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Another 8-Year-Old Boy Ascends El Capitan, Following in His Brother’s Footsteps

On October 24, Sylvan Evermore and his father reached the top of the 3,000-foot-tall vertical granite cliff using a method ...

What It’s Like to Free Climb El Capitan in One Day

Will Moss just became the fourth person ever to free climb The Nose in a day. Moss, 20, says Katy Perry and athletic tape ...

He fell 40 feet on Yosemite's El Capitan and dangled unconscious from a rope. A high-risk rescue began

After a rock climber shattered his arm and lost consciousness in a fall midway up El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, ...

Another 8-year-old just went up Yosemite's El Capitan. Here's the backstory

Two 8-year-olds have ascended Yosemite's El Capitan in recent years in trips arranged by their father, who has a larger goal ...
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Yosemite Search and Rescue and California Highway Patrol Helicopters Dramatic Rescue of Injured Climber on El Capitan (Video)

Video Description: A Yosemite Search and Rescue helicopter hovers close to the vertical granite face of El Capitan as a ...

Climber saved from tiny ledge on Yosemite’s El Capitan. See ‘incredible’ rescue

A climber was hoisted from a tiny ledge on El Capitan in Yosemite after a daring helicopter insertion and precision ...

Injured climber rescued from ledge after fall on Yosemite’s El Capitan

A man was rescued after falling from a ledge while climbing the face of Yosemite’s El Capitan Monday afternoon. According to rescuers, he was about ...