Brad Gobright (1988 – November 27, 2019[1]) was an American free solo climber.
Gobright was born in Orange County, California, and began climbing when he was six.[2] He dropped out of college in 2009, working odd jobs during winter and climbing during the rest of the year.[2]
Gobright and Mason Earle made the first free ascent of The Heart Route on El Capitan in Yosemite National Park in 2015.[3] In 2016, he and Scott Bennett climbed three routes—Zodiac, The Nose and Lurking Fear—on El Capitan in 24 hours.[4] He and Jim Reynolds set a speed record of two hours 19 minutes and 44 seconds for The Nose on El Capitan in 2017.[5] With Alex Honnold in June 2019, he made the second free ascent of El Niño on El Capitan in fourteen-and-a-half hours.[6]
On November 27, 2019, Gobright fell about 300 meters to his death on the El Sendero Luminoso climb at El Potrero Chico in northern Mexico.[7][8] The accident happened while rappelling down the face of Sendero Luminoso on Potrero Chico with his partner Aidan Jacobson, after the pair had completed a two-day climb of the face.[8] Jacobson fell a shorter distance and survived with injuries. It was reported that the two men were simul-rappelling—a technique in which two climbers descend opposite strands of an anchored rope, with their bodies acting as counterweights to each other.[9] Gobright was 31 years old.
Gobright was born in Orange County, California, and began climbing when he was six.[2] He dropped out of college in 2009, working odd jobs during winter and climbing during the rest of the year.[2]
Gobright and Mason Earle made the first free ascent of The Heart Route on El Capitan in Yosemite National Park in 2015.[3] In 2016, he and Scott Bennett climbed three routes—Zodiac, The Nose and Lurking Fear—on El Capitan in 24 hours.[4] He and Jim Reynolds set a speed record of two hours 19 minutes and 44 seconds for The Nose on El Capitan in 2017.[5] With Alex Honnold in June 2019, he made the second free ascent of El Niño on El Capitan in fourteen-and-a-half hours.[6]
On November 27, 2019, Gobright fell about 300 meters to his death on the El Sendero Luminoso climb at El Potrero Chico in northern Mexico.[7][8] The accident happened while rappelling down the face of Sendero Luminoso on Potrero Chico with his partner Aidan Jacobson, after the pair had completed a two-day climb of the face.[8] Jacobson fell a shorter distance and survived with injuries. It was reported that the two men were simul-rappelling—a technique in which two climbers descend opposite strands of an anchored rope, with their bodies acting as counterweights to each other.[9] Gobright was 31 years old.
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