The largest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa is 829m tall and would be dwarfed by this giant. Wall prominence: 1,250m Thor Peak has the world’s greatest vertical drop of 1,250m.
Alex Honnald and Hans Florine currently hold the speed climbing record, taking on El Capitan in 2 hours 23 minutes and 44 seconds on June 17 2012. Since their awesome first ascent hundreds of new routes have been put up on the rock face and in contrast to their slow but successful attempt speed climbing is now a popular way of taking on the giant. Harding and his gang climbed El Cap up a route called ‘The Nose’. Originally thought to be unclimbable it was first scaled in 1958 by Warren Harding, Wayne Merry and George Whitmore, their ascent took them a total 47 days to complete! Probably the most inspiring, tempting and most recognisable of the big walls around the world, El Capitan (named from a rough Spanish translation of its Native American name To-to-kon-oo-lah), rises a massive 900m from its base. That’s nearly three times as high as the Eiffel Tower. Wall prominence: 900m The Southwest face of El Capitan rises a massive 900m from its base in Yosemite Valley. If we’ve missed out your favourite, or if you’ve got something you’d like to add, let us know in the comments section. Throughout the world there are tons of awesome big walls that are just begging to be climbed, and we’ve rounded up the six most impressive, inspiring and downright beautiful ones and compiled them into the list below.
It’s that urge to climb that has led to great mountaineers conquering rock faces that had previously been thought of as unclimbable. It’s hard to not want to climb these walls despite the danger and challenge they present. There’s no feeling quite like standing at the bottom of a huge rock wall, tracing the lines to the top and feeling truly insignificant as you revel in the magnificence and natural beauty that rises from the ground in front of you.
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