{"id":132526,"date":"2017-06-04T15:51:56","date_gmt":"2017-06-04T22:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=132526"},"modified":"2017-06-04T15:51:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T22:51:56","slug":"climber-without-rope-conquers-yosemites-el-capitan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=132526","title":{"rendered":"Climber, without rope, conquers Yosemite\u2019s El Capitan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-words=\"31\">It took roughly four hours Saturday for rock climber Alex Honnold to make an ascent so dangerous no one has ever tried it before: scaling Yosemite\u2019s El Capitan with no rope.<\/p>\n<p data-words=\"31\">Some called it a suicide mission. El Capitan is 3,000 feet of vertical granite, jutting straight to the sky. Many of its cracks are so small, they fit only one finger.<\/p>\n<p data-words=\"62\">\u201cI mean, there are BASE-jumping stunts that require you to be \u2018on\u2019 for 20 seconds,\u201d said Chris McNamara, a Lake Tahoe climber who spent many years diving and parachuting off giant rocks. \u201cAnd then there\u2019s\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/m.sfgate.com\/bayarea\/article\/Climber-makes-chilling-unroped-ascent-of-11194319.php?cmpid=email-mobile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pictures and More<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-words=\"62\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took roughly four hours Saturday for rock climber Alex Honnold to make an ascent so dangerous no one has ever tried it before: scaling Yosemite\u2019s El Capitan with no rope. Some called it a suicide mission. El Capitan is 3,000 feet of vertical granite, jutting straight to the sky. Many of its cracks are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rock-climbing-mountain-climbing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132527,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132526\/revisions\/132527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}