Hans Florine

Hans Florine is an American rock climber and competition speed climber, born on 18 June 1964, who holds the record for the number of big wall ascents of El Capitan in Yosemite Valley. He has held the speed record on The Nose of El Capitan eight different times, and his last record on the route was set with Alex Honnold in 2012 in a time of 2 hours, 23 minutes and 46 seconds. He has climbed El Capitan more than 175 times and The Nose more than 111 times, and he pioneered many of the methods that speed climbers now use.