The Castro Theatre was packed, but neither Honnold nor Caldwell was there. Instead, two other climbers prominently featured in the film , “The Nose Speed Record” — “little-known climbers Brad Gobright and Jim Reynolds,” the promotional material called them — came from Yosemite National Park and charmed the audience. (The climber Cedar Wright has lamented the slow extinction of “dirtbagging” in an age of climbing gyms.) Gobright was part of the furniture in Yosemite National Park, a friend to all the climbers but invisible to the millions of visitors. James Lucas, a Yosemite veteran and an editor for Climbing magazine, recounted seeing Gobright a couple of weeks ago at the park’s Ahwahnee Hotel.

Source: New York Times November 29, 2019 18:51 UTC