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YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) A hunk of rock "the size of an apartment building" fell off the granite face of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park on Wednesday, killing one person and injuring another on a mountain at the height of climbing season, officials and witnesses said.
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Several people made emergency calls, reporting the rock fall from the Waterfall route on the east buttress of El Capitan.
Officials didn't provide details on the size of the rock fall, but climbers posted pictures on social media from hundreds of feet up the wall showing billowing white dust moments after the crash.
<snipped> http://www.sfgate.com/news/us/artic...ll-strikes-famous-12235865.php#photo-12521739
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/09/28/03/44CDDCA900000578-4927832-image-m-103_1506566146322.jpg
Lots of photos at DM and videos of the falling granite slab.
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Several people made emergency calls, reporting the rock fall from the Waterfall route on the east buttress of El Capitan.
Officials didn't provide details on the size of the rock fall, but climbers posted pictures on social media from hundreds of feet up the wall showing billowing white dust moments after the crash.
<snipped> http://www.sfgate.com/news/us/artic...ll-strikes-famous-12235865.php#photo-12521739
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/09/28/03/44CDDCA900000578-4927832-image-m-103_1506566146322.jpg
Lots of photos at DM and videos of the falling granite slab.