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NEWS: NEWSFLASH: James McHaffie Climbs Salathe Wall

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 UKC News 22 May 2014
James McHaffie in Margalef, Spain, 4 kbTop British trad climber James 'Caff' McHaffie has just free-climbed Salathe Wall, 5.13b, ground-up on El Capitan, Yosemite...

Read more at http://www.ukclimbing.com/news/item.php?id=68940
 Enty 22 May 2014
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Awesome!

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 Mark Collins 22 May 2014
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Got a photo of a party on Salathe head wall last week, but I guess it wasn't these guys as they've only just completed?

Amazing effort.
In reply to UKC News:

Awesome vid! The climbing looks so hard and SO insecure!
 dsh 22 May 2014
In reply to John Stainforth:

It's hard to tell in the video, is the head wall overhanging a lot?
In reply to dsh:

Don't ask me! But from the photos I have seen it seems to be at least vertical to slightly beyond.
 Jim Brooke 24 May 2014
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Nuff respect...

The rest in that vid looks utterly mindblowing...!
 Rick Graham 24 May 2014
In reply to dsh:
> It's hard to tell in the video, is the head wall overhanging a lot?

Slightly overhanging.

Confirmed by Pete Meads comment on his photo of Howard Johnston in the UKC photos.

http://www.ukclimbing.com/images/dbpage.php?id=81408
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 HP 26 May 2014
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An account from Dan McManus' POV:

http://danmcmanus.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/salathe-wall.html

In reply to UKC News:

Amazing exposure, to see all that air below you... and she leans upside down!
 Fraser 26 May 2014
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Hats off to Caff for the ascent.

Also, that's the best bit of climbing footage I've seen in a very, very long time. MS-G is an amazing climber and the filming and editing was excellent.
 Mark Collins 28 May 2014
In reply to Mark Collins:
> (In reply to UKC News)
>
> Got a photo of a party on Salathe head wall last week, but I guess it wasn't these guys as they've only just completed?
>
> Amazing effort.

The photo:
http://www.ukclimbing.com/images/dbpage.php?id=240029
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