Here I am explaining it to some friends.
Posted on 06/20/2019 5:46:05 PM PDT by Hojczyk
10-year-old girl becomes youngest person to climb El CapitanVideo 10-year-old girl becomes youngest person to climb El Capitan Selah Schneiter talks about reaching the summit of the famous Yosemite rock face.
The 10-year-old girl who just became the youngest person to conquer one of the world’s most challenging mountain climbs said Thursday, “I did it to have fun.”
Selah Schneiter of Colorado appeared on “Shepard Smith Reporting” on Thursday to talk about her climb on the “Nose Route” of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. She made the bold ascent over five days in early June.
10-YEAR-OLD GIRL BECOMES YOUNGEST PERSON TO CLIMB EL CAPITAN
“I feel like everybody is thinking it's really crazy that I did it because I'm the youngest person, but I did it to have fun,” she told Smith.
El Capitan, a vertical rock formation in California's Sierra Nevada mountains, is about 3,000 feet from base to summit along its tallest face.
For perspective, imagine climbing something twice the height of the World Trade Center. Rock climbers consider it one for their ultimate challenges.
Selah made it to the top with the help of her father, a climbing guide and a family friend.
Her mother, Joy, who also appeared on “Shepard Smith Reporting,” said her daughter “practiced a ton.” Still she had some worries, given that Selah weighs a bit less than 60 pounds.
Her parents are both rock climbers, though, and they said she has been climbing since she was a baby.
Smith reported that Selah considers herself “just a normal girl.”
How does she feel about her achievement? “Exciting and really overwhelming."
She added that reaching the top “was really emotional.”
“It was really something that I have been thinking about for a long time," she added.
Said Joy: “She's a precocious little kid.”
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Let’s just keep humoring the little tykes
Here I am explaining it to some friends.
Are you Art Vandelay?
***10-YEAR-OLD GIRL BECOMES YOUNGEST PERSON TO CLIMB EL CAPITAN ***
Do we really want young kids doing dangerous stunts just to prove they can?
Remember the young girl who, a few years ago, became famous as the youngest airplane pilot in the US, till she crashed and burned.
She wasn’t leading, so not terribly dangerous, but certainly a great accomplishment.
WOW! HOORAY Selah Schneiter!
I'd say that is an impressive climb.
I viewed El Capitan from a distance a few years ago. My first thought was that anyone who wanted to climb that ain’t right in the head!
I can’t even watch video of someone free climbing El Capitan. May be fun for some, but a giant “nope” for me! (Would have been a nope at 10, too!)
Yawn. Let’s see her “Free Solo”. Have you seen the movie “Free Solo”? This is insanity!!
At least one of the parents paid the appropriate price.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Dubroff
I encourage Freepers to see the movie about the guy who climbed El Capitan with no safety ropes.
Really Fascinating.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/films/free-solo/
Like teaching your children to catch knives in their teeth, if you ask me... child abuse. This girl is going to grow up now, if she's so lucky, and there is a good chance she's going to die in a fall. Way to go, "parents."
> Are you Art Vandelay? <
I’m in the import-export business. I import potato chips. And really long matches. And I export diapers. Draw your own conclusions.
When camping in Yosemite Valley, I remember seeing lights of climbers on the face of El Capitan at night. They slept in hammocks hanging from pitots driven into cracks in the rock.
Dad is kind of a dipstick, but we all do it to some extent.
My cousin is a climber and has taken his six year old daughter on some small climbs with him. Set up a rope in the back yard about 30 ft. up to a tree limb. Showed me pics of her climbing it like a little monkey. The muscles in her back are amazing. Great kid.
The father should be arrested for child endangerment.
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