Gallery
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Harding's popular 'East Buttress' route on Middle Cathedral Rock goes up just right of the left skyline. The long 'North Buttress', also from 1954, goes up the long central buttress, just to the right of the area where the sun meets the shade.
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Harding's 2800 foot 'Nose Route' of El Capitan ascends a line meandering for roughly 30 rope lengths in the vicinity of where the sun meets the shade, arguably the most famous rock climb in North America.
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In this photograph, three different parties can be seen ascending the lower portion of the Nose route. Two are in the cracks, respectively' to the left and above the dead tree, and another party can be seen in the cracks in the upper right of the photo.
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Harding's 1961 route up the Keeler Needle of Mt. Whitney ascends near the visible skyline of the middle formation, just left of the main East Face of Mt. Whitney.
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Harding spent eighteen days on the intimidating Leaning Tower in 1961, putting up a route up the wildly overhanging West Face of this Yosemite Valley formation with Glen Denny and Al Macdonald.
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In June 1968, Harding climbed a direct route up the 1,400 foot Lost Arrow face near Yosemite Falls with Pat Callis, straight up the steep sunlit portion of the cliff to the tip of the detached pinnacle.
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In 1969, Harding and photographer Galen Rowell climbed the south-west face of Liberty Cap, the feature on the right next to Nevada Falls in Little Yosemite Valley. In 1970, the pair returned for a major epic climbing the long slabby South Face of Yosemite's Half Dome on the left behind; their route following the distinctive arch to its top and then went straight up.
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El Capitan's 'Wall of Early Morning Light': the 1970 Harding/Caldwell route goes up the tallest section of the cliff where it is continuously vertical or overhanging for the entire passage - the general line going straight up just slightly left of the left most grey waterstreak on the rim of El Capitan.
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In 1971, Harding did the first ascent of this steep and shiny formation just east of Half Dome with Steve Bosque and Dave Lomba.
Read more about this topic: Warren Harding (climber)
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