Mountain description
El Capitan is a vertical granite monolith rising about 900 metres above the floor of Yosemite Valley in California, and one of the most iconic rock-climbing walls on Earth, home to legendary big-wall routes such as The Nose and the Dawn Wall. Hikers reach the summit on a strenuous trail that climbs past Yosemite Falls. The season runs from late spring through autumn, when the granite is dry and the high country is snow-free.
Key facts
El Capitan (2,458 m) is in Texas, in the Guadalupe Mountains.
- Region
- Texas
- Mountain range
- Guadalupe Mountains
- Prominence
- 87 m
- Nearest higher peak
- Guadalupe Peak · 2,657 m, 1.6 km
- Trailhead
- 2.7 km
- Nearest village
- Pine Springs · 4.8 km