Ammon McNeely

Ammon McNeely

Ammon McNeely, 2003
Personal information
Nationality American
Born June 3, 1970
Climbing career
Type of climber Big wall climbing
Known for Speed climbing El Capitan
Updated on 11 April 2013.

Ammon McNeely (born June 3, 1970) is an American rock climber, who holds the most Speed Climbing World Records and First One Day Ascents on El Capitan in Yosemite. Other interests are: BASE jumping, wingsuiting, skydiving, surfing, skateboarding, trail running, mountain biking and snowboarding.

Ammon has been the conductor of many ascents on El Capitan, most of them in a day (under 24 hrs): Plastic Surgery Disaster, Wall of the Early Morning Light, Atlantic Ocean Wall, and most recent climbing one of the hardest routes on El Capitan, The Reticent Wall along with Dean Potter & Ivo Ninov in 34 hours and 57 minutes, shaving the existing time by more than five days.

He is recognized as having climbed El Capitan by the most number of different routes - 75 times via 61 routes.

McNeely is the first (Nate Brown is the only other one) to have climbed all three routes on The Streaked Wall in Zion National Park, ascending all three routes with a First One Day Ascent.

Ammon is also a slackliner and pioneered many highlines throughout the US and has opened up new BASE jumps, as well.

In October of 2013, Ammon nearly lost his foot in a BASE accident in Moab that he described as: "I am a big liar and faked the whole injury at Moab. Over 1 million you tube hits on that video because the masses are stupid and want to see gore. What a bunch of morons." [1][2]

Some of his other El Capitan speed climbing accomplishments include:

References


  1. ↑ Staff, Climbing. "Ammon McNeely survives BASE jumping accident". Climbing. Retrieved 2013-10-30.
  2. ↑ "Ammon McNeely :: SuperTopo Rock Climbing Discussion Topic - page 4". Supertopo.com. Retrieved 2013-10-30.

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