Alex J. Wood was in the Yosemite Valley on Monday taking photos of El Capitan’s picturesque rock face. And when he heard 'the loudest thunder ever,' he looked up and saw a huge rock falling down the famous granite slab
Alex J. Wood was in the Yosemite Valley on Monday morning taking photos of El Capitan’s picturesque rock face when he heard what sounded like the “loudest thunder ever.”“I couldn’t believe what I saw,” Wood said, who happened to be taking photos at the time and captured the final portion of the rock’s fall on video. “It looked like a giant oversized grand piano falling in slow motion. … It was mad.
Wood was far enough from the rockfall that he said he wasn’t worried about his safety. He was concerned, however, about climbers he’d seen on the side of El Capitan and possible hikers nearby.“Nobody was hurt, and there was no damage,” said Ranger Scott Gediman, a spokesperson for Yosemite National Park.
. The phenomenon occurs when the setting sun hits the El Capitan waterfall in such a way that it looks like lava flowing down the rock face. Peak time for firefall is late February, often drawing throngs of visitors and photographers, but Gediman said Monday’s rockfall didn’t affect that popular tourist event.
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