Enock in the News – Fresno Bee

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Carmen George,a reporter for the Fresno Bee, wrote an article about my time in Yosemite National Park climbing Astroman on Washington Column.  She did a really great job summing the whole thing up.  She illustrates how the climbing community can really come together to make each others goals a reality.

For Enock Glidden of Maine, a group of generous Yosemite National Park climbers were part of that web of immeasurable support that made his goal of big-wall climbing a reality earlier this month. They helped carry him through – literally.

Glidden, 37, is paralyzed from the waist down. He was born with the most severe kind ofspina bifida, a birth defect where the spinal column doesn’t form correctly in the womb.

But the disability didn’t keep him – or a slew of friends and strangers – from believing he could climb one of Yosemite’s most challenging routes, “Astroman.”