El Capitan free climb attempt

[meg383]

So my sister, a non-climber, told me she's been following this for a while and has been really inspired by it. I want her to watch Valley Uprising - anyone know where I/she can find it?

[justiner]

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/valleyuprising" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[peter303]

Out of curisity, how do they provistion for three weeks of perishables?
Is someone periodically resupplying them?

[kaiman]

Out of curisity, how do they provistion for three weeks of perishables?
Is someone periodically resupplying them?

Yes, they had a group of people supporting them by bringing in supplies and hauling out waste.

[TeamDino5280]

Out of curisity, how do they provistion for three weeks of perishables?
Is someone periodically resupplying them?

they were getting resupplied, also the temps were cool enough they could keep perishable food.

[TallGrass]

If you want a good laugh...(or to get really angry at stupid people...) http://www.adventure-journal.com/2015/0 ... b-is-dumb/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Somewhat understandable though when considering both common misunderstandings of "free climbing" and that the same site above points to comments as dumb but also conflates it with another article of how for El Cap's Nose "Harding devised a siege tactic based on a series of provisioned 'camps' linked together by fixed ropes, running back to a ground-level supply camp" and then later on "the Dawn Wall. He had spent 27 nights on the extreme face, living mostly in a tented hammock and consuming prodigious quantities of cheap red wine. Later that day he emerged over the top of the cliff to meet a throng of press reporters, well-wishers, and some furious Park Service rangers..." http://www.adventure-journal.com/2013/0 ... n-harding/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

First there was just climbing by yourself with no support nor protection ("Hey, that peak looks cool! I wonder if I can get to the top?"),
then climbing with others (group support),
then climbing with rope for some pro(tection),
then climbing with aid like bolts and pitons (and later ladders, cams, etc.),
then climbing without aid ("free [from aid] climbing"),
then climbing without rope ("free soloing"),
then climbing without anyone else ("solo free soloing"?),
which is what many of the first climbers were doing in the first place in the 1800s and prior (not to mention Native Americans) because there was no gear and no one was crazy enough to join them!
Imagine a 19th century blacksmith: "You want me to put nails sticking out of your boots so you can do what?!"

Jorgeson and Caldwell's feat is impressive, clearly , but you gotta cut commenters not into climbing some slack for not splitting hairs regarding what "aid" (gear, food, cell phone weather data, ...) they were or weren't "free" of, just as you would climbers commenting on some RNA medical feat which seems indistinguishable from DNA to them. What's a tri-cam? What's a tri-cuspid valve? I don't expect people to get something they're not into, and am happy the pair were successful and alive at the end.


Early Mt. Hood climbers

1932 Australia

Eric Shipton, 1938 Everest expedition

... and for a laugh from a climber's view.

Cheers and congrats to Caldwell and Jorgeson!

[painless4u2]

Here's a nice review with some cool interactive views of the wall: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/15/sport ... .html?_r=0

[polar]

3.4 Gigapixel composite image taken at 1 pm on Monday. Very cool!

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015 ... ries-below" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Anyone know of an easy way to save this as one file? It's a bunch of high-res photos put together, and I'd rather not "right-click, save as" a hundred times and then try to piece them all together. I want to mark the route.

[ezabielski]

3.4 Gigapixel composite image taken at 1 pm on Monday. Very cool!

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015 ... ries-below" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Anyone know of an easy way to save this as one file? It's a bunch of high-res photos put together, and I'd rather not "right-click, save as" a hundred times and then try to piece them all together. I want to mark the route.

I tried for you. You can save the entire web page and it will give you about 60 256x256 pictures. However there's no overlap between them so Photosphop's parorama tool wouldn't make any sense of it for me. Using Microsoft ICE would be worth a try but I'm not on a PC to use it.

[polar]

I tried for you. You can save the entire web page and it will give you about 60 256x256 pictures. However there's no overlap between them so Photosphop's parorama tool wouldn't make any sense of it for me. Using Microsoft ICE would be worth a try but I'm not on a PC to use it.

Thanks. 60 files, huh? I thought it would be more than that. Is there any pattern to the file names at all to help stitching them together? I may just have to take a bunch of screen shots and stitch them together. It won't be high-res, but it's easier than trying to put together a jigsaw puzzle with 60 squares.

[polar]

Actually, I just tried it myself. The number of images depends on the zoom level. If you zoom in to right before the picture gets pixelated, it's 521 files. Luckily, the files seem to be in order, so I may try to put them all together in Photoshop...

[ezabielski]

Actually, I just tried it myself. The number of images depends on the zoom level. If you zoom in to right before the picture gets pixelated, it's 521 files. Luckily, the files seem to be in order, so I may try to put them all together in Photoshop...

It seems to be a grid system for the file names. Mine are in the format 4-x-y where x is the horizontal grid location and y is the vertical. That would make it easier but you'd probably want to make a program to do that for 500+ files.

EDIT: Look into Microsoft ICE, I am pretty sure it can handle this. Look at this page: https://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en- ... ?forum=ice" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Under New Structured Panorama:"Use this option if you shot a regular rectangular grid of photos using a robotic panoramic capture device (like the GigaPan devices) or a specially-designed panoramic tripod head. Structured panoramas require that your images can be assigned to the rows or columns of a rectangular grid simply by listing the files in order by name or by date. ICE can take advantage of this regular structure to process very large sets of images (hundreds or thousands of photos), since it doesn't have to look for feature matches between all pairs of images."