Cheyne Lempe and Ethan Pringle climb The Constant Gardner in Yosemite

The first ascent video of The Constant Gardner in Yosemite valley, USA, established ground-up in September 2014 by Cheyne Lempe and Ethan Pringle.
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Cheyne Lempe and Ethan Pringle making the first ascent of The Constant Gardner in Yosemite in September 2014
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Last autumn American climbers Cheyne Lempe and Ethan Pringle spent two days making the first ascent of a new route on the Higher Cathedral Rock in Yosemite valley, a face which - strangely - had only one previous route, put up in 1960 by Yvon Chouinard, Chuck Pratt and Bob Kamps and a variation added 8 years later by Pratt and Dennis Hennek.

Lempe and Pringle climbed the route ground-up, in a single push with one bivy at the top of pitch 2, and placed just one hand-drilled bolt. The Constant Gardner has been graded 5.11+R and A3 and just like Lost in translation on El Capitan (Nicolas Favresse and Ivo Ninov, 2006), is one of the few big wall valley routes in recent times to have been climbed ground-up in a single push.


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