After having assured and supported Soline Kentzel in her ascent of Golden Gate, the climber Sébastien Berthe wanted to add a new cross to his list of achievements on El Capitan. And it was El Nino, the route of the Huber brothers, that he repeated in record time. “Climbing El Capitan free on sight, or at least trying to, has always been one of my dreams“, explains Sébastien Berthe. In any case, the Belgian climber achieved a fantastic performance.
It is the bigwall standard of the climbing world. El Capitan and its thousand metres of granite (3000 feet), sometimes slippery. After supporting Soline Kentzel during her 9 days in Golden Gate , Sébastien Berthe launched his own project, his dream of climbing El Cap’ free and in sight. He climbed “A muerte” he says, very close to the total on sight – he