You just have to climb efficiently and never stop working.” You don’t have to climb quickly to cover this much ground in such little time. So I did a mixture of everything I could to be as quick as possible, whilst also being as safe as possible. Anything goes: free climbing, french free, pulling on gear, stepping on bolts. “Climbing the two walls just means getting to the top. “I wanted to see what soloing two big walls in a day felt like,” Whittaker said in an email to Climbing. Pete Whittaker climbed Half Dome and the Nose, solo, in just 20 hours and 19 minutes on November 9, 2018. Pete Whittaker Climbed Half Dome and the Nose in a Day Magic Line is among the world’s hardest crack climbs. This year he finished the longterm project, placing all the gear on lead, and securing the first redpoint. In December 2016, Lonnie climbed the route with pre-placed gear while his father belayed for the second pinkpoint ascent. For 20 years the route sat unrepeated (and unredpointed).

In December 1996, Ron Kauk freed Magic Line using pre-placed gear and graded it 5.14b, one of the hardest single pitches in Yosemite. The route was first climbed by his father. A post shared by Kauk redpointed Magic Line (5.14c) on November 14, 2018.

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