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  2. El Capitan - Wikipedia

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    El Capitan is composed almost entirely of a pale, coarse-grained granite approximately 100 MYA (million years old). In addition to El Capitan, this granite forms most of the rock features of the western portions of Yosemite Valley. A separate intrusion of igneous rock, the Taft Granite, forms the uppermost portions of the cliff face.

  3. The Nose (El Capitan) - Wikipedia

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    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 around the world. [2] El Capitan has two main faces, the Southwest (on the left when ...

  4. Ammon McNeely - Wikipedia

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    Ammon McNeely (June 3, 1970 – February 18, 2023) was an American rock climber who specialized in big wall climbing and aid climbing, and who set many speed climbing records and made the first "one-day ascent" for many climbing routes on El Capitan in Yosemite. His other interests included BASE jumping and wingsuiting.

  5. How Austrian climber Babsi Zangerl completed a ‘hard to ...

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    On a vertical rockface like El Capitan, the soaring slab of granite in California’s Yosemite National Park, perfection is an elusive, almost impossible goal for professional climbers.. It can ...

  6. An 8-year-old is climbing El Capitan in Yosemite National ...

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    In 2019, 10-year-old Selah Schneiter and her father spent four and a half days climbing El Capitan’s Nose route, which runs up the center of the rock’s face and has attracted the best climbers ...

  7. Warren Harding (climber) - Wikipedia

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    Warren Harding (June 18, 1924 – February 27, 2002) was one of the most accomplished and influential American big wall climbers and aid climbers of the 1950s to 1970s. He was the leader of the first team to climb El Capitan, Yosemite Valley, in 1958.

  8. Selah Schneiter is the youngest person in history to climb ...

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    At just 10 years old, Selah Schneiter is the youngest person to climb the dangerously steep El Capitan boulder in Yosemite.

  9. Tommy Caldwell - Wikipedia

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    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 Park.

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