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 Tobin Sorenson (b.1955, California), conducted an incredible amount of ascents in the years he devoted to climbing. Following its inception in the early '70s, at Tahquitz and Suicide Rocks (California), where in its first year of climbing made the famous "Valhalla" and later opened "The Edge", he climbed a series of summers in Yosemite .

He was part of the famous group "The stonemasters" with John Long, Rick Accomazzo, Richard Harrison, Rob Muir, Mike Graham, Gib Lewis, Jim Wilson and others (scalar Valhalla was a prerequisite for entering the group, one of the first 5.11 scaled). In Eldorado Canyon, made the first free ascent of "Naked Edge", another myth of the era, to the amazement of those watching him. In 1975 he made his first expedition to Canada, climbing in the Bugaboos, with Rick Accomazzo, the "Beckey-Chouinard" to the South Howser Tower for the first time free. They also "Flamingo Snowpatch and went flying to the Mount Edith Clavell. In the Canadian Rockies in 1978, also made the first winter of the central couloir of Mount Kitchener, with Jack Roberts and the "Callis-Davis on the North Face Robson, with A. Renault. At Longs Peak (Colorado), 75, made the first free "Pervertical Sanctuary", with Bruce Adams.
After 9 months of inactivity due to injury, Tobin traveled to Europe in 1977 with a Christian evangelical group (he had studied theology and was a Christian fanatic) to bring Bibles to the Eastern countries, risking a time when the power go to jail. When his companions returned home, he traveled by hitchhiking to Chamonix, where he held an activity more "powerful" in the history of mountaineering: Rick Accomazzo made the 1st ascent of the Direct to the NE of the Dru Couloir, real bogeyman in those years, in 2days and a half, with Gordon Smith of the 1st Sorenson-Smith couloir on the west face of the Aiguille du Plan, with Todd Eastman's 1st couloir of the face of the Col du Requin (late September), again with Gordon Smith on October the 2nd ascent of the route to the Walter Desmaison of large Jorasses, in 2 ½ days (and free). Later he went to Switzerland carried out with Alex Mc Intyre, in 5 days and in alpine style first, the "Harlin" in the North Face of Eiger (4th total). Finally, in December, did the North Face of Matterhorn alone and in 9 hours. Some of these climbs even today remain rare authentic myths and repeat, for example the Jorasses Desmaison to continue filling pages in climbing magazines. Sorenson took them out all in a single season, following a philosophy of always doing the most difficult and as clean as possible.
In 1978 Tobin was in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru, and opened a new route alone in the NE face of North Huandoy travels to Australia in 1979, opening new routes and first in free Reliz Mount Arapiles and Queensland, and New Zealand, first climbed the Central Pillar of Mt.Cook Sheila Face with John Allen, and two new routes with Nick Craddock at Mt Hicks.
On October 5, 1980 Tobin was a solo climb the North Face of Mt Alberta, when the upper wall of the wall fell, he missed his self-insurance. The "angel" who had survived many falls during their learning was unsuccessful on this occasion.
His friend John Long said of him: "The rally had never seen someone like Tobin and probably never see him again," You can say it was the world's most versatile climber in the late 70s. Always climbed as if time was too short for him and poured all the anxiety, worry and nerves of one year in every way. " In his obituary in Mountain concluded: "If a life is measured by its intensity or its contribution to others, the 25-year-Tobin is a rich and complete."