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Saturday 2 December 2023 Dublin: 2°C

# El Capitan

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No wonder nobody ever free-climbed this cliff before, these photos are terrifying
Yep, that perilously positioned tent is where you’re supposed to try to sleep.
In photos: The journey of the two men who completed the hardest climb in the world
They’ve been “free-climbing” to the 3,000-foot summit for the past 18 days.