Tommy Caldwell on The Dawn Wall, El Capitan, YNP, USA
Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgenson have undertaken one of the most ambitious climbing projects ever conceived - to free climb El Capitan's Dawn Wall. Tommy began the project in 2007 and enlisted highball boulderer and Bishop denizen, Jorgenson, soon thereafter to share in the project.
The climb includes 7 pitches of 5.14 and 7 pitches of 5.13 amongst a total of 28 pitches, and wanders across the Dawn Wall connecting parts of Mescalito, Adrift, Reticent, and Warren Harding's famed Wall of the Early Morning Light.
The scale, difficulty, and sustained nature of the project is mind-boggling.
Tommy recently shared on his blog that he'd used a modified CrossFit workout to help train for the project. It's called 'Cindy' and is a routine whereby you do as many sets of 5 pull-ups, 10 pushups, and 15 situps as you can in 20 minutes. Tommy was able to do 26 sets in the alloted time...
How many can you do???
