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Archive Home > 2011 > December > 11 > As climbers go text it on the mountain, reaction is divided

As climbers go text it on the mountain, reaction is divided

By Alex Lowther / The Bulletin
December 11, 2011

For more than two weeks last month, climber Tommy Caldwell lived on a nylon ledge hung 1,200 feet up El Capitan, the massive sweep of granite that stands sentinel over California’s Yosemite Valley.

One of the world’s best all-around rock climbers, he slept on the ledge, cooked on the ledge and....

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