RunOut 149: Jordan Cannon and Mark Hudon, live from El Cap

<p>Jordan Cannon is a professional climber, known for his free and speed-climbing feats on El Capitan. Mark Hudon is one of the fathers of big-wall free climbing, best known for making a very early and audacious free attempt of the Salathé Wall in 1979 with Max Jones, nearly a decade before El Cap was officially first free climbed by Todd Skinner and Paul Piana. Jordan and Mark&#8217;s partnership is legendary, best encapsulated in the film &#8220;Free As Can Be,&#8221; which documents Jordan&#8217;s ascent of Freerider in a day and Mark&#8217;s attempt to finally complete a free ascent of El Capitan by the same route, more than four decades later.&nbsp;</p> <p>On today&#8217;s episode, we make podcasting history by recording our episode live from halfway up the side of El Capitan, as Jordan attempts to free the Salathé Wall via the rarely repeated, and arguably official crux pitch—the infamous pitch 19—with Mark supporting him on belay.&nbsp;</p> <p>This is a two-part episode. To hear...