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El Capitan: Historic Feats and Radical Routes Hardcover - 2000

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An unforgettable faceall 3,000 granite feet of it. El Capitan towers above California's Yosemite Valley, a sheer rock wall, seemingly insurmountable, and by far the most coveted rock climb on earth. El Capitan traces the mountain's unique history and recounts the vertical adventures had therefrom Warren Harding's 45-day siege in 1958 up through the recent speed climbs of under 5 hours. Critically acclaimed author Daniel Duane articulates how this massive wall can totally consume a person. Duane profiles the legends who have devoted themselves to El Capitan, including Royal Robbins, Warren Harding, and John Middendorf. Accompanied by 36 moody duotones, El Capitan captures the essence of big wall climbing.

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The first words out of the mouth of Royal Robbins, the grand old man of Yosemite climbing, were about how El Captain has become a kind of lodestone, "because of its plain rock architecture-it's so beautiful in itself, it's so noble, that to have climbed it, to have found your way up it, is to have become more intimate with it and to have become more part of that grandeur, that granite, that strength if you will."

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  • Title El Capitan: Historic Feats and Radical Routes
  • Author Daniel Duane
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Printing
  • Pages 144
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA
  • Date September 2000
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780811824842 / 0811824845
  • Weight 1.76 lbs (0.80 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.06 x 7.95 x 0.84 in (25.55 x 20.19 x 2.13 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00029459
  • Dewey Decimal Code 796.522

About the author

Daniel Duane is a surfer, naturalist, and critically acclaimed author of Caught Inside: A Surfer's Year on the California Coast. He has written for Esquire, the New York Times Magazine, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Men's Journal, Outside Magazine, and the Village Voice, among others. He lives in San Francisco.
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