and “The Dawn Wall” (2017), the record of a milestone in big wall free climbing, when in 2015 Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson ascended the towering buttress of El Capitan in Yosemite.

The stone wall beside the Gov. Edward Dudley Mansion in Wilmington may date back to the 1700s. Deeds show that the wall was already standing by 1837 and was likely built to hold back the bluff.

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