7yr-old breaks brothers' record and becomes the youngest person ever to summit El Capitan
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“Joey Danger Evermore turned 7 years old while summiting El Capitan in Yosemite National Park.”
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Multiple independent web search results confirm that Joey Danger Evermore summited El Capitan and that he turned 7 during the process (starting as a 6-year-old).
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— 2 days ago ... Joey Danger is loving his time up on ElCapitan! He's got a few days to go till the summit! Would love to have you all cheering him on. He's ...
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— 5 hours ago ... Joey Danger Evermore summited the infamous, 7,573- foot monolith in Yosemite National Park, making him the youngest person to achieve the feat ...
https://www.facebook.com/ABCNews/posts/a-7-year-old-boy-has-…
https://www.facebook.com/ABCNews/posts/a-7-year-old-boy-has-…
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— 3 hours ago ... Joey Danger Evermore, who began the climb on Sunday as a 6-year-old, summited the infamous, 7,573-foot monolith in Yosemite National Park, ...
https://abc7ny.com/post/7-year-old-boy-becomes-youngest-clim…
https://abc7ny.com/post/7-year-old-boy-becomes-youngest-clim…
“Joey became the youngest ever to summit El Capitan”
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Two separate news-style web search results explicitly state that Joey Danger Evermore is the youngest person to achieve the feat of climbing El Capitan.
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— 5 hours ago ... Joey Danger Evermore summited the infamous, 7,573- foot monolith in Yosemite National Park, making him the youngest person to achieve the feat ...
https://www.facebook.com/ABCNews/posts/a-7-year-old-boy-has-…
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— 3 hours ago ... Joey Danger Evermore turned 7 while climbing the monolith. ... A 7-year-old boy from Colorado became the youngest to ever climb Yosemite's El ...
https://abc7ny.com/post/7-year-old-boy-becomes-youngest-clim…
https://abc7ny.com/post/7-year-old-boy-becomes-youngest-clim…
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— 6 hours ago ... Sam is a fun climbing kid. He's the youngest person to climb ElCapitan via rope ascent. managed by parents. Sponsored Athlete.
https://www.instagram.com/samueladventure/?hl=en
https://www.instagram.com/samueladventure/?hl=en
“beating out his two older brothers, Sam and Sylvan, who both did it at 8 years old.”
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One source explicitly states Sam Evermore was 8 when he became the youngest to ascend El Capitan. Another source confirms Joey completed the climb alongside brothers Sam and Sylvan, and the context of 'beating' them implies they were older at the time of their respective climbs.
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— Honnold rose to worldwide fame in June 2017 when he became the first person to free solo a full route on El Capitan in Yosemite National Park via the 880-metre route Freerider at grade 5.13a, the firs…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Honnold
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Honnold
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— Joey Evermore completed the climb alongside his older brothers, Sam Evermore and Sylvan Evermore, his father Joe Evermore and a documentary crew. "Joey’s birthday has been amazing. He started this jou…
https://abcnews.com/GMA/Living/7-year-climbs-el-capitan-cele…
https://abcnews.com/GMA/Living/7-year-climbs-el-capitan-cele…
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— Three years ago, 8-year-old Sam Evermore made history—and global headlines—by becoming the youngest person to ascend El Capitan, the iconic rock formation inside Yosemite National Park. Now, his young…
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/another-8-year-old…
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/another-8-year-old…
“YOSAR is Yosemite Search and Rescue.”
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Multiple authoritative sources, including the official 'Friends of Yosemite Search and Rescue' website and social media, explicitly state that YOSAR stands for Yosemite Search and Rescue.
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— Jim Bridwell (July 29, 1944 – February 16, 2018) was an American rock climber and mountaineer, active from 1965 in Yosemite Valley, but later in Patagonia and Alaska. He was noted for pushing the stan…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bridwell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bridwell
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— Mountain rescue refers to search and rescue activities that occur in a mountainous environment, although the term is sometimes also used to apply to search and rescue in other wilderness environments.…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_rescue
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— In the United States, mountain rescue is handled by professional teams within some national parks and by volunteer teams elsewhere. Volunteer teams are often members of the Mountain Rescue Associati…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_rescue_in_the_United_…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_rescue_in_the_United_…
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