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‘I thought the last place that he would die would be in Yosemite’: Best friends and master climbers fall to their deaths while scaling El Capitan

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When it came to climbing, Jason Wells and Tim Klein were in a league of their own. The duo, friends and climbing partners since their early 20s, would often scale Yosemite National Park’s famous El Capitan twice in the same weekend - a climb that takes even skilled climbers several days to complete.

So when they set out to climb the 3,000-foot granite rock formation in California on Saturday, Wells, 46, and Klein, 42, were well within their comfort zone. “They were not pushing the envelope,” a fellow climber and close friend of Wells’s, Brady Robinson, said in an interview with The Washington Post.