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El Capitan Conquered !

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mikey4444 | 08:16 Thu 15th Jan 2015 | News
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Amazing achievement ! I have stood at the bottom of El Capitan on a couple of occasions and it seems to go on for very above. Well done to these two lads !

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-30825589
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Ok several stone ago I was a rock climber and this is a magnificent achievement and worthy of news, not sure what buildersmate expects, this is the holy grail of rock climbs, if its conquering is not worthy of news I don’t know what is. Ok to the ignorant above, free climbing is climbing without aid but with some level of safety, normal aid climbing and most...
09:29 Thu 15th Jan 2015
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This guy was the guvnor in my day, mikey, read his description of the 2indian face2, the first E9: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_dawes
15:18 Thu 15th Jan 2015
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Chris Bonnington was my here TTT. I met him at a Scout function, back in the late 80's, and I could have listened to his stories for hours !
16:00 Thu 15th Jan 2015
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It was nail biting.

Glad I wasn't on the 'Mountain Death Crew' there! The Lakes was fine enough.
16:06 Thu 15th Jan 2015

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