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ElCapitan_Yosemite

Two Aim to Climb El Capitan’s Steepest Route, Without Ropes

Like a perpendicular lake of ice and over one half mile from base to tip, El Capitan remains one of the great challenges for all rock climbers. Now two climbers for the first time in history are taking the most vertical of all of the 100 routes up the face and doing it without any ropes other than to catch their fall.