The Big Rescue

Written by Peder Ourom

Yosemite Valley, California, El Capitan, the Nose

How a Scottish base jumper needed all his strength and skills to survive both a failed base jump in Yosemite, and the rescue and desperate retreat that followed. His name was Billy Glasgow, and he climbed the hardest pitch ever accomplished on El Capitan.  Here is the real story of what happened over the next two days and nights, and what our rogue Canadian rescue team pulled off. I know, because I was part of the team.