I had a brief chat with Kevin Jorgeson. Currently he and Tommy Caldwell are resting down in the valley, waiting out a storm, but he says things are moving along according to plan. Before this session on the wall, there were still a few pitches for which they hadn't checked the free climbing...
Some of these replies were posted on Björn's old blog website, and so won't be from registered UKC users
Anonymous31 Mar 2010
Sorry but "team-free" ascents (where each climber leads half the pitches) of multi-pitch routes don't really count as free ascents, anymore than one climber freeing half a single pitch and their partner freeing the other half would. There is no such thing as "we" freed it. A route does not go free until someone actually does it.
Phillip31 Mar 2010
Who said they were planning on doing it "team free"? Sounds to me like each are going to train for their respective weaknesses and return in the autumn so each of them can free it as a team - not "team free."
Björn31 Mar 2010
They're planning to climb it all free, meaning they alternate leads, but that the one seconding climbs it clean as well.
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