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\"If you look at that wall, it looks like glass,\" said Big Up Productions filmmaker Josh Lowell, who has been filming their climbs for the past six years. \"It's really difficult to imagine how anyone could free-climb it.\"
They've been eating their packed hard-boiled eggs and breakfast sandwiches with salmon and getting caffeine boosts from their flasks of coffee.
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The adventurers have been able to stay in touch with their loved ones, and perfect strangers, using a cellphone and even hosted a tweet chat Monday, though they're avoiding calls because they want to stay focused on the climb.
\"Pretty exciting, um, but it's far from over yet,\" Jorgeson said in a video released from the sixth day of the climb.
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