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Amid federal shutdown, BASE jumpers converge on Yosemite’s El Capitan

The Washington Post · last updated

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — Rock climber Peter Zabrok was enjoying his morning coffee, dangling from a slab of granite hundreds of feet off the ground, when he heard a sound he likened to a jet engine and saw a flash of color overhead.

“There’s one now!” he yelled. “There’s two now!”