{"id":5932,"date":"2015-06-24T14:39:55","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T21:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=5932"},"modified":"2015-06-24T14:41:35","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T21:41:35","slug":"scale-yosemites-el-capitan-with-google-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=5932","title":{"rendered":"Scale Yosemite’s El Capitan with Google Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yosemite, CA…From Google…”Today we\u2019re launching our first-ever vertical Street View collection, giving you the opportunity to climb 3,000 feet up the world\u2019s most famous rock wall: Yosemite\u2019s El Capitan<\/a>. To bring you this new imagery, we partnered with legendary climbers Lynn Hill, Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell. Read more about the project from Tommy Caldwell, who completed the world\u2019s hardest climb in Yosemite in January of 2015.<\/i> -Ed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is awesome. I definitely have to be a part of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maybe it was the sheer exhaustion from being in the middle of a 19-day climb of the Dawn Wall<\/a>, but when the guys at Google Maps and Yosemite National Park<\/a> asked if I wanted to help them with their first-ever vertical Street View collection of El Capitan in Yosemite<\/a>, I didn\u2019t hesitate. Yosemite has been such an important part of my life that telling the story of El Capitan through Street View was right up my alley\u2014especially when it meant working with the Google engineers to figure out some absurd challenges.<\/p>\n