A climber who fell while scaling Yosemite’s legendary El Capitan was rescued in a daring high-angle operation on October 20, thanks to a specialized rescue method unique to Yosemite National Park. Yosemite Search and Rescue (YOSAR) teams, assisted by a California Highway Patrol (CHP) helicopter crew, used what’s known as the toss-across rescue technique — a precision maneuver designed in the early 2000s by Yosemite rescuers specifically for stranded climbers on sheer rock faces. The complex meth
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El Capitan is one of Yosemite’s most iconic granite monoliths - a towering vertical wall that rises about 3,000 feet (914 meters) straight up from Yosemite Valley. It’s often described as the ultimate test piece for rock climbers from around the world. What makes El Capitan world-famous is its sheer vertical face, smooth granite, and the scale of its challenge. For decades, it’s been the center of big-wall climbing -the kind where climbers spend days (and nights) on the wall, sleeping on portale
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