Kevin Jorgeson

Kevin Jorgeson is an American rock climber born on 7 October 1984 in Santa Rosa, California, known for bouldering, highball climbing and big wall free climbing. With Tommy Caldwell he completed the first free climb of the Dawn Wall on the southeast face of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, a roughly 3,000 foot route with multiple pitches rated 5.14, between 28 December 2014 and 14 January 2015. The climb was the subject of the 2018 documentary The Dawn Wall. He studied civil engineering at the University of California Berkeley, is a cofounder of the youth organization 1Climb and works as a keynote speaker for companies.