Rock climbing is no longer a fringe sport ... After perfecting her craft in Yosemite, Hill moved on to other venues, winning dozens of competitions in Europe. Then in 1994, at 33, she returned ...

During much of the year, Yosemite Valley's granite is slick due to glacier polish and how the rock captures and holds ... Perhaps the biggest advantage to climbing this time of year, beside ...

This is a list of climbs I've done in Yosemite Valley. By "done" I mean I've at least been on them; sometimes I never made the anchors, but most times I did. Following Karl Baba's notation, # ...

This iconic climbing destination in Washington boasts rugged peaks, breathtaking views, and epic routes that every outdoor ...

This stuff is collected from assorted sources; it's accuracy is both a function of my memory and the honesty of the climbers involved. A better site for speedclimbing records is Hans Florine's ...

An American rock climber from California has pulled ... free soloed has a difficulty rating of 5.10c on the Yosemite Decimal System of climbing difficulty—technically much easier than, say ...

Jacopo Larcher talks about his first climbing trip to Yosemite Valley, USA with Barbara Zangerl, during which they repeated El Nino (5.13c, 800m) on El Capitan and other granite big wall climbs. When ...

As it continues to surge in popularity, we take a look at dry tooling, its history and how the pursuit emerged from mixed ...

A main entrance to Yosemite Park in California is closed due ... closed on Tuesday due to a rock slide, according to the National Park Service (NPS). The SR-140 closure is located between Midpines ...

Guy McCarthy Oct 25, 2022 Oct 25, 2022 Updated Oct 27, 2022 An 8-year-old boy from Colorado Springs is climbing El Capitan in Yosemite National ... generations of rock climbers around the world.