horizontally along the rock formation. they struggled inch by inch up the steep granite wall reaching the peak just before sunset this evening. jay gray, nbc news. >> even president obama congratulated the climbers on twitter and instagram tonight. he said you remind us that anything is possible. >>> apparently it wasn't good enou for doug who said they had a lot of help. >> 19 days come on guys. >> sleeping hanging on the side of the granite wall. >> i have no idea how they do that. that is absolutely amazing. >> yeah. >> kind of cold out there tonight, dog. >> it's really not as cold as it has been but it feels a lot colder. humidity is in the air and we still have the cloud cover and the clouds will actually help temperatures stay above where they have been over the last couple of days. take a look outside, a very cold night. we're down to 33 degrees right now. we were up to 34 in the last hour. that's the high today. winds out of the northwest at 3 miles per hour. the clouds are not allowing temperatures to cool all that much. 32 right now in fredericksburg. now, tonight, the radar is showing nothing out there. we're not