American Emily Harrington is being celebrated for becoming one of the few women to free-climb Yosemite National Park's famous El Capitan within a day. She is also the first woman to have used a ...

The skilled climber recently tackled an iconic highball boulder known as 'Plumber's Crack' at Red Rock in Nevada. Shockingly, ...

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 ...

On a vertical rockface like El Capitan, the soaring slab of granite ... A historic flash of Freerider, her seventh free climb on El Cap before scaling the Golden Gate route soon after, adds ...

On 30 August Nicolas Favresse made the first ascent of "Lost in translation" a 400m, 10-pitch free climb (5.12b/c) on the East Face of El Capitan together with 30-year-old Ivo Ninov from Bulgaria.

Babsi Zangerl climbed Freerider (VI, 5.13a) on El Capitan in Yosemite this ... (no rope), highlighted in the movie Free Solo. Larcher, being Zangerl’s climbing partner and having never touched ...

Tom Randall are all in Yosemite currently attempting their projects on El Capitan... With soaring temperatures dropping fast, action is rapidly heating up in the world's epicenter of big wall climbing ...

California's Dawn Wall is by far the toughest route to the top of the El Capitan rock formation ... which both men completed on New Year's Day. A free climb uses just physical strength to ...

El Capitan is a big climb – the NPS labels it a "Big Wall Climb." As such, overnight climbing trips require a special permit (the Wilderness Climbing Permit). The good news is it is free and ...

(CNN) — On a vertical rockface like El Capitan, the soaring ... in the Oscar-winning documentary “Free Solo.” Zangerl has lots of experience climbing on El Cap and around Yosemite but ...