Dawn Wall Project : Day 2


2 Jan, 2015
Don't forget Day 4: https://vimeo.com/115807807
4 Jan, 2015
4 Jan, 2015
Since then it's been reported on Facebook that Tommy sent the second of the three 9a pitches and Kevin narrowly failed to sent it. I wonder what they'll do now? Will Tommy wait until Kevin sends and possibly jeopardise finishing the route? Tommy was planning to miss-out the next 9a dyno pitch by instead doing the "loop pitch" at around 8b+ to circumvent it and so really, his hard hard climbing is behind him and the light at the end of the tunnel must be getting quite bright. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tommy-Caldwell/180070212030430?fref=nf
4 Jan, 2015
As a media event this is done a bit like the first attempts of famous mountains like the N Face of the Eiger. The news is rolled out each day and gives a quasi-live reporting on what has happened. Unfortunately the video footage is not as good or spectacular as it could have been given the fact this is Yosemite. Having a remote controlled drone camera up there with them would've been the way to go and with a sponsor like adidas I'd have thought that would be within their budget of this project. Oh well, next time maybe.
4 Jan, 2015
I expect there is better video to come. But even so, I agree, it shows how "on a shoestring" professional climbing really is when the most historic event in years can't generate much more coverage than a few short video clips, a few Facebook posts and a bit of blogging. I'm surprised how long news of yesterday's pitch took to reach the UK. I expected to read about it in the morning UK time but it took till tea time before TC posted on Facebook ie the next morning Yosemite time. Anyone got links to quicker sources of news than what has so far appeared on UKC? I sort of expected there would be a real time Supertopo thread...
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