10-year-old girl becomes youngest to climb Yosemite’s El Capitan
A 10-year-old girl has become the youngest person to climb the iconic “Nose route” of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park.
Selah Schneiter made the 3,000-foot climb up the granite rock over about five days in early June, Fox News reports. She was reportedly joined by her father, who works in Colorado as a climbing guide, and one of his friends.
Selah has been dreaming of making the summit since she was 6 or 7 years old, the Fresno Bee reports. She reportedly donned her first rock-climbing harness shortly after learning to walk.
{mosads}“El Cap just feels like part of our family story,” her dad told the Bee.
El Capitan is considered to be one of the world’s more challenging mountain climbs. “I don’t think there was necessarily a hardest time,” Selah told the Bee. “It was all hard. There were a few times where I would be sore and tired and sunburned, and that would kind of get me going a little bonkers. But overall, it was just great to be up there away from the world.”
Selah’s advice for other climbers: “You have to put your mind to it.”
“It doesn’t take necessarily a super special person to do something like that,” she told the Bee. “You have to think about it.”
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