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Naked ascent of El Capitan

2017-06-17 17:40:52.531026+00 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Yeah, sure, Alex Honnold recently fre-soloed El Cap, but let's look to the real accomplishments: First naked ascent of El Capitan:

El Capitan saw two firsts last week. On June 3, Alex Honnold made the historic first free solo of the monolithic wall via Freerider, climbing the route with nothing but the clothes on his back. On June 6, Leah Pappajohn and Jonathan Fleury traded out the clothes for a rope and completed the first naked ascent of El Cap via the Nose in a day. We spoke to Pappajohn about the ascent.

A couple of awesome quotes from that interview:

As I was stemming up the first section of the great roof, Jon admitted that he had never stared at a vagina for so long. Just a part of the job description of an attentive naked belayer.

And

There is now real nude El Cap beta. The beta is that clothes only slow you down.

Via For the first time ever, climbers ascend El Capitan naked

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