On January 31, Seb Berthe became the 4th climber to send the 32 pitches of the Dawn Wall on El Capitan, the most difficult multi-pitch route on the planet. The Belgian climber had already attempted it in 2022 after coming to the USA by sailboat. True to his convictions, Seb did the same this winter, coming all the way to America by boat to climb this 900-meter-high Yosemite masterpiece. Self proclamed anti-fascist, Seb Berthe wants to use the sporting feat to highlight the fight against the “hateful rhetoric” in Europe and the USA.
The most intense two weeks of his life : that’s how Seb Berthe describes those two weeks in January, half under the snow, spent on a portaledge free-climbing the 32 pitches of the Dawn Wall on El Capitan, with his partner Soline Kentzel. The Dawn Wall is the wall on El Capitan where Tommy Caldwell has