Mr. Porter, a self-taught adventurer and climate scientist, was most famous for the climbing routes he devised up El Capitan in Yosemite National Park in the early 1970s. See the article here:   Charlie Porter, an Adventurer Scaling Rock and Sailing Seas, Is Dead at 63 ; ;Related ArticlesCharlie Porter, a Solitary Adventurer Who Reshaped the Ascent of a Monolith, Is Dead at 63Charlie Porter, an Adventurer Who Reshaped Climbing, Is Dead at 63U.S. Agrees to Allow BP Back Into Gulf Waters to Seek Oil ;

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Charlie Porter, an Adventurer Scaling Rock and Sailing Seas, Is Dead at 63