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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Austrian climber Barbara "Babsi" Zengeri made history this weekend as the first person ever to flash climb a route on El Capitan ... by Alex Honnold's 2017 free solo climb. Flashing a climbing ...

Alex Honnold climbing free solo Freerider, El Capitan, Yosemite, USA on 3 June 2017. In doing so he has become the first person to climb El Cap without ropes Planetmountain.com is a site about ...

presents another epic route on El Capitan. Freerider, essentially a variation of The Salathé Wall, offers more free-climbing potential and gained legendary status when Alex Honnold famously free ...

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 ...

Climbers Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson became the first in the world to use only their hands and feet to scale a sheer granite face called 'El Capitan' in California's Yosemite National.

Alex Honnold free solo climbing El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. (National Geographic/Jimmy Chin) 1. Take incremental steps to broaden your comfort zone Talking about “overcoming fear" is ...

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 ...

When Jordan Cannon a young climber infatuated with climbing history meets climbing ... wants to complete an allfree ascent Freerider on El Capitan in a day Hudon hopes to free the route in as ...

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 ...