Climbing Castleton Tower, Utah
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- Опубліковано 21 лис 2023
- We’d been living in Castle Valley for about a week when I called up Herb, one of the owners and guides from Desert Highlights in Moab, Utah, to see what he thought about me climbing Castleton Tower. Our canyoneering guide, Kai, had planted the seed in my mind when we rappelled through Pool Arch Canyon. I didn’t previously think I could do it. But the more I learned about this tower’s epic history, the more I wanted to try: Alex Honnold free soloed it, Steph Davis base jumped it. Chevy even did a commercial here in 1964, helicoptering an Impala and a model to the top.
Credit to Herb Crimp and Fiona Foster for additional video support!
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Very nice, especially the drone footage. I climbed this 30+ years ago and get sentimental looking at it. For me it was always the big dramatic formations like this, Moses, Devils Tower, the Diamond, Yosemite etc that made the deepest impressions on me. If anyone posts a video about the Nose, that's enough for me, I'll watch it. My partner on Castleton was a woman I was dating who couldn't get up the 10a chimney on the Kor Engels route, so I had to haul her through it. That is the ultimate style, leading the crux and then hauling your girlfriend up.
Awesome work! Herb is, without a doubt, one of the best guides in the country, if not the world!
Hi Nick, welcome to the Castleton club!!! I could see your emotion at the top. I get it, I literally had tears at the same spot. My summit was at age 55, I am still climbing now at 60!! I watched every UA-cam video of Castleton, yours does the best job of showing the journey.
Well done Ed! Tell me more. I'm do to give it a "crack" next year at 60. How long had you been climbing by the age of 55? Any particular advice. Definitely stiffer do to some arthritis at this point. THX
Wow super cool video! Want to do the tour in some weeks. Is a 70m rope long enough to rapell?
So cool ...all those areas "FIShER TOWERS" :)
Awesome route. Herb seems like a really cool dude too.
Did this route last year, it was my first desert tower! Fun route. I wish I had a #5 for that second pitch.
Well done!
Just did this route last week and it was mega
This is sick you gotta head to red rocks in nevada for some more awesome multipitch stuff