Climbing Yosemite's El Capitan with Google Street View

For decades, El Capitan has been the most iconic rock climbing wall in the United States, if not the world, John Branch reports on nytimes.com.

From the first ascent by Warren Harding and others in 1958 to the Dawn Wall climb by Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson in January, 3,000-foot El Capitan has been the vertical domain of climbing pioneers, Branch wrote.

Everyone else mostly watches from below.

Starting yesterday, Google Maps, increasingly taking its Street View technology off-road, is offering a different vantage point. In the same way that Street View allows web users to lurch down a city block one click at a time, pausing to look in all directions, viewers can now pull themselves up El Capitan, Branch reported.

For more, including a good illustration of a route to El Capitan’s top: http://kenallensforum.blogspot.com/