Border Country, the climb and tribute to Jonny Copp and Micah Dash

This is the story of the new route Border Country, the 5.12c route established by Jeremy Collins Dana Drummond and Mikey Schaefer up the NW Face of Middle Cathedral in Yosemite in 2009. Better still, it is moving, artistic tribute to American alpinists Jonny Copp and Micah Dash who disappeared in an avalanche on Mount Edgar in the Sichuan province in China in the summer of 2009.




Jonny Copp and Micah Dash
reproduced from the American Alpine Club
Jonny Copp and Micah Dash were two of America’s leading alpine climbers, adventuring to the farthest corners of the world in search of first ascents in the purest of style. It was on just such a mission in May 2009, in western China's Sichuan province, that Jonny and Micah were killed in an avalanche along with filmmaker Wade Johnson. With Jonny and Micah’s deaths we lost two of the great alpinists, characters, and storytellers the North American climbing world has recently known.