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FRI NIGHT VID - Dawn Wall Project Triple Bill

© Jeff Johnson

Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson are making headway on their 6-year project the "Dawn Wall." Having climbed all of the pitches in November 2014, the route was proved climbable and the pair are currently on the wall attempting to free the route in its entirety. All pitches up to and including the 14th (UKC News Report) - the crux traverse of the route - have now been freed by both climbers and the duo are looking set to finally complete this mammoth climb in one push.

Tommy commented on Instagram:

"Oh snap. The hardest pitch got sent by both of us tonight. I might be in a little shock right now. The route is taking a toll on our fingertips as we are now both climbing with taped up fingertips, but it doesn't seem to be slowing us down too much. Oh yeah!!!!"

Tonight we have a triple bill of videos documenting their progress on the route, courtesy of Rock and Ice Magazine who are making short video edits from each day on the wall.


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2 Jan, 2015
Don't forget Day 4: https://vimeo.com/115807807
4 Jan, 2015
4 Jan, 2015
Since then it's been reported on Facebook that Tommy sent the second of the three 9a pitches and Kevin narrowly failed to sent it. I wonder what they'll do now? Will Tommy wait until Kevin sends and possibly jeopardise finishing the route? Tommy was planning to miss-out the next 9a dyno pitch by instead doing the "loop pitch" at around 8b+ to circumvent it and so really, his hard hard climbing is behind him and the light at the end of the tunnel must be getting quite bright. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tommy-Caldwell/180070212030430?fref=nf
4 Jan, 2015
As a media event this is done a bit like the first attempts of famous mountains like the N Face of the Eiger. The news is rolled out each day and gives a quasi-live reporting on what has happened. Unfortunately the video footage is not as good or spectacular as it could have been given the fact this is Yosemite. Having a remote controlled drone camera up there with them would've been the way to go and with a sponsor like adidas I'd have thought that would be within their budget of this project. Oh well, next time maybe.
4 Jan, 2015
I expect there is better video to come. But even so, I agree, it shows how "on a shoestring" professional climbing really is when the most historic event in years can't generate much more coverage than a few short video clips, a few Facebook posts and a bit of blogging. I'm surprised how long news of yesterday's pitch took to reach the UK. I expected to read about it in the morning UK time but it took till tea time before TC posted on Facebook ie the next morning Yosemite time. Anyone got links to quicker sources of news than what has so far appeared on UKC? I sort of expected there would be a real time Supertopo thread...
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