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Connor Herson: Just Getting Started

Climbing Gold by Duct Tape Then Beer

Apr 17, 202657:07Sports & Recreation

Connor Herson couldn’t legally drive when he freed the Nose in 2018, competently navigating up his way up a route only Lynn Hill and Tommy Caldwell had freed. The climbing world wondered where this prodigy would take tra...

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