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To: unclewest who wrote (16978)	9/23/2001 11:45:56 PM
From: Uncle Frank	Respond to of 22706

>> you didn't say. which did you climb...half dome or el capitan? There were plenty of climbers, but we weren't among them. This is prime season for the professional climbers who flock from around the world to climb our magnificent rocks; they were plastered all over the face of those two granite Goliaths. Interesting trivia - the oldest person to climb Cap was 82 when he did it 2 years ago. It took him over a week of living on the wall before he made the peak. The fastest climb was a team of 3 who did it in about 4 hours, and then followed up by climbing Half Dome the same day. We attended a lecture by Mark Wellman, the rock climber who took a 100 foot fall, and then a few years later, did the equivalent of 7000 pull ups to climb El Cap by arm strength alone. My daughter, Nancy, and I hiked from the Vernal Falls trail head, which, 8 miles and 4900 feet later ends at the top of Half Dome, but we only went as far as the Vernal Falls bridge, which was 1 mile out and 400 feet up. I was really impressed with my daughter's walking skills; no way I could keep up with her. uf