On October 15th 2011, Sasha DiGiulian became the first American women to climb the grade 9a (5.14d) with her historic ascent of “Pure Imagination” in Kentucky’s Red River Gorge. Keith Ladzinski and Andy Mann (Three Strings Media) were there to capture her efforts and tell her story.
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On January 14, 2015, Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson made the first free ascent of The Dawn Wall on Yosemite’s El Capitan. Watch Tommy climb pitch 15 (5.14c) in this first footage released by the film crew on the wall.
“The crux holds of pitch 15 are some of the smallest and sharpest holds I have ever attempted to hold onto,” Tommy wrote on his Facebook page. Four unique camera angles reveal those minuscule holds and the 1,300 feet of exposure under Tommy’s precarious foot placements. While multiple pitches of extremely difficult climbing remained above, the completion of pitch 15 was considered the last major hurdle to the eventual success of this seven-year project.
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After 19 days of battling the hardest, longest free climb in the world, Tommy Caldwell (@tommycaldwell) and Kevin Jorgeson (@kjorgeson) embrace at the end of the difficulties of the Dawn Wall of El Capitan
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Tommy Caldwell, Kevin Jorgeson become first to negotiate difficult climbing route on Yosemite’s El Capitan using only hands and feet; safety rope used for falls
Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson, the climbers in Yosemite National Park who have been in the news for a couple of weeks now, finally accomplished the feat everyone has been talking about:
They became the first to free climb the difficult Dawn Wall of El Capitan, using only safety ropes to prevent them from falling but otherwise negotiating the near 3,000-foot granite monolith with only their hands and feet … More
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