TANK: There are some pretty tall buildings there, but nothing as tall as this. Two climbers reached the top of El Capitan on Wednesday after a nearly three week journey. The rock formation at Yosemite National Park in California is more than 900 meters high. Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jogfin (ph) completed what's known as a free climb, using only their hands and feet. CNN's Dan Simon has the details.</s>DAN SIMON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: And this was considered the world's hardest climb, that's because the pair using just their feet and hands to scale that massive 3,000 foot fall known as El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, they become the first people in the world to freeclimb the formation's Don wall. Now they did have ropes and other safety devices in case there was a fall. They did fall from time to time, but they did achieve the impossible. Tommy Caldwell, Kevin Jorgenssion (ph) doing that free climb. Now you're talking about a journey that goes all the way back to December 27. They did have some supporters who were sending them up supplies and food to keep them going. As you can imagine, going down will be a lot easier than going up. That moment five years in the making.</s>TANK: Remarkable stuff. Well, we want to give you a visual of just how tall El Capitan actually is and what makes the climb so impressive. Let's use Google Earth to put the Burj Khalifa next to El Capitan and you can see the difference right there. There you go. So the world's tallest building is actually shorter than the mountain. The Burj Khalifa stands at 828 meters, short of the 900 meters height of El Capitan's Dawn Wall. It's really quite incredible. Well, that was News Stream. I'm Manisha Tank. World Business Today with Maggie Lake is up next. END
Two Men Scale El Capitan