El Capitan: Deaths, Free Solo, and Climbing History
There’s a certain magnetic pull that a 3,000-foot granite wall exerts on the human imagination — especially when that wall is El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. Few places on Earth offer such a dramatic canvas for human ambition, from the first rope-and-piton ascent in 1958 to Alex Honnold’s historic free solo in 2017. Whether … Read more