Eric The Viking
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Congratulations to Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson for completing the incredible feat of free-climbing El Capitan.
Jorgeson is a Californian, but Caldwell is from Colorado, so I was reading what the latter's local daily paper had to say about it. Near the bottom was this startling paragraph:
"Caldwell, of Estes Park, Colorado, is no stranger to El Cap. He has free-climbed 11 different routes and was the first to make such ascents of the Dihedral Wall and West Buttress. He was the third to free-climb the Nose on El Cap. He also made his way up a challenging El Capitan route in fewer than 24 hours — becoming only the second person to do so — only months after accidentally severing his left index finger with a table saw in 2001."
http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_27318269/climbers-expected-reach-top-yosemite-peak-wednesday
[caution: the above link may contain way too much detail about "life's little necessities" for some]
Who knows what he might have achieved if he'd only invested in a SawStop?
E.
PS: Somebody should appoint a sub-editor at the Denver Post - would anyone ever purposefully sever an index finger???
Jorgeson is a Californian, but Caldwell is from Colorado, so I was reading what the latter's local daily paper had to say about it. Near the bottom was this startling paragraph:
"Caldwell, of Estes Park, Colorado, is no stranger to El Cap. He has free-climbed 11 different routes and was the first to make such ascents of the Dihedral Wall and West Buttress. He was the third to free-climb the Nose on El Cap. He also made his way up a challenging El Capitan route in fewer than 24 hours — becoming only the second person to do so — only months after accidentally severing his left index finger with a table saw in 2001."
http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_27318269/climbers-expected-reach-top-yosemite-peak-wednesday
[caution: the above link may contain way too much detail about "life's little necessities" for some]
Who knows what he might have achieved if he'd only invested in a SawStop?
E.
PS: Somebody should appoint a sub-editor at the Denver Post - would anyone ever purposefully sever an index finger???
