Sean Leary and Dean Potter have set a new Speed record on The Nose, El Capitan, climbing the route in 2:36:45 20 seconds. That's the time which, after almost 900m of climbing, the Americans Sean Leary ...

Yuji Hirayama climbing up to The Great Roof during the record breaking speed ascent of the Nose together with Hans Florine in 2:37:05. Planetmountain.com is a site about climbing, mountaineering, ...

Connor Herson, 21, took a break from classes this fall to free climb this iconic route alongside Tommy Caldwell This past ...

At age 15, Herson became the youngest person to free climb the Nose route on El Capitan. “I’ve always balanced school and climbing but it’s gotten a lot trickier as I’ve gotten deeper into ...

How to free climb El Capitan Who What Why ... The first, Lynn Hill, some three decades ago, used the The Nose route. In recent years, three people - all men - have managed to climb the granite ...

In 1958, Warren Harding, along with Wayne Merry and George Whitmore, completed the first ascent of El Capitan via The Nose route, an audacious feat that took 47 days and established Yosemite as ...