{"id":124888,"date":"2016-11-18T19:11:44","date_gmt":"2016-11-19T02:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=124888"},"modified":"2016-11-18T19:11:44","modified_gmt":"2016-11-19T02:11:44","slug":"yosemites-hardest-rock-climb-is-finally-putting-up-a-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=124888","title":{"rendered":"Yosemite\u2019s Hardest Rock Climb Is Finally Putting Up a Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Adam Ondra, the Czech rock climber who\u2019s considered the world\u2019s best, was making quick work of the Dawn Wall\u2014until he reached the crux.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It appeared that Adam Ondra was going to just waltz up the Dawn Wall\u2014the 3,000-foot rock climb on the steepest, longest section of El Capitan in California\u2019s Yosemite National Park.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old Czech rock climber, who is a World Champion sport climber and widely considered the best rock climber in the world, had been absolutely crushing the Dawn Wall since he began his bid to achieve its second free ascent at 1:30 a.m. on Monday, November 14. That morning, climbing through the dark and\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/adventure\/activities\/climbing\/adam-ondra-dawn-wall-crux-attempt\/\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Ondra, the Czech rock climber who\u2019s considered the world\u2019s best, was making quick work of the Dawn Wall\u2014until he reached the crux. It appeared that Adam Ondra was going to just waltz up the Dawn Wall\u2014the 3,000-foot rock climb on the steepest, longest section of El Capitan in California\u2019s Yosemite National Park. The 23-year-old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rock-climbing-mountain-climbing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124889,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124888\/revisions\/124889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}