The Nose of El Capitan

Ready dude, let's do this. Yeah. Oh, that was a flash. All right, I'm racked up double-back Shit are you okay? There goes our bus. A little exhaust in the face there? Damn, do you have a cigarette? Waking up, want some coffee man? That's a lot of water According to this, we're at the top man. Oh wait That's the bear that was eating our stuff We have a problem, this is not good So it's raining and we're just chilling out under the Portaledge, under the Portaledge Come on up to Sickle, dude Can you put me in man? Little beautiful crack system So, I don't know if you all can see this, but uh, this is the view from just under Dalt Tower Here's the anchor And myself Just waiting for Chris to jug up. I just groveled through four inch off width with one number four It's quite Quite a headache and a little run out. It ran out about 60 feet. So Here's a, here's the crack I just went up And we're just under Dalt Tower. Should be there tonight That'll be confusing. Yeah That could be potentially dangerous. So we got here about 1040 last night pretty beat we had to bust out the Stormfly last night on the ledge because It was gonna start raining Better to be safe than soak So we just had a little shower here and it Completely soaked me There's now a waterfall Coming off El Cap over there. It's a savage It's raining those quarters two gassy men Wow That was pretty intense What do you think? I'm glad it's letting up. That was scary Oh No, oh I have to lead a chimney pitch right in this bulge right here That is not good because there's a lot of water there and it's slick dry So for better weather Good morning. About to jump on the sharp end, lead a Texas flake It's a chimney Yo This is called a rope stretcher Did you get it? Yeah Well, I just led through the King Swing really freaking wild Now I'm sitting here on Eagle Ledge waiting for Chris to clean Bloody part of the fun Here's Eagle Ledge They stay that way show you guys how to place a cam hook Hook in there like that Then you can wait it cool whoop The thing is you got to keep weight on it. Otherwise, it'll fall out Made to bend a little You don't want brittle metal. Oh Shit I feel like Ray Jardine now Broke the rock. I'll have to destroy this footage Here is Chris the cleaning machine Rocking the Jumars and the nut tool so as you can see the Lightning storm we sat through a couple days ago Like it started a little fire over there It's actually a pretty sizable fire considering it's been going for a couple days now Pretty much see most of the route day five on the wall All right, James, let's see him let's see the hands Yeah I've got some of my own too Again not nearly like that. I guess my right hand is the worst one Don't want to say the blood helps push your fingers into the crack I'm testing its durability Scott and Scott doing the nose in the day Scott squared. Yeah Everything's all good to go. And this was like the most fun pitch ever. It was so choice Pretty nice The great Yet Chris is jammed in a crack So our pulley broke So we've been hauling with a couple carabiners Right now we're gonna try to put mayonnaise Try and make it work in the changing corners pitch long journey There's Chris swinging around yeah Beautiful crack Oh Second the last pitch for him and then I get the top out pitch Oh We are on the last pitch West away Chris is coming up cleaning Somewhere down there There is El Capitan from my view map is called the wild stance Because you have this amazing amazing view and we just got to go up this little crack right there and Catch about 50 bolts to the summit Double-check hands a little bloody We'll survive See you on top So we did the nose we did it This is just so different than have to something about it. It's just it's just totally different We did the nose Lovely half down Check Check hey Yeah El Capitan Definitely kind of appropriate, huh? Yeah There's an ant He has many friends on our pizza We're gonna eat it anyways Hey James What's going on? Oh? my god, I Was sound asleep