Watch Ethan Pringle’s first ascent of Everything is Karate (5.14c/d)—among the hardest granite sport lines in the western United States, located in Pine Creek Canyon near Bishop, California.
The uniqueness of this route—it being an all-natural 5.14+ sport route on granite in California was one of the big reasons I was psyched to get the FA. It’s location, the quality of the rock and the movement, the obviousness of the line and the sustained difficulty all coincided to make it one of the best hard routes I’ve ever done.
This route also recently saw a second ascent by Chris Sharma.
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