The Mighty El Capitan

THE MIGHTY EL CAPITAN by Lynn Bauer is a sunset view of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, as mist rolls in over the Merced River. Autumn's golden... more

by Lynn Bauer

Title

The Mighty El Capitan

Artist

Lynn Bauer

Medium

Photograph - Photography/digital Art

Description

THE MIGHTY EL CAPITAN by Lynn Bauer is a sunset view of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, as mist rolls in over the Merced River. Autumn's golden grasses line the shore of the Merced, and large pine trees sit across the water in front of the giant granite mountain.
This image of El Capitan was taken just a couple of weeks before two climbers, Kevin Jorgeson, of Santa Rosa, Calif., and Tommy Caldwell, of Colorado, became the first two men to successfully "free climb" the sheer face of El Capitan's Dawn Wall. This is such a massive and sheer granite face, it is hard to imagine what it must have taken to make that 19-day climb!
Yosemite National Park is filled with stunning scenery at every turn...and, El Capitan is one of it's many iconic landmarks. Yosemite is located in the High Sierra Nevada Mountain Range of California and is part of the Sierra National Forest.

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January 16th, 2015