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 ...

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 ...

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, # ...

Resting in the shadows of the Sierra Nevada, Yosemite National Park offers peak tranquility and opportunities to revel in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The slide came crashing down across both lanes of Highway 140, a scenic winding route along the Merced River between the town of Mariposa and Yosemite’s Arch Rock entrance. “The boulders that ...

MARIPOSA COUNTY – One of the major roads leading to the entrance of Yosemite National Park is still blocked due to a large rockslide, and officials are warning people that the closure could last ...

Other employees have taken buyouts or retired. “I’m glad there’s a reservation system,” Ken Yager, president of the Yosemite Climbing Association, told SFGATE in a phone interview.

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.