John Middendorf

John Middendorf (born 1959 in New York City) is a big wall rock climber, who achieved world-wide recognition in the rock climbing world when he climbed the East Face of Great Trango Tower in Pakistan with Xaver Bongard in 1992. As a lightweight, two man team, they were the first to climb the 5000 foot vertical rock face of Great Trango Tower to the summit and make it down alive. [cite web |url=http://classic.mountainzone.com/climbing/trango/ |title=On the Big Stones |work=Mountain Zone |accessdate=2008-07-01 ] (The eastern face of Great Trango Tower was previously climbed by a team of Norwegians, who unfortunately died on the descent). [cite web |url=http://www.climbing.com/news/hotflashes/norwegians_repeat_historic_trango_route/ |title=Norwegians Repeat Historic Trango Route |work=Climbing |publisher=Skram Media |accessdate=2008-07-01 ]

The climb is considered a very difficult big wall, and required 15 days and nights to climb and three days to descend, using portaledges designed and constructed by Middendorf in his shop (A5 Adventures, Inc.)

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External links

* [http://www.bigwalls.net/ www.bigwalls.net]