A Colorado Springs father has stirred up a backlash among rock climbers after claiming his 8-year-old son became the youngest person to climb El Capitan, a famous 3,000-foot rock face in Yosemite National Park.
A Colorado Springs father has stirred up a backlash among rock climbers after claiming his 8-year-old son became the youngest person to climb El Capitan, a famous 3,000-foot rock face in California’s Yosemite National Park.
Joe Baker and his son, Sam, shown on a multi-day rope ascent of El Capitan, a famous 3,000-foot rock face in Yosemite National Park. They summited the peak on Oct. 29. “Even before he went up, there was a blog written that said this is a big hoax and lie and a scam,” Joe Baker said in a telephone interview Thursday. “Then it shifted, ‘He said the word climb, so he’s a big liar.’ When I first heard that, I said, ‘I’ll be more careful, I’ll say ‘rope ascend’ every time I can to the media. When I say rope ascend, they don’t even hear that.
Golden’s Charley Mace, who has guided two ascents of Mount Everest and climbed five other 8,000-meter peaks, had more nuanced reactions to the story than many of the outspoken critics commenting in the media and onSam Baker, 8, of Colorado Springs, hangs from a protection point during a rope ascent of El Capitan, a famous 3,000-foot rock face in Yosemite National Park. Sam and his father, Joe summited the peak on Oct. 29.
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