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After adding underwater imagery to its Street View offerings earlier this month, Google is now allowing users to go in the other direction: up. The tech giant has announced a new vertical Street View, which provides users a climber’s-eye-view of treacherous cliffs.

Funnily enough, Google chose to kick off this new imagery at Yosemite’s “El Capitan” rock face, which shares a name with tech competitor Apple’s latest OS X version. However, it’s unlikely that Google co-opted the name with any malicious intent, as El Capitan is one of the most famous rock climbing sites in the U.S.

In order to provide these vertical visuals, Google partnered up with a team of renowned climbers, including Lynn Hill, the first person to free-climb El Capitan’s “Nose,” speed climbing champion Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell, who recently scaled El Capitan’s perilous “Dawn Wall.” With the help of these seasoned climbers, Google’s team of photographers completed the difficult task of picturing the cliff while suspended thousands of feet in the air.

And what they captured is a series of astonishing routes up El Capitan’s face. The vertical Street View includes multi-view images of all the climbers at various spots on the cliff, an entire vertical climbing route of the “Nose” and images of Caldwell on the “Dawn Wall.”

Google is also offering a Yosemite Treks page, which lets users complete a virtual climb up El Captan’s “Nose,” providing beautiful panoramic visuals along the way. At each stage of the climb, you also get climbing tips, details on the most hazardous portions of the face and some history on the “Nose.”

Caldwell said in a blog post that the new imagery is the closest thing he’s witnessed to being up on the mountain, but hopes it will inspire people to go see Yosemite for themselves. As Honnold so eloquently expressed in Google’s promo video, spending time on the side of a cliff is a completely unique experience:

“Climbing in places like Yosemite has a way of connecting us with nature that is sort of getting lost in today’s world.”

Check out some of vertical Street View’s highlights in this video: