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    The Nose is a big wall climbing route up El Capitan. Once considered impossible to climb, El Capitan is now the standard for big wall climbing. It is...
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    El Capitan (Spanish: El Capitán; "the Captain" or "the Chief") is a vertical rock formation in Yosemite National Park, on the north side of Yosemite Valley...
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    days off the existing time. Potter and Sean Leary set a new speed record for climbing up The Nose of El Capitan in November 2010. They ran up the 31-pitch...
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  • El Capitan is a film by filmmaker Fred Padula that captures one of the earliest ascents of The Nose on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley, California. It has...
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    the record for the number of ascents of Yosemite Valley's El Capitan and is known for holding the speed record on The Nose of Yosemite’s El Capitan 8...
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    The Salathé Wall is one of the original big wall climbing routes up El Capitan, a 3,000-foot (900 m) high granite monolith in Yosemite National Park. The...
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    Carter. Separate Reality, an iconic free soloing route in Yosemite The Nose (El Capitan), a 5.14a (8b+) route in Yosemite Salathé Wall, a 5.13 (7c+) route...
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  • the historic southeast face (The Wall of Early Morning Light) of El Capitan in the Yosemite National Park, which had hitherto only been ascended by aid...
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    Stanhope. The Nose (El Capitan), a 5.14a (8b+) route in Yosemite Salathé Wall, a 5.13 (7c+) route in Yosemite Silence, first climb in the world with...
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    he became the first person to free solo a route on El Capitan in Yosemite National Park (via the 2,900-foot route Freerider at 5.13a, the first-ever...
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