El Capitan Hike from Yosemite Falls Trail

Imagine this… you’re in Yosemite on an ordinary bright, calm day. The kind where the sky feels too blue, too peaceful for anything unusual to happen. Then out of nowhere people start running, not in the “something interesting is happening” way… but in the kind of way where you can hear the panic in their breath before you even see what they’re looking at. The first clip was filmed right in Yosemite Valley. You can see how the camera is shaking because the guy filming is actually backing up while

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