BREAKING DAWN: 19 days on one of the toughest wall climbs in the world
GRASSROOTS climbers are uncomfortable with saying ‘the hardest climb in the world’. But most would agree that this month’s first, free ascent of the Dawn Wall on El Capitan, Yosemite, ranks as one of the toughest.
Americans Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson spent 19 days on the famous, 3,000-foot wall in California. As professional climbers, the men are no strangers to elite-level performance. But the climb drained them.
