'Now it’s starting to get very cold but Sam can’t tell because he’s sawing logs in his mummy bag cuddled up next to me,' Joe wrote. Just hours into his climb, Sam posted a picture of himself hanging from ropes off the steep cliffside, writing: 'Underestimate me! Cause I need a good laugh.'īy Wednesday morning, Sam, Joe, and their friend Maison DesChamp were about a third of the way up, where they stopped near Mammoth Ledge to enjoy 'mac and cheese and watched the first half of the Lion King,' his father said on his Facebook page. 'It will still be a lifechanging adventure that we will forever be talking about.' 'It's OKif we don't make it,' Joe said in the video he posted to his Facebook. His mother, Ann, also said they 'wouldn't just push him to do it just because he has to be eight when he does it.' To see the warrior spirit coming out of him, he wants it, he's interested in his own self-mastery' Joe is also using climbing to help teach Sam how to be a man and said he is 'proud' to see 'this identity emerge that he owns, that's his. Sam, however, was enticed by the idea of enjoying lasagna from a hammock on the cliffside. The practically straight-up cliffside is 3,000 feet of granite, where climbers are 'hanging by their fingertips or their anchors,' Sam's dad, Joe, said.ĭespite the young boy's bravery and excitement, critics slammed his father for allowing Sam to perform such a 'dangerous' stunt at a location that sees more than 100 accidents per year.Įl Capitan is largely regarded as a stunt only experienced climbers should risk, but Sam seems confident that his tri-weekly training will pay off for this difficult climb. The climb started Tuesday and concluded with the team meeting Sam's mother, Ann, who hiked up the back of the mountain, at the top. His mother had previously told CNN that Sam 'seems really happy to be up there and spirits are high.'
Sam has been training for the cliffside journey since he was six, according to his parents and was in a climbing harness since before he could walkĮarlier on Friday, the father-son duo hung a sign off the cliffside that read, 'I love you, Mom, almost there.'
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