Mescalito El Capitan part 1/4

Henry & Toto climbing Mescalito on El Capitan, Yosemite, september 2005 - no sound/music due to UMG !

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Sports

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• Mescalito
• El
• Capitan
• Yosemite
• bigwall

[mescalito69]

hi Mark,

you soloed shield ? well, space is a great route, fantastic steep and smooth rock, watch the long traverse into mescalito and the last 2 pitches (backcleaning caused rescue falls here) wish you luck & lots of fun. mescalito is great, but space even more ... perspective is like on the shield with more monkeys around (trip, zenyatta and zodiac) ...

[TheMRrunout]

I think Henry is a German. I met him in Yosemiti Mai 2004. 

[mescalito69]

@TheMRrunout :

you are right ... but nothing wrong with that ?

[Lovegasoline]

Was this in the autumn of 2007? I think I met Henry in the Caf and shared a few conversations...he's older than your standard wall climber, an Austrian or German businessman? If I recall he told me everything has to end and he was going to retire from climbing (or at least climbing walls) and sell his gear after that Yos trip. If he did, one can't ask for finishing on higher note than Mescalito. Nice footage of the thermals.

[mescalito69]

hi @Lovegasoline

I climbed Mescalito in autumn 2005, in autumn 2007 I was also there and video-covered the nose speed record of the Hubers from ground. Yes, I am living in Munich, Germany and Mescalito was my last bigwall (I was 60 by then). Now I am still climbing a little bit in order to keep my body in shape. And the complete bigwall gear was sold in one step in 2007.

I enjoyed Mescalito very much .... a perfect end of a long climbing life.

Keep on buddy - enjoy the big stone ...

[iamborghini1]

how do you do #2

[mescalito69]

@iamborghini1

no way now ... the whole clip was blocked by this f@@#+ UMG (music right watchers). I shall make a new audio track, so clip #2 will be available again ....

[markistheman4u]

Going to do Space this Fall. Sits to the right and shares some pitches higher up with Mescalito. How is it climbing El Cap from that perspective?

[Lovegasoline]

Was this in the autumn of 2007? I think I met Henry in the Caf and had a few interesting conversations...he's an older dude than your standard wall climber, an Austrian or German businessman? If I recall he told me he was going to retire from climbing (or at least climbing walls) and sell his gear after this climb. Nice footage of the thermals.

[BigPerm5000]

@mescalito69 Um no. I simply clicked this link after watching a Tommy Caldwell video. My assumption was that it was going to be a video of Tommy working on the Route Mescalito, which he is trying to free climb. To answer your question I didn't read the description, sorry.