El Capitan

A father says his 7-year-old son cried every day while climbing El Capitan, the roughly 3,000-foot granite wall in Yosemite National Park, and argues the experience was good parenting. He says pushing through the boy's daily tears on the demanding multi-day ascent taught resilience rather than being cruel, a framing that is drawing attention and debate about how young is too young for such an endurance challenge.