10-Year-Old Colorado Girl ‘Overwhelmed’ After Yosemite Climb

Michael Schneiter posing with his daughter, Selah Schneiter, at the beginning of her climb up El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, Calif., on June 8, 2019. Michael Schneiter via AP

SAN FRANCISCO—A 10-year-old Colorado girl scaled Yosemite National Park’s El Capitan and may have become the youngest person to climb one of the most celebrated and challenging peaks in the world.

Selah Schneiter of Glenwood Springs, Colorado, completed the 3,000-foot climb of the vertical rock formation with the help of her father, Mike Schneiter, and family friend, Mark Regier.