Speed Climbing News

News about new speed climbing records, including technical climbing, cycling, and trail running

Name: Bill Wright

Monday, June 21, 2004

Hubers break their own record on the Zodiac

Alex and Thomas Huber ran up the Zodiac a number of times this June, just like they did last year when they whittled the time down from 4+ hours to 3+ hours to finally 2:38. This year they got it down to the just over two hours and then finally did the route in 1:51. Practice certainly does make for perfection. They have probably practiced a route and gone for the speed record on it more times than anyone else. At least on El Cap. If not the most, they must be pretty close to Hans Florine's pursuit of the Nose record. Hans has gone for the record at least six or seven times, so perhaps he still has that distinction.

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home