UKC

https://www.facebook.com/kjorgeson

In reply to Ian Parsons:

Cheers for the heads-up.
That's gonna make Facebook interesting for the next few days.

In reply to JLS:
Indeed; arguably more inspiring than anything else on ST and UKC at the moment as well - although Lonnie Dupré, currently solo on Denali's West Buttress (it's winter!), has to be pretty hardcore.

A couple more links (regular followers of this epic will already have them):

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tommy-Caldwell/180070212030430
http://www.yosemitebigwall.com/mescalito

The Mescalito topo gives an idea of where the intended route ("Free Dawn Wall") actually goes - at least the bottom half and most of the last bit!

In reply to Ian Parsons:

Pitch 10 now ticked too. How many does that leave? What's going to happen if the 'seriously cold and windy weather' arrives? Does coming down signify failure?

In reply to jon:
Either that....or common sense

Interesting times.

Edit:

I liked this post from 16th Nov:

Dawn Wall Update...

Today marks the end of our first month of work on the Dawn Wall for 2014. Here’s what we’ve been up to, by the numbers:
Climbing Days: 20
Rest Days: 11
Total Hours Climbing: 120
Total Hours Night Climbing: 80
Feet to Crux Pitches: 1,100
Best Jumaring Time Base to Crux: 40 minutes
Best Rappelling Time Crux to Base: 10 minutes
Total Feet Jumared: 22,000
Hardest Pitch: 14 (first traverse)
Likely Grade of Pitch 14: 5.14d
Confidence Level for Pitch 14 Send: 8 out of 10
Highlight So Far: Team send of Pitch 7, 5.14a
Tommy’s Crux: The Dyno
My Crux: Pitch 12, 5.14b, The Molar Traverse
Split Tips: 0
Grated Knuckles: 3 (all mine…)
New Sequences Found: 7

We have 4 more climbing days before we take a week off for Thanksgiving to let our bodies recover a bit. Then, if all goes to plan, we will prepare for a send push some time in December. Thanks for all the encouraging messages and stoke everyone! We are giving it all we got...

In reply to Fraser:

Why so much night climbing? Is it that hot in Yosemite in November?

In reply to jon:


I suppose it's like any other ongoing project. Do you regard each successive - but unsuccessful - attempt as failure, or simply as one more step towards ultimate completion? My money's on the latter!