Jim Bridwell

Jim Bridwell

Bridwell in 2003
Personal information
Born	(1944-07-29)July 29, 1944 San Antonio, Texas
Died	February 16, 2018(2018-02-16) (aged 73) Palm Springs, California, U.S.
Climbing career
Type of climber	Big wall climbing Aid climbing Alpine climbing Traditional climbing Rescue climbing
Known for	One-day ascent of The Nose (5.8 C2, 1975) One of the first to climb at grade A5 at Yosemite Inventor of copperhead and beak
First ascents	Pacific Ocean Wall (VI 5.9 A4, 1975) Sea of Dreams (VI 5.9 A5, 1978) Zenyatta Mondatta (VI 5.9 A5, 1981)

Jim Bridwell (July 29, 1944 – February 16, 2018) was an American rock climber and mountaineer, active from 1965 in Yosemite Valley, but later in Patagonia and Alaska. He was noted for pushing the standards of both aid climbing and big wall climbing, and later alpine climbing. He wrote numerous articles on climbing and developed several important pieces of aid climbing equipment. Bridwell was an apprentice to Royal Robbins and Warren Harding,^[1] and later the unofficial leader of the Stonemasters.^[2]