This video has some breathtaking shots of the world famous monument most have never seen before. That is unless you have climbed to the top of Devils Tower.
There have been many legends, rumors and old wives' tales surrounding Devils Tower, but there is definitely no giant system of roots under America's first national monument.
This video captures climbers grappling on the face of Devils Tower. It ends with a fly away shot of our Nations first National Monument in all its glory.
80 years ago this week, on June 28, 1937, Fritz Wiessner became the first person to "free climb" Devils Tower.
Although the German-born mountain climber was the first to scale the monument using modern techniques, many men had completed the ascent with the aid of a wooden ladder built decades earlier by two local ranchers...