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Lurking Fear on El Cap Freed After 25 Years - Gripped Magazine

Summary by Gripped Magazine
Pietro Vidi has made the second free ascent of Lurking Fear, a 19-pitch 5.13c first freed by Tommy Caldwell and Beth Rodden in 2000. Lurking Fear on El Cap’s southwest face was first climbed in 1976 by Dave Bircheff, Phil Bircheff and Jim Pettigrew. They freed what they could but relied on a lot of aid. The name Lurking Fear, according to Pettigrew, was inspired by an H.P. Lovecraft poem. In 1995, Steve Schneider, Alan Lester and Jeff Schoen fre…
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Gripped Magazine broke the news in on Friday, May 16, 2025.
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