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What’s your Dawn Wall? Oh, wait… 36. Angie Payne becomes first woman to climb V13, August 2010.
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Plus 10 more points for doing it in jeans. Plus 10 points for self-arresting in a cave while sliding down a vertical ice and rock wall going 60 miles an hour.
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38. Bollywood embraces ice climbing with the movie Shivaay, October 2016. With not enough food, gear, water, clothing, or rope, the ascent of this 7,400-foot 5.11 R/X route was done in what Cordes called “disaster style.” See also: deadline week at the offices of Climbing magazine. 39. Josh Wharton and Kelly Cordes nab first ascent of Azeem Ridge on Great Trango Tower in Pakistan, July 2004. Proving that all it takes is three Himalayan expeditions, a stroke, a few avalanches, and hundreds of thousands of sponsorship dollars to make mountaineering history.
40. Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin, and Renan Ozturk successfully climb the Shark’s Fin route on Meru, October 2011.
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41. Steph Davis free solos the Diamond on Colorado’s Longs Peak four times, July-September 2007.ĭuring her first solo of the Casual Route (5.10-)-she eventually did the Casual Route again, as well as Pervertical Sanctuary (5.10+) twice-Davis reportedly ended up on the route after taking a wrong turn on a rest day hike. Imagine what Tommy Caldwell could have accomplished if he applied his motivation and dedication to something that actually mattered, like cancer research. 42. Tommy Caldwell and Joe Mills free the Dunn-Westbay, a 5.14a route on the Diamond on Longs Peak, August 2013. Is this an impressive climbing achievement worthy of this list? Absolutely not.
Todd Skinner, Jeff Bechtel, Mike Lilygren, and Bobby Model, all from Wyoming, spent 60 days on the wall to establish this 33-pitch climb. Where did he find so many pebblewrestlers willing to sacrifice perfect sending temps in Bishop to go watch him climb some huge slab route? 48. The world’s first grade VII free climb, Cowboy Direct, is established on Nameless Tower in Pakistan, 1995.
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Related: La Dura Complete-The Full Story Of The Hardest Rock Climb In The WorldĤ9. Alex Honnold climbs Too Big to Flail, a 55-foot V10 in Bishop, California, January 2012.įar more impressive is the stack of 34 pads he gathered for the ascent.While it might’ve been the hardest rock climb in the world at the time, you know what they say: Second place is the first loser. He sent it after Ondra for the second ascent. 50. Chris Sharma sends La Dura Dura (5.15c), March 2013. Here’s my subjective, snarky, and not very factual ranking of the greatest climbing achievements by Americans (and one Canadian) in the last 25 years. Then I realized that between global alpine, trad, sport, bouldering, big wall, ice, and competition achievements, there were way too many first this’s and biggest that’s to make a truly comprehensive list. With so many notable ascents recently, I thought it would be appropriate to take a look back at climbing history and compile the biggest achievements in our sport. El Cap photo by daveynin/Flickr CC BY 2.0
The Peanut Gallery is her monthly column. She often gets worked up about things she reads on the Internet and then falls asleep mumbling to herself about it. Julie “Peanut” Ellison is the Editor at Large for Climbing. Get full access to Outside Learn, our online education hub featuring in-depth fitness, nutrition, and adventure courses and more than 2,000 instructional videos when you sign up for Outside+
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