First Ascent

Posted on: December 1, 2007


The great Fritz Wiessner himself told Jim McCarthy not to do it. So what did the young climber do? What any budding vulgarian would: he ignored the advice, climbed Wiessner's Crack—and then put up his own route on the untouched west face of Devils Tower.

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