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ergophobe
Oct 17, 2003, 3:57 PM
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Yuji Hirayama has been onsighting everything in sight in Yosemite and climbing some other hard routes in incredible style. He onsighted a long 5.13 on Sentinel one day, then the next went and ran up Free Rider on El Cap - that's 50 pitches, 5 hours of hiking, a couple of pitches of 5.13 and many 12s. Now he's working on El Nino (30 pitches, now rated 5.14a apparently because of a broken hold near the top). Yuji has been working for years to onsight a route on El Cap. He fell on the boulder problem start to the fourth ptich (5.13a), worked it for a few minutes and then pulled the rope and sent on the second go. He's disappointed that he won't get the onsight, but he did onsight all other pitches up through pitch five (a 5.13b and a 5.13c). His goal now is to go to the top without another fall. Updates posted at http://www.yujihirayama.com Tom
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organic
Oct 17, 2003, 4:11 PM
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Did anyone else notice that his official site is in french, english and japanese, not seperately, combined? What does he speak Frenglanese?
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ergophobe
Oct 17, 2003, 4:43 PM
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In reply to: Did anyone else notice that his official site is in french, english and japanese, not seperately, combined? What does he speak Frenglanese? Something like that. Yuji speaks Japanese (obviously), French and English, but unfortunately the guy who does his official website seems to speak mostly Japanese. Did you notice that when you click on a French or English link it usually takes you to a Japanese page? I guess someday machine translators will get really good and we'll all be able to write in one language and read in any language. Tom
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