North America, United States, California—Yosemite, The Nose, El Capitan, First One-Day All-Free Ascent

Publication Year: 1995.

The Nose, El Capitan, First One-Day All-Free Ascent. In September, Lynn Hill one-upped her first free ascent of the Nose on El Capitan done a year ago in four days, climbing the entire route in a 23-hour push (VI, 5.13b). An article on this achievement appears earlier in this Journal.