free blast

Two experienced climbers fell to their deaths on Saturday morning whilst speed climbing on the lower pitches of the Salathé Wall on El Capitan, a section called Freeblast, in Yosemite National Park. Jason Wells, 46, of Boulder, CO and Tim Klein, 42, from Palmdale, CA were simul-climbing through Pitch 9 or 10, 5.7 terrain approaching Mammoth Terraces when the incident occurred at around 8:15 […]