Team Geared Up

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - DCURCC reader, Sarunas, sent in a link to FreakClimbing.com, featuring an ascent the Nose of El Capitan in 2hr 45min 45sec in Yosemite.

It took Warren J Harding, Wayne Merry and George Whitmore 47 days to ascend the 1000m-high face in 1958, but the two German brothers made the best of a warm autumn to break the previous best time of 2hr 48min 50sec set by Hans Florine and Yuji Hirayama in 2006 by over three minutes.

We featured the Huber Brothers who completed this task earlier in the month in a video posted in our Friday Links. The video features them on the route, but presumably from the previous record attempt.

-Robin-

(Image Credit: Max Reichl and Heinz Zack)