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Secret Yosemite

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Yosemite National Park is a land of giants: El Capitan, a chunk of granite twice as tall as the Empire State Building; Yosemite Falls, the tallest waterfall in North America; and the giant sequoia, the tallest tree in the world. Few experience Yosemite's wild heart like the men and women you'll meet in Secret Yosemite. Alongside one of Yosemite's elite rock-climbers, we'll scale El Cap, the largest granite monolith on the planet. We'll follow the fateful steps of five men in 1985 during what became one of Yosemite's deadliest days. And we'll journey to the crown of a giant sequoia, which could have been a sapling in Cleopatra's day. If you think you know Yosemite, think again.

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