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Re:Alex Honnold Scales El Capitan Without Ropes, and the Cli... by msteffen on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @11:49PM (#14503606)
When you're free soloing, you climb much faster and with much less equipment.

With safety equipment, climbing El Cap takes 2-4 days, and you have to pull up several bags of equipment behind you with pulleys.

Without any safety equipment (i.e. free soloing) climbing El Cap takes a few hours and you just bring your body and some chalk.

Plus it's just a cool thing to do (at least IMO). It's like, the dude is so good at climbing he doesn't need ropes.

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Re:Alex Honnold Scales El Capitan Without Ropes, and the Cli... by jjeaff on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @06:08AM (#14504947)
I find it funny that you mention that climbing el cap free soloing, "just takes a few hours" as if it wasn't just recently free soloed for the very first time in known history by one of the most skilled climbers of all time.

It takes hannold 4 hours. It will likely never be tried successfully by anyone else.

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