The man who completed the world’s most difficult climb this week, came up with the idea for the feat to move on from the ‘deep pain’ of divorcing his first wife. Dailymail.com can reveal that Tommy Caldwell decided to scale the 3,000ft El Capitan in Yosemite National Park to ‘escape’ from the agony of splitting with Beth Rodden, a fellow climber and his teenage sweetheart. Caldwell did not think he could do it but after meeting the woman who would become his second wife he fell in love again and decided that it ‘just might be possible.' SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO
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Tommy Caldwell became first man to free climb El Capitan, the 3,000ft cliff in Yosemite, this week
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Feat was considered impossible but he and Kevin Jorgeson reached the summit on Wednesday
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Caldwell's wife has revealed he wanted to 'escape' from agonizing split from first wife, Beth Rodden, his teenage sweetheart
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Rebecca Pietsch, his current wife, said he wanted to get over 'sadness' of split and as their relationship grew decided climb 'might just be possible'
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Rodden is now also remarried -  to another climber - and has a baby son
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Caldwell was captured by al-Quaeda during a climb in Asia and held captive for six days
But in reality the driving force was the pain of breaking up with his teenage sweetheart, according to his second wife, photographer @placeholder, 29.