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An accomplishment 3,000 feet and 55 years in the making.

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After 19 days, 3,000 feet, and more blood and skin than they’d likely care to think about, Tommy Caldwell and his climbing partner Kevin Jorgeson summited El Capitan’s foreboding Dawn Wall in Yosemite National Park.

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