Jun 21, 2012 On June 17th 2012 Alex Honnold and Hans Florine set a new speed record for climbing the Nose of El Capitan - 2,900 feet in 2:23.46. For those of us sitting in El Capitan Meadow, this was hardly to. Amid hollering and cheering from friends in the valley below the pair raced up the final 5.6 pitches and at 9:10 a.m. They summited El Capitan in a new fastest time of 2 hours 19 minutes and 44 seconds—4 minutes and 2 seconds faster than the previous record set in 2012 by Alex Honnold and Hans Florine.
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You can upgrade to OS X El Capitan from OS X Snow Leopard or later on any of the following Mac models. Your Mac also needs at least 2GB of memory and 8.8GB of available storage space.
MacBook introduced in 2009 or later, plus MacBook (13-inch, Aluminum, Late 2008)
MacBook Air introduced in late 2008 or later
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Double-click the downloaded file to open a window showing its contents. Then double-click the file within, named InstallMacOSX.pkg.
Follow the onscreen instructions, which will guide you through the steps necessary to install.
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After installation of the installer is complete, open the Applications folder on your Mac, then double-click the file named Install OS X El Capitan.
Click Continue and follow the onscreen instructions. You might find it easiest to begin installation in the evening so that it can complete overnight, if needed.
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- OS X El Capitan won't install on top of a later version of macOS, but you can erase your disk first or install on another disk.
- You can use macOS Recovery to reinstall macOS.
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A renowned rock climber survived a fall from Yosemite’s El Capitan rock formation this weekend, thanks in large part to the intervention of “Free Solo” star Alex Honnold.
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Emily Harrington, 33, fell from the 3,200-foot sheer granite wall Sunday, suffering severe spinal injuries.
Honnold, star of the 2018 documentary “Free Solo,” which chronicled his efforts to ascend El Capitan without any ropes, was among fellow climbers who helped rescue her.
“I had an accident yesterday on El Cap,” wrote Harrington, a five-time U.S. sport climbing champion, on her Instagram. “I’m banged up but gonna be ok thankfully.”
“Not much to say except I took a bad fall and pin balled a bit then somehow hit the rope w my neck,” she wrote.
Harrington’s boyfriend, Adrian Ballinger, posted a picture of Harington on his Instagram of her being hauled away in a stretcher while clearly in pain.
“The most important person in my world in below freezing temperatures with real injuries and a lot of reasons to suspect spinal injury,” he wrote. “But looking back it was al the best case scenario of the worst case scenario.”
Ballinger praised Honnold for maintaining spinal immobilization on the wall while “getting things ready for an evac, and telling stories and keeping her talking throughout.”
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Harrington is renowned in the climbing community, having climbed high-altitude peaks in Nepal, China, Myanmar, Crimea, and Morocco. She is also sponsored by The North Face, among other companies.