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[29] [30] On June 12, 2019, 10-year-old Selah Schneiter became the then-youngest person to scale El Capitan, via The Nose route. [31] [32] On November 4, 2020, American Emily Harrington became the fourth woman to free climb El Capitan in a single day and the fourth person (and first woman) to have done so via the route Golden Gate. [33]
Freerider is a popular route up El Capitan, ... her seventh free climb on El Cap before scaling the Golden Gate route soon after, adds to Zangerl’s already impressive climbing resume. This ...
Central Pacific ferry El Capitan was the largest ferry on San Francisco Bay when built in 1868. [5] Ferry Berkeley (served 1898–1958) at the San Diego Maritime Museum. The first railroad ferries on San Francisco Bay were established by the San Francisco and Oakland Railroad and the San Francisco and Alameda Railroad (SF&A), which were taken over by the Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR) in 1870 ...
2019, Golden Gate (VI 5.13), Muir Wall via The Shaft, El Nino via Pineapple Express, El Capitan, Yosemite, US – Brad Gobright has sent Golden Gate VI 5.13a in a 16.5 hour push for his third free route on El Cap this season in a day. Earlier this spring, Gobright sent Muir Wall via The Shaft and El Nino via Pineapple Express. [18]
2000 – Golden Gate (5.13a, VI, 41-pitches), El Capitan, first free ascent; a combination of the Salathé Wall and Heart Route. [ 31 ] [ 32 ] 2001 – Bellavista [ it ] 8c (5.14b) (10-pitches, 500-metres), on the Cima Ovest , Dolomites , Italy, first free ascent through the huge roof; first-ever big wall route at 8c; [ 10 ] Huber later ...
Emily Harrington climbing Golden Gate (5.13 VI) on El Capitan. Emily Harrington (born August 17, 1986) is an American professional rock climber and mountaineer. [1] She is a five-time US National Champion in sport lead climbing, runner-up in the 2005 IFSC Climbing World Championships, and has made the first female free ascents of several 5.14 (8c/+) routes.
In 2019, 10-year-old Selah Schneiter and her father spent four and a half days climbing El Capitan’s Nose route, which runs up the center of the rock’s face and has attracted the best climbers ...
The Los Angeles Limited and Golden State Limited retained their 1928 schedules and so dropped their extra fares. In 1931 the Overland Limited dropped its extra fare and combined with the 63-hour train on its route; the Chief was the only extra fare trans-continental train thereafter, until the streamliners.