Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jesse McGahey, who leads Yosemite Search and Rescue and is seen in a yellow jacket and helmet, was deposited via helicopter on El ...

The fall came three days into the trip, as the climber was clawing his way up the sheer face of El Capitan, 2,300 feet above the floor of Yosemite Valley. Ascending a vertical crack in a high corner ...