One of the all-time monuments to free climbing, the Salathé is perhaps the most logical big wall up El Capitan. Every pitch has its own story to tell and, as always in Yosemite, has its own name.
El Capitan, one of the most iconic rock formations ... The climb took the pair 19 days of near-continuous effort, ascending pitches with extremely challenging moves on thin cracks and tiny holds.
On 30 August Nicolas Favresse made the first ascent of "Lost in translation" a 400m, 10-pitch free climb (5.12b/c) on the East Face of El Capitan together with 30-year-old Ivo Ninov from Bulgaria.
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