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KEVIN JORGENSON AND Tommy Caldwell set a record early this year by being the first to free-climb the 3,000-foot walls of El Capitan, a vertical rock formation in Yosemite National Park in California.
The Dawn Wall face is considered to be one of the hardest climbs in the world and the climbers documented their gruelling 19-day ascent with incredible photos that show just how hard their journey was.
The Dawn Wall – don’t look down
At times the pair had only tiny cracks to hold on to
Here’s Caldwell sanding his raw fingertips on Day nine
Sanding helps to prevent tearing when clinging on to the rock face.
19 days, gotta sleep somewhere
Photographer Corey Rich recounts how the pair would do yoga and push-ups during rest periods and had solar panels to keep equipment charged
Finding an edge
Sleeping is overrated, climb in the dark
Here, Kevin tackles the “Dyno Pitch” which is one of the hardest parts of the climb considering you have to jump six feet and clasp onto an edge to control momentum
Climbers will position their bodies in unexpected ways to scale walls at the best angles, which is why they sometimes refer to their sport as ‘dancing up rocks’
At the top, time to celebrate
What a joke, where r all the Germans , muller , scheinsteiger , gotze even Rodriguez from the World Cup and these players don’t make the reserves
In fairness the only two you would remove are Marcelo and Alves
No Godin aswell. Stupid competition
Surely Aguero should get a look in
Like to see a game between the two teams
A joke ! Paul Mc Shane should get into that team. Defo !!
No bale????
Sanchez,Fabragas,De Gea and German World Cup winners? Joke!
Sanchez has been incredible since he joined arsenal but he was in and out of the team at barca, same with fabregas and I don’t think it’s a joke that a player that won la Liga, played in champions league final got in ahead of de gea
And where the hell is joe Allen?