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The Nose. (El Capitan) Warren Harding, Wayne Merry, George Whitmore; 1958 (47 days). The Nose is a big wall climbing route up El Capitan. Once considered impossible to climb, [1] El Capitan is now the standard for big wall climbing. It is recognized in the historic climbing text Fifty Classic Climbs of North America and considered a classic ...
U.S. Highway 1 (US 1) in Florida runs 545 miles (877 km) along the state's east coast from Key West to its crossing of the St. Marys River into Georgia north of Boulogne and south of Folkston. US 1 was designated through Florida when the U.S. Numbered Highway System was established in 1926. With the exception of Monroe County, the highway runs ...
The Overseas Highway is a 113-mile (181.9 km) [1][2] highway carrying U.S. Route 1 (US 1) through the Florida Keys to Key West. Large parts of it were built on the former right-of-way of the Overseas Railroad, the Key West Extension of the Florida East Coast Railway. Completed in 1912, the Overseas Railroad was heavily damaged and partially ...
Speed record holder on The Nose. First ascents. Flex Luthor (2003, 9a+) The Dawn Wall (9a, 2015) Tommy Caldwell (born August 11, 1978) is an American rock climber who has set records in sport climbing, traditional climbing, and in big-wall climbing. Caldwell made the first free ascents of several major routes on El Capitan in Yosemite National ...
U.S. Route 1. U.S. Route 1 or U.S. Highway 1 (US 1) is a major north–south United States Numbered Highway that serves the East Coast of the United States. It runs 2,370 miles (3,810 km) from Key West, Florida, north to Fort Kent, Maine, at the Canadian border, making it the longest north–south road in the United States. [2]
Miami developer David Martin agreed to pay $1.2 billion for the largest piece of undeveloped waterfront in downtown Miami, purchasing the former Miami Herald site from a casino operator that ...
Pre‑1945. Toll. Scenic. ← SR 876. → SR 880. State Road 878 (SR 878), named the Snapper Creek Expressway, is a 2.7-mile (4.3 km) east–west controlled-access toll road south of Miami, Florida. The expressway is named for the nearby Snapper Creek which runs parallel to SR 878. It acts as a spur route of SR 874 (Don Shula Expressway ...
A view of El Capitan from El Capitan Meadow on July 12. A climbing instructor fell to his death on the rock face, according to a report. (Marc Martin/Los Angeles Times)