Photograph by Gabriel Moulin 

 LL CAPITAN : YO'SEMITE NATIONAL PARK 



Towering 3.600 feet above the Merced River, which mirrors back its beauty and its 

 majestic lines, El Capitan, that vast block of vmjointed granite, each of whose several faces 

 shows a surface of more than 160 acres, stands in stately silence, one of the noblest rocks on 

 earth — a literal rock of ages. 



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