Alex Honnold and Hans Florine set a new speed record of The Nose on El Cap today (Sunday, 17 June) with a time of 2hrs, 23mins, 46secs, which is 13 minutes faster than the previous record by Dean Potter and Sean Leary in 2010.
They attempted the speed ascent a couple weeks ago and missed it by 45 seconds.
This is after Alex (mostly) free solo'd El Cap, Half Dome and Mt Watkins in 18 hours about 2 weeks ago. What a legend.
New speed record on The Nose!
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danglingdingle
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Thanks for the update bickell
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Some great photos of them on the Nose by Tom Evans
http://www.elcapreport.com/content/elcap-report-61712
http://www.elcapreport.com/content/elcap-report-61712
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Me and my buddy Alex two days after he set the record on the Nose 
Oh, and my fiancee Caitlin is in there too I think
Oh, and my fiancee Caitlin is in there too I think
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Cool pic 
Below: some more footage of Hans on the Stovelegs and Alex on the Lynn Hill Traverse:
Below: some more footage of Hans on the Stovelegs and Alex on the Lynn Hill Traverse:
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