About: Almost an alpine quality due to the long approach and north-facing direction. The most popular route is the Regular northwest face, 24 pitches long. First ”real” bigwall climb in Yosemite and a huge classic…
FA: Royal Robbins – Mike Sherrick & Jerry Gallwas 1957. Current bigwall rating: VI 5.9 C1
(Pierre Olsson with various partners during many years, most notably with Erica Kutcher in 6h 15min)