The Mecca of the Bigwall climbing North America is located in the Yosemite Valley, less than 300 kilometers east of San Francisco.There the El Capitan with its 1000 meter granite wall from the Yosemite National Park, one of the most attractive travel destinations on the west coast of the United States, rises vertically.The mountain that dominates the valley has been attracting the climbing elite from all over the world for generations.The 70 different routes lead through "El Cap", as the granite giant is also called.Audio
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All routes are considered very difficult in alpinist circles.The best -known tour leads over the south edge: "The Nose" was first started by Warren Harding, Wayne Merry and George Whitmore in 47 climbing days in 1958, with great use of technical aids such as boring hooks and stepders.
From the end of the 1970s, a kind of countermovement was created on the flanks of the mountain: free climbing, a new philosophy of climbing.Rope and hooks are only allowed to serve the fuse - and no longer as a help in the rock.Without technical help, "The Nose" was first conquered by the climbing Lynn Hill in 1993.
One climbing record chases the next
For decades, the best among the climbers on this mountain with its iron -proof granite walls.Including the brothers Alexander and Thomas Huber from Germany, who set up a speed record.For the Zodiac route, for which three days are normally estimated with bivouac in hammocks, the Huber brothers needed only an hour and 51 minutes in 2004.
The speed record for the south edge is currently two hours and 32 minutes, but using fixed ropes and step ladders.When the "Huberbuam" was on this route in 2006, she filmed the director Pepe Danquart - for the award -winning documentary "Am Limit".
Recently, a three -way class climbed with special luggage over the south edge to the summit.They had two eight kilogram camera bags with them to document the route with 360-degree images.
On the following pages of the photo gallery, we show dizzying moments of increasing the nose on the El Capitan from the interactive app and website of the #Project360 by Mammut - including a 3D animation.
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