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Selah, 10, becomes the youngest to ascend 3,000-foot ‘Nose’



COLORADO: Stunning many, Selah Schneiter, 10, has become the youngest person to climb the deadly 3,000-foot “Nose” at Yosemite’s El Capitan in California’s Yosemite National Park.

It is a mountain which was deemed impossible to scale until the 1950s. She, however, completed her historic ascent after five days of climbing.

She is just 4-feet two inches and said she wanted to have pizza after climbing the rock adding that she wanted to climb it when she was a little girl.

The towering stone was first ascended by Warren Harding, and it took 45 days for him. Several people have died in attempts in several years since then.

Publish Date : 19 June 2019 08:07 AM

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