A new name has been added to Yosemite’s record books.
Eight-year-old Sylvan Evermore and his father, Joe Evermore, reached the summit of El Capitan on October 24 after a weeklong ascent up the 3,000-foot granite giant. The climb comes three years after Sylvan’s older brother, Sam Evermore, made history as the youngest person to scale El Cap at the same age.
The Evermores, formerly known as the Baker family, live in Colorado Springs and took on the Freerider route, a notoriously challenging line on Yosemite’s most iconic wall. Like his brother, Sylvan used a method known as “jugging”, or rope ascent, where climbers use handheld devices to inch up fixed ropes set by a lead climber above…