roca/miska-izakovicova-repite-golden-gate-en-libre-en-el-capitan/

In a day.

References

[1] https://www.instagram.com/p/DDup8C6SGw1/?img_index=1

Ground up in a day, 14 hrs -- had previously done the upper pitches when climbing the Heart Route the previous Autumn.

References

[1] https://www.instagram.com/p/DNEUT1ESdlF/?img_index=1

[2] https://blackdiamondequipment.com/blogs/stories/spring-quarter