And many of the world’s elite rock climbers-including the one considered the world’s best, Alex Honnold-are Americans.
When Caldwell and Jorgeson made it to the top with their bloodied, bandaged, and superglued fingers, it was such a quintessential moment of American optimism that even President Obama sent his congratulations, tweeting, “You remind us that anything is possible.”Ĭould anyone other than Americans have scaled this incredibly difficult granite face with so scant a safety net? Of course-but it was Americans who made the seemingly impossible climb. In recognition of their arduous and potentially fatal quest, one of them even called this climb his Moby-Dick, after that white whale that taunted-and destroyed-Captain Ahab. The pair had trained for more than five years and encountered serious injuries on previous attempts.
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