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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 ...
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
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.
John William Middendorf IV (November 18, 1959 – June 21, 2024) was an American big wall climber, mountaineering writer and designer of climbing equipment.. In the 1980s, he climbed the hardest walls of Yosemite, including El Capitan and Half Dome, and in 1992 he climbed the largest rock wall in the world, Great Trango Tower.
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]
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.
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
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 ...