... Drummond, has succeeded in his lone attempt to conquer the sheer rock face of El Capitan, which rises 3,564 feet in the Yosemite Valley, California. Mr Drummond, aged 28, whose parents, Mr and Mrs Bill Drummond, live in Hilston Avenue, Penn, becomes the ...

... climbing and did the job myself.” As part of his training, he spent several weeks in among the hazardous peaks of the Yosemite Valley in California and then went on to Switzerland and the killer peaks of the Eiger itself. One scene — which had to be reached ...