We've never had a record climb the charts so fast".
The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index also neared a record, climbing 7.64 points, or 0.5percentto to 1,514.09.
Shares in Asia rose on the news that Chinese imports had reached a record, climbing 56 percent in December.
On Sunday, Honnold and Hans Florine, a Yosemite speed climber, hope to break another speed record climbing The Nose route up El Capitan.
Ueli Steck, a Swiss mountaineer, has become an Internet sensation because of his record climb up the face of the 13,000-plus-foot Eiger, a classic Alps challenge first climbed in 1938.
But as a relatively junior member of a minority party in Congress, he may have years ahead of him asking questions in committees, burnishing his voting record, climbing up the pecking order, and hoping for a political swing that will put his party in the majority.
Ongoing claims hit another fresh record, climbing to more than 5.7 million in the week ending March 21, from a prior reading of 5.6 million a week earlier.
Whereas climbing ripples are common in the sedimentary record, climbing dunes are rarer.
Instead, an executive from the group's label, Constellation Records, climbed onstage and said that the band intended to devote the $30,000 in prize money to buying musical instruments for Quebec prison inmates.
Within two years, the recording had sold more than 700,000 copies worldwide; the recording climbed to number 6 on the mainstream UK album charts, and while it did not appear on the US Billboard 200, it stayed at the top of the US classical charts for 38 weeks and stayed on for 138 weeks.
