Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson became the first to ascent to the summit of Yosemite National Park’s El Capitan's 3,000-foot (900-meter) sheer granite face in California without climbing tools.
Please enable JavaScript to view this content. Open this photo in gallery: Tommy Caldwell, top, ascends the final pitch of the Dawn Wall on El Capitan, belayed by his climbing partner Kevin Jorgeson, below, in Yosemite National Park. Max Whittaker/The New York Times
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Open this photo in gallery: From left: Becca and Tommy Caldwell, and Jacqui Becker and Kevin Jorgeson embrace after the two men completed a free climb summit of the Dawn Wall of El Capitan. Max Whittaker/The New York Times
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Open this photo in gallery: Shown is El Capitan where two climbers vying to become the first in the world to use only their hands and feet to scale a sheer slab of granite make their way to the summit. Ben Margot/The Associated Press
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Open this photo in gallery: Tommy Caldwell, center, stands with a photographer at a base camp before continuing to climb what has been called the hardest rock climb in the world. Tom Evans/The Associated Press
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Open this photo in gallery: Tommy Caldwell eats dinner in a shelter tethered to the cliff of El Capitan. Kevin Jorgeson/The Associated Press
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Open this photo in gallery: Tommy Caldwell works what is known as pitch 15. Tom Evans/The Associated Press
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Open this photo in gallery: Kevin Jorgeson climbs Pitch 15 Tom Evans/The Associated Press
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Open this photo in gallery: Tommy Caldwell ascends what is known as pitch 10of El Capitan. Tom Evans/The Associated Press
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Open this photo in gallery: Tommy Caldwell stretches during a break in climbing the Dawn Wall on El Capitan. Big Up Productions/The New York Times
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Open this photo in gallery: Tommy Caldwell hauls cable during a break in climbing the Dawn Wall on El Capitan. Big Up Productions/The New York Times
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