Climbers Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson have been attempting a free climb of El Capitan’s Dawn Wall for over five years. The 30-pitch route, once climbed, will be the hardest big wall free climb in the world. The Dawn Wall includes 13 pitches of 5.13 and seven pitches of 5.14 (3 of which are 5.14+).
In case you haven’t been following, they are currently in Yosemite working on a Dawn Wall attempt and it sounds like it’s going really well!
This video from Bluewater Ropes (found on the gearjunkie.com site) shows one of the training days Tommy Caldwell put in to prepare for the Dawn Wall.
He goes out to the Monastery, one of his local crags (which he and his dad developed when Tommy was a teen), near Estes Park, Colorado, and climbs the four hardest routes there.
The four routes are the Quickening (5.13 c/d), the Grand Ol Opry (5.14b), 3rd Millennium (5.14a), and Dreamcatcher (5.13d).
Tommy was using this Monastery day as a guage of where his training has put him fitness wise. Based on the video he looks strong and ready for the Dawn Wall….
Good luck guys!
WATCH ABOVE or CLICK HERE: Tommy Caldwell Training at the Monastery Crag
