Ammon McNeely

Ammon McNeely was an American rock climber who specialized in big wall climbing and aid climbing, born on 3 June 1970 and died on 18 February 2023. He set many speed climbing records and made the first one-day ascent of many routes on El Capitan in Yosemite, including some of the hardest aid routes there such as The Reticent Wall, which he climbed with Dean Potter and Ivo Ninov in under 35 hours. He was considered to have completed one of the broadest ranges of aid and free routes on El Capitan, up to 75 ascents by 61 routes, and was the first with Nate Brown to climb all three routes on The Streaked Wall in Zion National Park. He also did BASE jumping and wingsuiting, and he was a slackliner who pioneered many highlines in the United States.