“It feels like a dream”: František D’Agostino joins elite group with one-day ascent of El Capitan’s El Niño route

For climbers, El Capitan in California’s Yosemite National Park is what Mount Everest is for mountaineers. This spring, Czech climber František D’Agostino achieved something that only a handful of people have ever done. Together with American climber Samuel Stroh, he free-climbed the legendary El Niño route on El Capitan in a single day. Just a few days later, the pair returned to tackle another demanding route on the wall, Golden Gate, this time in a 26-hour push.

Upon his return from Yosemite, I met with D’Agostino to talk about the experience, the challenges of big-wall climbing and his plans for the future.

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Author: Ruth Fraňková