Guy’s Thumb Saved After 80-Foot Yosemite Drop

After a season of untimely deaths at Yosemite comes an amazing survival story—starring a thumb. A climber was scaling the park’s El Capitan granite monolith Monday afternoon when he fell, causing a climbing rope to sever his right thumb and send it bouncing down the rock face, the Los…

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Guy’s Thumb Saved After 80-Foot Yosemite Drop

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