Brad Gobright

Brad Gobright was an American rock climber from Orange County, California, born in 1988 and best known for free solo climbing and for fast ascents on El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. He took up climbing at the age of six and left college in 2009 to work seasonal jobs so that he could climb through the rest of the year. In 2015 he and Mason Earle made the first free ascent of The Heart Route on El Capitan, and in 2017 he and Jim Reynolds set a speed record of two hours, 19 minutes and 44 seconds on The Nose. In 2019 he made the second free ascent of El Nino on El Capitan with Alex Honnold. He died on 27 November 2019 after a fall while rappelling from El Sendero Luminoso at El Potrero Chico in Nuevo Leon, Mexico.