Ron Kauk

Ron Kauk is an American rock climber born in 1957 and raised in Redwood City, California, who became closely tied to Camp 4 in Yosemite Valley, where he lived for decades before settling in El Portal. In 1975 he made the first free ascent of the east face of Washington Column with John Long and John Bachar, a route renamed Astroman. In 1978 he put up the boulder problem Midnight Lightning, one of the best known in the world, and climbed the roof crack Separate Reality without camming devices. He later added the rap-bolted Crossroads and Magic Line, one of the hardest routes in Yosemite, and his climbs appeared in films and in stunt work for feature films.