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Fitzroy Traverse with Honnold and CaldwellVideo

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Tommy and Alex on the Fitzroy Traverse  © Tommy and Alex Collection
Tommy and Alex on the Fitzroy Traverse
© Tommy and Alex Collection

This week's Friday Nighter is from  Patagonia and features Tommy Caldwell (is he about to finish the Dawn Wall Project - we think so!) and Alex Honnold climbing one of the world's best alpine ridges....

"Long considered impossible, coveted by many and attempted by a few, the Fitz Traverse has fueled the imaginations of climbers in Patagonia for decades. Tracing the iconic skyline of Cerro Fitz Roy and its six satellite peaks, it spans four miles and 13,000 feet across snow and ice-covered rock, with epic route finding and endless rapelling. Seizing their chance during a rare extended weather window, Tommy Caldwell and Alex Honnold went big. The pair completed the first ascent in a five-day push during February 2014."


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Alex Honnold is a professional rock climber whose audacious free-solo ascents of America’s biggest cliffs have made him one of the most recognised and followed climbers in the world. A gifted but hard-working...

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11 Jan, 2015
Makes the Dawn Wall climb look like a walk in the park.
11 Jan, 2015
Ok, it looks ace, but why do we have to wait almost a year before we can watch the whole thing?
11 Jan, 2015
Now that looks like a good trip. Love the way they've got the wrong gear. Sounds like one of my trips up tryfan
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