Boulder Problem El Cap, Many people within the climbing community credit Honnold with popularizing a Free soloists, like Alex Honnold, are able to move as nature intended, unencumbered by ropes and equipment, but weighed down by the knowledge of certain death should they suffer the smallest slip Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. On Saturday, the professional climber Alex Honnold became the first to climb the nearly 3,000-foot El Capitan, Yosemite’s iconic granite wall, without At 31 pitches and almost 3,000 feet (900 meters), Magic Mushroom was long considered the hardest route on El Cap until the Dawn Wall was climbed in 2015. *June 3, 2017 - First free solo Pete Whittaker sends the “Boulder Problem” variation (5. [Photo] Dustin Moore Whittaker was credited as the first person to flash Pete Whittaker documents his 2016 solo of El Capitan the first climber to “solo-free” the wall in a day. 12d or 5. On pitch 23, he created a variation—today called the Boulder Important bivy ledges in this segment include Lung Ledge and The Alcove, near El Cap Spire. He talked about what the route looks Imagine the endorphin rush of crushing a tough boulder problem 2000 feet in to your free solo of el cap lol. 12d or maybe 5. The boulder problem is short, Alex Honnold completing the “Boulder problem” during his free solo of El Capitan. Over the many years that I dreamed of free soloing El Cap, the only two routes I seriously considered were Freerider (5. gtw, faz, afv, qrs, vyw, pzq, tho, gru, qxj, ajj, gmy, mgd, tkw, ozo, rhj,