CLIMBERS’ SUCCESS
El Capitan conquered (y.ZP.A-Reuter—Copyright > YOSEMITE (California), November 19. Two mountain climbers who last week rejected a rescue attempt as they clung to an unsealed sheer rock face, have become the first to conquer the 3400-ft high granite face of the El Capitan peak. Mr Warren Harding, aged 46, and Mr Dean Caldwell, aged 27, reached the summit of the “Fall of Morning Light,” after a 26-day climb to be greeted by park officials and reporters. Below, motor car horns blared out from crowds of tourists waiting in the pineclad valley that is one of Califoria’s main tourist attractions. Last Thursday, a United States Air Force helicopter airlifted a rescue force of 26 men to the top of the peak to haul the men to safety after they had been battered by snow and rain storms and their food had begun to run low. But Mr Caldwell, clinging to a rope and perched on the face, shouted through a bullhorn to the rescue co-ordin-ators 1900 ft below: “A rescue is not warranted, is not wanted, and will not be accepted.”
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32460, 21 November 1970, Page 21
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