BD athletes Sonnie Trotter and Alex Honnold make one-day ascent of 28-pitch 5.13a in Mexico
Black Diamond athletes Sonnie Trotter and Alex Honnold can climb 5.13. That wasn’t going to be the issue. Climb a 28-pitch 5.13 in Mexico in a day? Now that was going to be a challenge, even for those two crankers. As with any good adventure, however, the true challenges didn’t present themselves until the trip began—just finding the wall turned out to be an epic, friable holds botched their onsight bid and the sketch-op they found at the base would’ve sent most people sprinting back across the border.
But the duo stuck with it and came back with a fantastic tale, which we’ve chosen to highlight in our Fall 2010 Rock Climbing brochure. Why? Because after more than 25 years of making the world’s finest climbing equipment, we still get stoked on the stories of climbers...
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