Tommy CaldwellPROFILE

Tommy Caldwell

August 11, 1978
Estes Park, CO
• Marmot, La Sportiva, Black Diamond, Bluewater, Powerbar, Julbo

Tommy is a climber through and through. He started climbing at age three and has beneen passionate about the sport ever since. He has established numerous 5.14’s and a 5.15 sport climb, has bouldered V13 and has freed eight routes on El Capitan (the most of anyone), four of which were first ascents and one of which is likely the hardest long free climb in the world. He has climbed on five continents and been on expeditions to Kyrgyzstan, Bolivia and Canada. Many magazines have called him one of the best all around climbers in the world. Tommy is also a contributing editor to Rock and Ice Magazine and has written feature length articles for Rock and Ice, Climbing and Alpinist Magazine. He is on the design board for Marmot and works closely with his other sponsors in developing their products. His sponsors include Marmot, La Sportiva, Black Diamond, Blue Water, and PowerBar.

Burritos, Beth’s cookies

-Scoring Beth-First ascent of Flex Luthor 5.15-Established the hardest big wall free climb in the world (the Dihedral Wall 5.14a-El Capitan, Yosemite)-Free climbed 2 El Cap routes in less than 24 hours.

Little known facts about Tommy: Still uses a table saw occasionally (shh, don’t tell Beth),