I think I was 18. I'd bagged a handful of long free routes but not the Nose or Salathe or any of the other trade routes up the 3,000-foot El Capitan, home to the most celebrated big-wall climbs on ...

Yosemite Valley and its famous El Capitan have long been at the centre of the rock climbing universe. However, in recent years, the gigantic rock formation has found its way into the general public's ...

"I would rather live 40 years of excitement and fun and exhilarating and WOO full volume than 80 years of la-dee-da-dee-da. You know...boring," Ammon McNeely said in Yosemite Valley in 2006 while ...

LOS ANGELES -- Days after two of the world's most celebrated rock climbers twice set astonishingly fast records on the biggest wall in Yosemite National Park, they did it again Wednesday, breaking a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "I'm going to the moon!" shouted Joey on camera, pushing off from the wall. Typically, when climbing records are broken, Climbing ...

Former Yosemite Search and Rescue (YOSAR) worker Josie McKee was speed-climbing the Nose of El Capitan with fellow big-wall climber Quinn Brett when Brett took a massive fall that left her paralyzed.

Ever since he scaled Yosemite’s Half Dome without a rope, fellow climbers and writers asked Alex Honnold when he was going to take on El Capitan. He would always dismiss the question politely, ...

On Sunday, National Geographic Channel will premiere The Man Who Can Fly, a special featuring climber and BASE jumper Dean Potter. The program follows Potter as he attempts to climb and BASE jump from ...

Well it has been a while since I have written anything. I was busy climbing. I did a tribute route to my friend and mentor Mike Sanders. It took me all summer to finish it. It is quite a story. It ...