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Separate Reality is a 20 metre long climbing route in Yosemite National Park in California, USA. The famous[1][2] route is well known for its exposed crux and six metre long crack in its roof. The route's access is about 200 metres above the Merced River, but is better reached by abseiling from above. The name is from the 1971 novel A Separate Reality: Further Conversations with Don Juan from Carlos Castaneda.[3]
The route was first climbed by Ron Kauk in 1978 and given a difficulty grade of 5.12a (today 5.11d) (french 7a/7b).
The first to free solo-climb this route was German Wolfgang Güllich in 1986, then photographed by Austrian Heinz Zak, who 19 years later soloed the route himself in 2005.[4]
The route excites climbers not so much because of its technical difficulty, but due to its overhanging exposed nature,[4] and the resultant demands on the human psyche.
In the summer of 2006 the American Dean Potter was the third climber to send this route free solo.[5]
Notes
- ^ Nejc Cesen climbs one of the most well-known routes in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. 2005.
- ^ Stuck On Yosemite
- ^ Den Fels im Griff - Freiklettern from the ZDF programme Der Sportspiegel (Video on YouTube: Wolfgang Güllich Parte2)
- ^ a b Heinz Zak solos Yosemite's Separate Reality. 09/06/2005. "completely out of my reach, not physically, but mentally"
- ^ Dean Potter free solo on Separate Reality (5.11d/7a) and Dog's Roof (5.12b/7b). 2006-08-19.
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