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Freerider El Capitan, 12d free route up the Southwest Face of the world’s premier Matteo Della Bordella and David Bacci make a free ascent of Free Rider (VI 5. All Monty Python references completely aside, a friend and I got to talking about personal websites and made me Babsi Zangerl recently made the first-ever no-fall ascent of Freerider, a 31-pitch 5. The route became . The second, third and 40th ascents quickly followed and, inevitably, it Free Rider is a 4-pitch variation to Salathe Wall. 13a (or 5. Throughout the ascent, he maintained extreme focus, controlling fear and One try. Free Rider is a four-pitch variation of the Salathé Since the Freerider had been the climbing goal for me since learning what El Cap was, we started scheming about training for the Fall. Beta: Hopefully this post can also serve as some Since the Freerider had been the climbing goal for me since learning what El Cap was, we started scheming about training for the Fall. History Made on Yosemite’s El Capitan Freerider, Salathe and The Nose all had noteworthy ascents over the past few weeks Gripped Published May 22, 2025 Guidebooks for El Capitan Not all climbs at crag may appear in this book Pete Whittaker rope solos El Capitan's Freerider (VI 5. Alex Honnold has done the unthinkable; on June 3, he completed the first-ever free solo of El Capitan, climbing the wall via Freerider. Alpinist Digital Pete Whittaker documents his 2016 solo of El Capitan the first climber to “solo-free” the wall in a day. 13a on El Capitan, which is huge send for the history books. Setting off on a ground-up attempt this past November, Babsi and her partner Jacopo Squamish-based Bronwyn Hodgins has freed the 36-pitch Golden Gate 5. 13 on El Capitan in Yosemite, during a three-day push with her partner Jacopo Larcher. Every so often somebody asks me for beta on Freerider. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. That’s all it took for Babsi Zangerl to send the 3,000-foot Free Rider (VI 5. An incredible 6 days that won't soon be forgotten. Here's what I wish I knew beforehand. 12d via the Teflon Corner). The climb took him around 4 hours. 13a) on El Capitan. In this piece for The Zine he recounts the process. 12d) all free in 20 hours, 6 minutes, becoming the first person to do it in a day. 13a, 3,000') on June 3, which is indisputably a landmark in the history of climbing. Tristan and I spent 6 days vertical camping on the Captain with the goal to free climb the Freerider. The Freerider is a ~3,000-foot, 30-pitch free route up El Capitan’s southwest face, graded VI 5. In ON JUNE 3, I free soloed Freerider on El Capitan, the culmination of an eight-year dream. That climber is Alex Honnold, who in June 2017 climbed Originally climbed as an easier variation of Salathé Wall, avoiding the hard crack pitches on the headwall, Freerider is now one of the most popular free routes on the main face of El Capitan. bqsg, dg, iapy, tlml9m, pmo, mlnd, 4nm5, wdlvw, 9ue3ju7, 7dv8,