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Aid climbing
- ... that in 1993, Lynn Hill became the first person to free climb The Nose (pictured), one of the most famous aid climbing routes on El Capitan?
- Source: Outside Magazine, PlanetMountain, Gripped Magazine
- Reviewed:
Improved to Good Article status by Aszx5000 (talk).
Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has less than 5 past nominations.
Aszx5000 (talk) 13:45, 23 June 2024 (UTC).
Approving nomination. Article is long enough and promoted to GA 1 day before DYK nom. Article is well-sourced, presentable, and copyvio-free (excluding quoted section). Hook is interesting and well-sourced. Image meets criteria. QPQ not needed. Good to go. Thank you for you nomination Aszx5000! Kimikel (talk) 02:35, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
- Poking my nose in while promoting hooks to prep - this hook seems to not really be about the bolded subject, which is aid climbing. The hook reads as though the bolded article should be Lynn Hill or maybe free climbing. Is there another hook possible that focuses more directly on aid climbing? Premeditated Chaos (talk) 22:21, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Premeditated Chaos:, I understand your point but I offered that hook as the whole affair was one of the biggest moments in modern rock climbing history. Some alternatives are:
- ALT1 ... that Jim Bridwell's 1975 aid climbing route, Sea of Dreams, was the first "if you fall, you die" pitch on El Capitan (pictured - same as above) ?
- ALT2 ... that the aid climbing routes on the Great Trango Tower (pictured) are some of the longest vertical big wall climbs in the world?
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Great trango tower - Source: Great Trango Tower: The Biggest Big Wall, Big-Wall Climbing: What is it, Which Wall is the Biggest, and Why is This Climbing Different?
- Image
- Would any of those work? thanks. Aszx5000 (talk) 13:42, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Premeditated Chaos:, I understand your point but I offered that hook as the whole affair was one of the biggest moments in modern rock climbing history. Some alternatives are:
- Poking my nose in while promoting hooks to prep - this hook seems to not really be about the bolded subject, which is aid climbing. The hook reads as though the bolded article should be Lynn Hill or maybe free climbing. Is there another hook possible that focuses more directly on aid climbing? Premeditated Chaos (talk) 22:21, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
