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by Zanta 3306 days ago
Agreed, the other replies to this question seem to understate the difficulty of the route. It's a lifetime achievement for almost any climber. I'd ballpark that it's been free climbed by 100-300 people?
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> I'd ballpark that it's been free climbed by 100-300 people?

If you restrict that to people who've done it in a day you're probably down to a couple dozen at most.

gotta be more than that,

100-300 per year maybe, on the lower end.

300 people total means like 10 people per season, I personally know more people who've climbed the nose.

People are referring to free climbing this particular route, Freerider, which is 5.12d/5.13a. It gets done, but it is hard enough there are usually blurbs about it in magazines and in the climbing media when someone completes it without aid.
The nose has only been free climbed by 5 people.

Context is pretty important when talking about aid vs free vs solo

free or aided?

Most people climb el capitan aided.