Durango climber dies in Yosemite

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Durango climber dies in Yosemite

Tyler Gordon, 21, was climbing El Capitan
Media members watch as two climbers vie to become the first in the world to use only their hands and feet to scale a sheer slab of granite earlier this year up El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, California. A former Durango man fell about 200 feet to his death Wednesday while climbing the iconic rockface.

Durango climber dies in Yosemite

Media members watch as two climbers vie to become the first in the world to use only their hands and feet to scale a sheer slab of granite earlier this year up El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, California. A former Durango man fell about 200 feet to his death Wednesday while climbing the iconic rockface.