El Capitan

El Capitan is a towering granite monolith located in Yosemite National Park, California. It is renowned in the climbing world for its imposing size and challenging routes, attracting climbers from around the globe. It gained significant notoriety in 2017 when Alex Honnold completed the first free solo (rope-free) ascent of its Freerider route, a feat documented in the film "Free Solo." While El Capitan itself isn't directly mentioned in recent news articles about Honnold's attempt to scale Taipei 101, it serves as a crucial point of reference. The articles highlight Honnold's previous accomplishment of scaling El Capitan without ropes to provide context for his current skyscraper climbing endeavors. El Capitan remains a symbol of extreme climbing and a benchmark against which other challenging climbs are measured.