Another El Cap Speed Record!

Yuij Hirayama, who we met previously, and Hans Florine just set another speed record on The Nose of El Capitan. They did the ascent in 2 hours, 37 minutes and 5 seconds, beating their fastest time by more than six minutes.
Check out the full article, photos and video on http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/12/BAC213FROA.DTL
Another phenomenal site: the daily El Cap report. Complete with photos taken with a telescope. I kid you not. http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.html?topic_id=696319
WOW.

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