El Sendero Luminoso is the name of a rock climb at El Potrero Chico,

Nuevo León Nuevo León () is a state in the northeast region of Mexico. The state was named after the New Kingdom of León, an administrative territory from the Viceroyalty of New Spain, itself was named after the historic Spanish Kingdom of León. With a ...

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. A big wall sport-route, El Sendero Luminoso rises over 1500 ft (~450 m) up the front side of

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. It is one of the harder long routes in the area with 11 of its 15 pitches having climbing grades of . The route was established by Jeff Jackson, Kurt Smith, and Pete Peacock and is graded 5.12+ V (15 pitches). On January 15, 2014,

Alex Honnold Alexander Honnold (born August 17, 1985) is an American rock climber best known for his Free solo climbing, free solo ascents of Big wall climbing, big walls. Honnold rose to prominence in June 2017 when he became the first person to free solo El ...

became the first person to free-solo the route, taking just over three hours. On November 27, 2019, the American rock climber Brad Gobright fell approximately 300 meters to his death while descending from the route with his climbing partner, Aidan Jacobson who fell between 20 and 30 meters and survived.

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