Most seven-year-olds celebrate birthdays with balloons, cake and presents. Joey Danger Evermore spent his birthday climbing one of the world’s most iconic granite walls. Suspended thousands of feet above the ground inside Yosemite National Park, Joey climbed El Capitan alongside his family, becoming the youngest known person to complete the ascent. The achievement stunned climbers around the world not only because of Joey’s age, but because El Capitan is regarded as one of the most technically demanding and challenging big-wall climbs in the world. For Joey, however, the intimidating granite face appeared almost like an enormous adventure playground hanging above Yosemite Valley.
How Joey Danger climbed El Capitan
