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The Salathé Wall is one of the original big wall climbing routes up El Capitan, a 3,000-foot (900 m) high granite monolith in Yosemite National Park. The Salathé Wall was named by Yvon Chouinard in honor of John Salathé , a pioneer of rock climbing in Yosemite.
The Great Trango Tower's east face and east buttress form the world's longest big wall climbs, [8] and was the birthplace of high-altitude big wall climbing; [5] the towers, including the adjoining Nameless Tower, are considered formidable and dangerous due to their extreme altitude, [4] and include famous big wall routes such as Eternal Flame ...
The Dawn Wall is a 2017 American-Austrian documentary film directed by Josh Lowell and Peter Mortimer about Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson's successful attempt to create the first-ever big wall free climbing route—which they christened The Dawn Wall—on the historic southeast face (The Wall of Early Morning Light) of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, which had hitherto only been ...
The climbers spent a continuous 32 days on the wall, with climbing difficulty up to A5. In the end, the climbers placed only 31 bolts, with 27 clumped on a completely blank wall section. [7] In September 2004, Vidal and partner Eloi Callado established a new, 890m route, Mai Blau (A3+) on Neverseen Tower in the Indian Himalaya. [8]
Vysočany (German: Wissotschan) is a part of Prague in the Prague 9 administrative district (partly in Prague 3), Czech Republic.It lays in the eastern part of Prague around the valley with Rokytka river.History
www.vysocany.sk Vysočany ( Hungarian : Viszocsány ) is a village and municipality in Bánovce nad Bebravou District in the Trenčín Region of north-western Slovakia . History
www.obec-vysocany.cz: Vysočany is a municipality and village in Znojmo District in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 90 inhabitants.
The wall saw its first winter ascent in March 1974, when Wojciech Kurtyka from Poland spent 13 days repeating the 1967 French Route. In 1979, the wall was free climbed for the first time by local climber Hans Christian Doseth and Ragnhild Amundsen. Today, there are many routes on the wall, ranging in length and difficulty. [3]