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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

has his sights set on free climbing The Nose on El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, California. The iconic 5.14 big wall route is usually climbed with aids, such as haulers, pitons and a rope ...

This past fall, Connor Herson decided to take a four-month break from his studies at Stanford University to go rock climbing. Herson, 21, is pursuing a degree in engineering, but his studies have ...

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 ... on New Year's Day. A free climb uses just ...

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 ...

In 1993, Lynn Hill redefined the possibilities of Yosemite climbing by becoming the first person to free-climb The Nose on El Capitan, famously stating, "It goes, boys." Hill’s groundbreaking ...

Officials are investigating how they both fell over 1,000ft (300m) from the granite rock formation, El Capitan. Yosemite Climbing Association president Ken Yager said: "Something weird happened.

The good news is it is free and climbers apply for it ... to walk up to its base and look up. El Capitan is located in the western portion of the Yosemite Valley. After parking, most visitors ...

On a vertical rockface like El Capitan ... in the Oscar-winning documentary “Free Solo.” Zangerl has lots of experience climbing on El Cap and around Yosemite but had never previously ...