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NEWSFLASH: El Niño for Cook and Phillips

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 UKC News 16 May 2016
Jacob Cook and Robbie Phillips, 4 kbJacob Cook and Robbie Phillips have repeated El Niño 5.13c (8a+) on El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. This world-renowned 30-pitch route was first climbed by the Huber Brothers back in 1998.

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 Fraser 16 May 2016
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Great effort. I wonder if 'The Prophet' is next up?!
 jon 16 May 2016
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A great achievement! Do climbers still use the Hubers' tactic on the 'manpowered rappel' or just rap/lower in a conventional manner? Or indeed, has it been freed?

In reply to Fraser:

"The Prophet" is definitely something Jacob and I are keen for but I need to up my crack skillz a bit first... I'd have to be on crack to attempt 8b crack right now :P or maybe I could just pull harder but that hasn't worked so well for me on the cracks thus far
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In reply to jon:

So I'm not really sure if others have done this? I don't link Leo or Patch did and I'm sure Dan and Caff didn't. We didn't :P I just kind of thought it seemed a bit silly and it would be simpler to just abseil 5m from the hanging belay haha But fair play to Alex and Thomas for their inventiveness!
 WildCamper 16 May 2016
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Impressive chaps, well done
 Valaisan 16 May 2016
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Awesome Robbie and Jacob, well done. Huge efforts and great rewards

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