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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...