Kevin Jorgeson and Ben Rueck Free the West Face of Sentinel
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Fifty-six years after Yvon Chouinard and Tom Frost’s first ascent, Kevin Jorgeson and Ben Rueck make the first free ascent of the West Face of Sentinel. The West Face was the third big wall climbed in America, circa 1960, and is now one of the most overlooked formations in Yosemite National Park.