SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Two climbers vying to become the first in the world to use only their hands and feet to scale a sheer slab of granite in California’s Yosemite National Park are closing in on the top of the 3,000-foot peak.
If all goes as planned, 30-year-old Kevin Jorgeson of Santa Rosa, California, and 36-year-old Tommy Caldwell of Estes Park, Colorado, should reach the summit of El Capitan early Wednesday afternoon.
The world has been watching the pair’s grueling half-mile journey up the peak’s Dawn Wall route. But spokeswoman Jess Clayton says the men won’t give media interviews at the top. They plan to discuss the climb Thursday.
They started Dec. 27 and have been “free-climbing,” a technique that shuns climbing aids other than harnesses and ropes to prevent deadly falls.
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