Article: Quite recently, two men broke the record as being the first ever to climb to the tip of Yosemite's granite El Capitan, 3,000 feet above its base, without ropes to catch their fall. If they had slipped and fallen, they would have died. The climb was straight up, on stone as smooth as glass and as a straight as your bedroom wall. It is the hardest rock climb in the world. It took them years to train and weeks to scale. They even slept on the wall! At the end, the two climbers said that their hands would take weeks to recover. Their skin was so worn down, they had used glue to keep the skin on. Click here for pictures.
Thursday, February 5, 2015
Climbing Yosemite Without Ropes
Watch this video, a great follow up to our current event about Israel winning the Innovation Award for the robo printer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH3jMSchI90
Article: Quite recently, two men broke the record as being the first ever to climb to the tip of Yosemite's granite El Capitan, 3,000 feet above its base, without ropes to catch their fall. If they had slipped and fallen, they would have died. The climb was straight up, on stone as smooth as glass and as a straight as your bedroom wall. It is the hardest rock climb in the world. It took them years to train and weeks to scale. They even slept on the wall! At the end, the two climbers said that their hands would take weeks to recover. Their skin was so worn down, they had used glue to keep the skin on. Click here for pictures.
Article: Quite recently, two men broke the record as being the first ever to climb to the tip of Yosemite's granite El Capitan, 3,000 feet above its base, without ropes to catch their fall. If they had slipped and fallen, they would have died. The climb was straight up, on stone as smooth as glass and as a straight as your bedroom wall. It is the hardest rock climb in the world. It took them years to train and weeks to scale. They even slept on the wall! At the end, the two climbers said that their hands would take weeks to recover. Their skin was so worn down, they had used glue to keep the skin on. Click here for pictures.
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