15
Aug
Sasha DiGiulian – Women’s Number One Climber in the World – Attempts and completes a V9 at Gear Co-Op in Orange County. She doesn’t get it frist try.
Tag: Honnold
Extreme sports: “Birdmen” who soar off cliffs in wingsuits; a climber who scales sheer mountain faces without climbing ropes; and divers who swim with Great White sharks. They’re all on 60 Minutes Presents: Going to Extremes, hosted by Steve Kroft.
15
Jul
Mountain climber Alex Honnold seems to defy gravity, scaling sheer, steep rock faces with no rope and apparently no fear. Lara Logan reports.
Humble, reticent and strong as a bull, Black Diamond athlete Alex Honnold is a crack climbing machine. Check out this video of Honnold crushing it in world-famous Indian Creek, Utah on everything from 5.13 footless tip-jam campusing to inverted offwidthing.
On June 17th 2012 Alex Honnold and Hans Florine set a new speed record for climbing the Nose of El Capitan – 2900 feet in 2:23.46. For those of us sitting in El Capitan Meadow, this was hardly to be believed. If you are not familiar with El Capitan, you should visit Tom Evans’ site […]