"Up-and-down-and-again, we'd like doing that all day" :-)
The old children's riddle about a Swing gets new interpretation :-).

On August, 5, Renan Ozturk and Jake Whitaker linked about 2450 vertical meters of free climbing around Mt. Whitney (4418 m), the highest point in the contiguous United States located in the Southern Sierra Nevada, California, USA, during an 18-hour car-to-car outing.

After the four-mile, 1200-vertical-meter approach, the two-man team started up Day Needle (4320m), where they followed a partially unclimbed line previously attempted solo by Whitaker the line concluded with an overhanging 5.11a hand crack just below the summit.

Next they downclimbed the East Face (5.7) of Mt. Whitney, and then climbed back up the Harding Route (V 5.10c) on Keeler Needle (4340m).

Going back over Whitney again, they descended and then finished on Western Front (5.10c) on Mt. Russell (4294m). Ozturk and Whitaker climbed with a 30-meter-length of a 9.1mm rope and simoclimbed most of the technical terrain.

Ozturk characterized his partner as the dark horse of the High Sierra, Tuolumne, and Yosemite Valley.
The two guys had never climbed together before their big day in the Sierra.

Foto: www.fs.fed.us