La Sportiva – Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgenson free a 32-pitch route on El Captain!

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Climbing word is not often under the spotlight like the free-ride world or the BMX world and the other extreme sports. But sometimes it happens something really special that event President Barack Obama and The White House can’t ignore it!

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It happened yesterday 14th January 2015 in the Yosemite Valley in California on one of the most important mountain for the climbing community: El Captain. La Sportiva atlethe Tommy Caldwell with TC Pro climbing shoe (where TC stays fot Tommy’s name letters) and Kevin Jorgenson, free one of the hardest long route on the planet: “Dawn Wall”: an impressive 32 pitch route with at least 7 pitches of 8a!

Ana amazing adventure of 19 days and with a genesis of 7 years to higlight the climbing world like never before.
La sportiva would like to congrats Tommy and Kevin for this great, reliable result.

INFO: La Sportiva