This week’s Friday Flick Pick joins Jorg Verhoeven and Katha Saurwein on their intrepid big wall free climbing journeys to climb the Dihedral Wall (5.14a/8b+) and Final Frontier (5.13b/8a) in Yosemite Valley, CA—a place that many in our community consider the center of the climbing universe.
And in case you aren’t already familiar with Jorg’s other Yosemite feats, in November of 2014, he became the fourth person to ever free climb The Nose on El Capitan.
People are finally understanding that it’s actually really cool to free climb El Cap.
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