Yet, yesterday (January 14), after 19 straight days of clinging to Yosemite’s El Capitan, climbers Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson successfully completed the first free ascent of the 5.14d Dawn Wall ...

Since moving to Las Vegas eight years ago, rock climber Alex Honnold has become all too familiar with the dangers of scaling ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Whether you have climbed El Capitan or never been on a rock there ... The climbing wall is open to all students and URec members. Climbing shoes, harnesses, and calk are available upon request and ...

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 ...

Yosemite National Park, widely regarded as the birthplace of modern rock climbing has attracted generations of climbers seeking to scale iconic El Capitan and its famous routes. The history of ...

Freerider is a popular route up El Capitan, the same one taken by Alex Honnold when he climbed the rockface without ropes or harnesses in the Oscar-winning documentary “Free Solo.” Zangerl has lots of ...