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Some great pictures from the climb: http://elcapreport.com/content/elcap-report-6317-special-edi...

Amazing photos that highlight how insane this was. My palms are very sweaty.

I'd love to see a picture of the entire wall, with rectangles showing which tiny part of it we're looking at for each photo, just to get a better feeling for how high the climb is.

Just imagine that the base of El Capitan is about a mile wide.

Not exactly what you asked for, but this is pretty good: http://imgur.com/a/c74MY

I have no knowledge of the sport, but isnt that a rope in pic 7? I guess someone else left it and he didnt use it?

Yeah, the route he climbed is very popular and there's a lot of 'fixed' ropes that teams climbing it will normally leave in place on a short term basis.

Those photos are amazing.

I'm way outside the bubble of climbing and stuff, so I was surprised to see people sleep up there. I don't know how I'd relax enough to fall asleep :)

They are still tied up to the rock while they sleep. :)

Wild pictures, thanks for sharing.

Thanks for the link.

Can't ever remember feeling this tense just looking at pix.

Fantastic. I can't figure out where are these taken from?

Says in the post, "Far end of El Cap meadow"

Right, thanks.

Can you believe the first comment 'Now let's see it done with Total Commitment' dude? My god there are some asshats in this world.

It's not even sensical—like there was anything one could have done to help him in the event of a fall.

If he found himself unable to continue due to injury or fatigue they'd be able to help him down. But yea, extremely dumb comment.

Maybe for like 0.5% of the climb they could do that, if Alex was close and he could somehow get a harness on, they could help him.

If he got injured it's not like he could step left and there is a magical video game ledge that appears, It's all or nothing.

No, but the photos showed that there are several rest points along the way. Presumably he'd try to get to the nearest one despite his injury.

Its a multi pitch route. There are multiple ledges that can be comfortably sat on. Assuming the injury isn't to catastrophic he could make it to one of those points and be rescued.

That being said anyone trying to claim the climb isn't "pure" enough it mental.

I tried looking it up, but couldn't find anything. What does Total Commitment mean in this context?

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