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Most El Cap Solos?
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Kate Robertson aka Batgirl has soloed six El Cap routes:
She thinks she's climbed 26 different routes that she can remember, but it could be more. Good ol Batgirl has certainly led more hard aid pitches on El Cap than any other woman, including some real nasty stuff on routes like Wyoming Sheep Ranch, Born Under A Bad Sign, Bad Seed and KAOS amongst others. |
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Climbed with Kate in the meadows for about a week, about ten years ago. lost track of her but have heard some magical things about her exploits. Man, what a fun person to climb with and solid. One of the nicest people I have ever been on a rope with, I trust she is well. best regards Bob Crawford Valdez Alpine Club PS, and if she ever gets tired of all this world class climbing there is always that modelling career! Go Kate! |
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2 times Nose 1996 Zodiac 1998 first one hurt second one was fun
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Soloing zodiac was fun, the hauling was super easy even with a junk show in tow. I'm excited to try another in 2025. |
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Not that he’d spray about it himself, but I’m pretty sure Regan is on 15 different El Cap solos and still going strong. |
Olly Tippett wrote: Who is this Regan and is there anywhere I can learn about them and their solos? |
Ricky Harline wrote: He was on it while we were in Zodiac. Seriously proud work |
Ricky Harline wrote: He’s pretty crazy. He was on the straw this fall when I was in Virginia. Not el cap related but his recent solo in Baffin: |
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Good ol Marek.... Lots of stuff here. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/18ft9A5rha/ https://www.facebook.com/share/1BhHpmRcaY/ Regan is quite the purist. He attempted to solo what may be El Cap's hardest route, Nightmare on California street, but backed off on the first pitch when he was unable to make a move, almost certainly because feature that the first ascensionists used had fallen off. "Dude!" I exclaimed. "If the feature is gone, it's okay to drill a rivet for crying out loud!" Nope. "I won't drill on someone else's route," he told me adamantly. He soloed NA Wall instead. |
Peter Zabrok wrote: The end of that story is that he came back a few years later and led the whole pitch without drilling, justifying not adding anything first time around. |
Olly Tippett wrote: Did not know that. How did he get past the blank bit? But he only did the first pitch? |
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I think I remember him saying that the second time he had some new small beaks that were a little more inspiring in the placement he bailed from below the first time. He told me he bailed the second time after he ripped something like 8 heads that he had just replaced in a factor 2 fall onto the belay on pitch 2. He said he realised the route would take a really long time and didn’t want to compromise his ethics by fixing pitches. |
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Not to put the spotlight on you Olly but it seems like you’ve racked up quite a few solos as well. How many have you done? |
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For those interested, here’s a link to some of Regan’s trip reports on ST: http://www.supertopo.com/trsearch.php?s=last_reply_date&o=ASC&v=0&ftr=regan&cur=0 |
