Brilliant! Unbelievable skills! Can't remember ever being so psyched about a repeat ascent.. maybe Moon on Rainshadow haha but this is something else.
I'm a bit puzzled by what's going on with the loop pitch and the pitch after. The end of the loop pitch is at a no hands rest, with the next pitch being the layback, with no belay on the rest.Surely a pitch is only over once you've reached a belay, as opposed to a hands off rest? Why is this deemed to be two separate pitches? What info am I missing here?
It's all great stuff and getting up the thing without completely pathing it is the perfect outcome (assuming it's 'in the bag') for all concerned.
Assuming he's successful, doesn't that constitute 'pathing it'? A multi year project climbed very fast with far less support? Notwithstanding the vision Tommy must've had to persevere year to year...
"I'm a bit puzzled by what's going on with the loop pitch and the pitch after." - Will Hunt
"...while i might be +/- 1 day, [at most +/- 2], as best as i can tell there were: 23 days from when ondra first got on the dawn wall to when he started resting up [on nov 10th] for the push that he just started [on nov 14th] 15 days during which ondra actually worked the climbing on the dawn wall and wasn't either resting, sitting out storms or attempting to onsite the nose...ie. while i'm sure the original quote above wasn't an intentional understatement by a competing sponsor's spokesperson [ ], and i'm sure it was intended genuinely, saying that ondra projected the route for nearly a month, when that near month seems to have consisted of 15 days of actual climbing over the course of 23 days [during which he also attempted an onsite of the nose in a day with his old man] doesn't quite capture the ridiculousness of what ondra is doing here.oh and during that time he also learned how to jumar properly, his partner did his first multi-pitch climb and they set up and stocked a base camp...jayzeus...." - Some guy on Supertopo
"Assuming he's successful, doesn't that constitute 'pathing it'?" - Paul B
He's more sober than Mr. Zak. They are talking about going and do midnight lighting now. I'm sitting at the next table over.