Dad, can we get go to McDonald’s after climbing this sheer rock face?

An 8-year-old boy climbed 3,000-foot El Capitan in Yosemite recently. He’s a pro mountain climber at eight?

OK, but at eight I could finally ice skate without my ankles touching the ice.

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