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\nSwiss climber Ueli Steck – \u00a0in Us for\u00a0two months \u00a0hollydays – free-climbed Golden Gate (5.13b, 41 pitches) and fell on only a single pitch, onsighting the rest of the climb.
\nTogether with his wife Nicole, belaying,\u00a0\u00a0he spent 4 days on the wall, leading every pitch,\u00a0and slipped on wet rock on\u00a0a relatively easy pitch, the 5.11c crack off the top of El Cap Spire. Golden Gate is 41 pitches, one of \u00a08a, 2 of \u00a07c+\u00a0and five between\u00a07b\u00a0and 7c.
\n"For me it was a great dream climbing El Cap free. It was stupid to have this fall on an easy pitch, but on the other hand I am so happy that I could climb the route in this style\u2014ground up and not trying the pitches several times or checking out the sequences before. It was a very, very strong experience for me.\u201d said Ueli.\u00a0
\nNo one until now on-sighted Golden Gate, not even the local specialist \u00a0Tommy Caldwell that in 2007 climbed it in 20 hours with\u00a02 falls. Ueli did astonishing speed records on the north faces\u00a0 of the Eiger, Grandes Jorasses, and Matterhorn and he is as well a very talented free climber.
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