New El Capitan Route

Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell freed a new monster route on El Capitan. The new all-free climb heads up a variation to Early Morning Light and New Dawn to the right of The Nose. The route was a project started by Leo Houlding nearly 20 years ago. He’d freed pitches up to the top of El Cap Tower and called it Passage to Freedom. Kevin Jorgeson had joined Caldwell and Honnold, but he wasn’t on the final free push. Caldwell said the route has “some of the most spectacular climbing I have found.”