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Climbing Guadalupe Peak, Texas

A panoramic photograph looking south from the summit of Guadalupe Peak. The prominent prow-like peak below the summit of Guadalupe Peak is El Capitan (8,085 feet / 2,464 metres) – not to be confused with the El Capitan at Yosemite if only for the fact that the rock on the El Capitan in Texas is, to quote Douglas Butler’s book, A Walk Atop America, “eroding, easily dislodged limestone, making rock climbing impractical and dangerous.”