Two climbers are on their way to completing the hardest rock climb in the world - the 3,000ft high El Capitan's Dawn Wall in Yosemite National Park. Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson have been ...

El Capitan is one of the world's favourite challenges for rock climbers A climber who has become the first person to reach the top of California's El Capitan rock without a rope has described his ...

The 1970s brought ‘Clean Climbing’ championed ... s supreme skills and brought further attention to rock climbing and El Capitan. The Heart, positioned on the southwest face of El Capitan ...

El Capitan is one of the best-known landmarks in Yosemite Two climbers have been killed while trying to scale the granite rock formation known as El Capitan in California's Yosemite National Park.

Jorg Verhoeven, Alex Honnold, Tommy Caldwell, Kevin Jorgeson, Mayan Smith-Gobat, Libby Sauter, Chantel Astorga, Quinn Brett, Pete Whittaker, Tom Randall are all in Yosemite currently attempting their ...

On a vertical rockface like El Capitan, the soaring slab of granite in California’s Yosemite National Park, perfection is an elusive, almost impossible goal for professional climbers. It can ...

"Free Solo," is an intimate portrait of professional adventure rock climber Alex Honnold. In 2017, Honnold completed the first ever free solo climb of the 3,200 foot granite face of El Capitan in ...

According to National Geographic, which funded the research, in recent years a dozen people have died due to rock fall (the latest, unfortunately, at the beginning of June, 28-year old Englishman ...

Called Tutokanula by the Ahwahneechee people, El Capitan is one of the greatest areas in the world for climbing. Experienced rock climbers can often be seen clinging to the side of El Capitan at ...