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Sat 6th Nov 2010 - Yosemite National Park
Yosemite Valley El Capitan Southwest Face
5.11a A3 The Nose - with Sean Leary Aid 1000m
Speed record in 2h 36m 45s

 
Wed 6th Aug 2008 - Jungfrau Region
Eiger Nordwand
7b+ Deep Blue Sea Trad 320m
 
2008 - Yosemite National Park
Yosemite Valley South Lower Merced Canyon Turtleback Dome The Rostrum North Face
5.12b Alien Trad 240m
First FreeBASE ascent.

 
Thu 13th Jul 2006 - Yosemite National Park
Yosemite Valley El Capitan Miscellaneous
5.7 A5 Reticent Wall - with Ammon McNeely, Ivo Ninov Aid 820m
Speed record in 34h 57m

 
Sat 21st Jan 2006 - Torre Massif
Cerro Torre
6c A1 6c A1 M7 The long run - with Marko Prezelj, Stephen Koch Alpine 2100m
2006 - Yosemite National Park
Yosemite Valley Half Dome South Face
5.12d 5.12d V R Southern Belle - with Leo Houlding Mixed trad 700m, 30
freed in a day, on the second ground-up attempt

 
2006 - Yosemite National Park
Yosemite Valley North Lower Merced Canyon Above The Cookie
5.12a Separate Reality Trad 15m
2006 - Yosemite National Park
Yosemite Valley South Lower Merced Canyon Wawona Tunnel, West End
5.12b A Dog's Roof Unknown
Fri 18th Feb 2005 - Torre Massif
Torre Egger
6+ A2 6+ A2 ED Titanic - with Steph Davis Alpine 1000m
Repeat and first one-day (23 hours) ascent of the mountain.

 
Sat 25th Jan 2003 - Potash Road
Day Canyon Canyon Lower
5.13+ Acromaniac - with Steph Davis Trad 72m
FFA. It was cool to climb the hardest crack I’d ever seen and then finish it with a 100-foot runout.

Source Dave Pegg

 
Tue 10th Sep 2002 - Yosemite National Park
Yosemite Valley El Capitan Southwest Face
5.12d 5.13a VI Freerider - with Jose Pereyra, Scott Stowe Trad 880m
All pitches redpointed

 
Mon 9th Sep 2002 - Yosemite National Park
Yosemite Valley Half Dome Northwest Face
5.12b Regular Northwest Face - with Jose Pereyra, Scott Stowe Aid 670m
All pitches redpointed.

 
2002 - Torre Massif
Cerro Torre
5.11a A2 Compressor Route Alpine
speed-solo in eight and a half hours

AAJ Article

 
2002 - Fitz Roy Massif
Fitz Roy
WI4 Supercanaleta Alpine 1800m
Two hours before dawn I stood before the Supercanaleta (VI 5.10 WI4) and felt naked staring up at its 6,000-foot face. A wave of shivers rose up my body, and I subconsciously committed. Entranced by the fact that any mistake meant death, I sunk my ice tools so aggressively that I scarcely noticed blood soaking my mitts, leaving blotches on the ice. The sight drove me even deeper into a calm, decisive survival state, and I moved as if in a dream, free soloing through thinning ice and beautifully split alpine granite. Just under six and a half hours later, at 10:14 a.m., I awoke on the summit, crying and laughing, screaming “Fitz Roy” over and over.

AAJ Article

 
5.10+ VI Californian Roulette Alpine 2200m
All free-solo, carrying only essential rappel gear (100 meters of 6 mm rope, stoppers, hexes, one ice screw, V-thread, three small Camalots, some sling, four locking ’biners, and eight Neutrinos).

AAJ Article

 
Mon 3rd Dec 2001 - Fitz Roy Massif
Aguja Poincenot
5.11 C1 5.11 C1 WI4 V Potter-Davis - with Stephanie Davis Alpine 400m
2001 - Yosemite National Park
Yosemite Valley El Capitan Southwest Face
5.11a A3 The Nose - with Timmy O'Neill Aid 1000m
Speed record 3h 24m 20s

 
5.11a A3 The Nose - with Timmy O'Neill Aid 1000m
Speed record 3h 59m 35s

 
2001 - Yosemite National Park
Yosemite Valley Ribbon Falls Ribbon Falls Amphitheatre
5.13a 5.10 A3 V Gold Wall (Gold Wall - Silent Line) Aid 300m
2000 - Yosemite National Park
Yosemite Valley South Lower Merced Canyon Turtleback Dome The Rostrum North Face
5.11c The Regular North Face Route Trad 280m
5.11d Blind Faith Unknown
2000 - Yosemite National Park
Yosemite Valley Washington Column East Face
5.11c Astroman Trad
1998 - Yosemite National Park
Yosemite Valley El Capitan West Face
5.7 C2 Lurking Fear - with Jose Pereyra Aid 610m
Speed record in 7h 15min

 
1998 - Yosemite National Park
Yosemite Valley El Capitan Southwest Face
5.9 C2 Salathe Wall - with Jose Pereyra Aid 880m
Speed ascent in 7h 33min

 
1998 - Yosemite National Park
Yosemite Valley El Capitan Southeast Face
5.8 A3 Mescalito - with Jose Pereyra, Russ Mitrovitch Aid 820m
Speed record 23h 28min

 
1998 - Yosemite National Park
Yosemite Valley Half Dome Northwest Face
5.10a C2+ Direct Northwest Face - with Jose Pereyra Aid 610m
Speed record 8h 20min

 
5.12b Regular Northwest Face Aid 670m
Speedrecord 4h 17min

 
1997 - Yosemite National Park
Yosemite Valley Ribbon Falls Ribbon Falls Amphitheatre
5.13a Gold Wall (Gold Wall - Silent Line P1)
1 5.13a 125ft
Aid 38m
1997 - Mill Creek
Wicked Crag
5.12c The Sinister Sport 22m
5.12c Techno Christ Sport 22m, 8

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