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BBC Breakfast 8:50 - Dawn Wall item (with either Tom Randall or Leo Houlding) this morning.

Alan

In reply to Alan James - Rockfax:

Yes, I saw this and mentioned it on the dawn wall news thread. It's turned into a real media event. Leo H was very good I thought. Nice to hear someone who knows what he's talking about explaining things such as free climbing on mainstream TV.

In reply to Alan James - Rockfax:

Article on BBC website also this morning.

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-30793748

In reply to Alan James - Rockfax:

Great little interview that-knowledgeable and informative but pitched well for the general public too.

In reply to Otis:

It was a good little piece, certainly better than some over the last week or so. They do only get a very short time though and it is difficult for the interviewers to get past the 'sleeping on the wall' and 'skin wearing out' topics.

I thought Leo missed a trick at the end. The interviewer asked "is that something you'd like to do" and I am pretty sure she was referring to the basic idea of climbing El Cap. Leo replied (understandably) as if she was asking if he would like to repeat the Dawn Wall which obviously is a different question, especially for Leo who has an outstanding record of hard ascents on El Cap.

Alan

In reply to Alan James - Rockfax:

I was surprised to read in the BBC news link that they were using their hands and feet! What else were they supposed to use.

In reply to Alan James - Rockfax:

NPR are have had a couple of interesting pieces on this,
http://www.npr.org/2015/01/06/375357301/free-climbing-yosemites-el-capitan-...

http://www.npr.org/2015/01/11/376189069/a-half-century-of-battles-for-the-b...

and there is this I have never listened to but I shall now as it cannot be worse than Jeremy "I`m a clever lefty " Whine ,over lunch

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15825820

In reply to Alan James - Rockfax:

Are they climbing this right now? Surely it's deep winter in Yosemite? I don't understand.

In reply to Alan James - Rockfax:


I didn't see the 8:50am interview but in the earlier one at 7:50am, Leo stated he'd previously climbed El Cap, so I think she may possibly have been talking about DW.

In reply to Fraser:


Yes, you are probably right. I didn't realise they did it twice. They phoned me yesterday (along with half a dozen other radio stations etc.) and were just after someone for the 8:50 slot.

Alan

In reply to Alan James - Rockfax:

Great, interactive link here on the New York Times.:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/01/09/sports/the-dawn-wall-el-capit...