SAN FRANCISCO — Alex Honnold had dreamed about climbing the mighty El Capitan in Yosemite National Park without any safety gear for eight years. But every time he looked up the massive granite ...

On Saturday, Honnold became the first person to free-solo climb the mountain known as El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. “Free solo” is climber-speak for no ropes, no safety gear.

A California rock climber has become the first person to conquer Yosemite's El Capitan without using ropes, USA Today reports. Alex Honnold, 31, scaled the nearly 3,000-foot peak on Saturday going ...

Yosemite Falls in Yosemite Valley ... Real glasses, not plastic," Whitmore says. That climb up El Capitan didn’t only bring innovation in gear, but author John Long says it also brought a ...

Alex Honnold had dreamed about climbing the mighty El Capitan in Yosemite National Park without any safety gear for eight years. But every time he looked up the massive granite wall, he found it ...

No one has really been playing the speed climbing game for several years; it's great to see someone getting after it again.' Ehman, who has already completed El Capitan sixteen times this year ...

Two climbers scaled Yosemite's El Capitan naked – and that's not a fancy climbing term. The pair were bare. Leah Pappajohn, 29, and Jonathan Fleury, 28, climbed the famed rock formation on June ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The massive granite slab that fell from the iconic El Capitan rock formation in Yosemite National Park and killed a British climber was a rare event — but only because the rock fall ...

Yosemite National Park has made permanent its divisive permitting process for rock climbers who plan to do multiday “big wall” climbs, like El Capitan or Half Dome. June 30, 2023 ...

became the first men in history to free-climb El Capitan's so-called "Dawn Wall". The 914-metre sheer granite rock-face in California’s Yosemite National Park, considered the world’s toughest ...

A group of climber-activists has just hung a large Transgender Pride flag in the middle of El Capitan’s massive granite face, visible to onlookers in Yosemite Valley. It’s an “act of ...

A group of LGBTQ climbers and advocates hung a large transgender pride flag in the middle of Yosemite’s famous El Capitan rock formation on Tuesday. Trans Is Natural, which describes itself as a ...