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Jake Whisenant, Who Raced Up Yosemite’s El Capitan at Record Speed, Dies in a Fall

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Authorities in California said he died in a climbing accident. He set a record in 2024 for climbing El Capitan’s Lurking Fear route in under three hours.

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