Dawn Wall El Capitan, behind the scenes of the Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson masterpiece
Behind The Scenes Of The Dawn Wall Film that documents the first free ascent of the most difficult big wall climb in the world, completed in January 2015 by Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson.
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Kevin Jorgeson high on the Dawn Wall El Capitan, Yosemite, January 2015.
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The true achievement is obviously the first free ascent Dawn Wall, carried out by Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson at the end of 2014 and the start of 2015. But almost equal to that undertaking are the efforts required to document their attempts and progress, for almost an entire decade, up the smooth 1000 meter El Capitan in Yosemite. Check out this fascinating Behind The Scenes to see how the documentary about the most difficult big wall in the world was filmed.
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