el capitan

     

"El Cap" is what climbers call this over 3,000-foot wall of rock in Yosemite

Trivia about el capitan

  • Climbers are challenged by the sheer face of this granite monolith rising 3,593 ft. above Yosemite Valley
  • In 1896 Sousa wrote an operetta set in Peru during Spanish occupation that featured this title march