5 June 2009

Honnold frees the Salathe wall in 8 hours

Alex Honnold has done the Salathe IAD, 8a in Yosemite. "Fell off last move of headwall linking pitches, then redpointed from the mid anchor. Bummer. Simuled the route w/ Stanley in 8 hours." Alex is unique as he climbs; up to 8c on bolts, 8b on gritstone/trad, boulders 7C and plus he is doing crazy bigwall stuff. A true hero.
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