Posted in April 12, 2010 ¬ 4:15 PMh.Admin
Royal Robbins will be in Yosemite at Curry Village on April 17th from 3:00 to 4:30 for an autograph signing of his book.
Royal Robbins is the Yosemite climber and has climbed every climb of import within the walls of Yosemite.
Enclosed below are two reviews of the book. If you are interested in Yosemite then you [...]
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Posted in July 27, 2009 ¬ 5:13 PMh.Admin
With each step on the trail this weekend, Theresa Ho is making giant strides to overcome a nightmare trek at Yosemite National Park. She was crushed by a boulder and broke her back, several ribs and right fibula, punctured her right lung and sustained scrapes, tears and crush wounds.
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Posted in July 22, 2009 ¬ 5:25 PMh.Admin
Corbett had carried his friend, 29-year-old Mark Wellman, to the base of El Capitan. But Wellman would have to pull his own weight — three quarters of a mile — practically straight up.
It had been seven years since Mark Wellman made his last climb. He was on his way down when he slipped on some gravel and plummeted into a crevasse.
Wellman dangled at 13,000 feet, wedged in a crack with a broken back, for 30 hours. “I remember I couldn’t wait until the sun came up to warm me up,” he recalls.
His legs were paralyzed, but his spirit was not. Wellman bounced back and took a job as a ranger in Yosemite National Park. He began to dream of climbing again.
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