The first free ascent of a major El Cap route was not The Nose but the Salathe Wall by Todd Skinner and Paul Piana in 1988. Lynn Hill did the first free climb of The Nose in 1993 in four days.

Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell are two of the world’s best climbers. Why did they add a 2,600-mile odyssey of biking, ...

Alex Honnold climbing free solo 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 ...

Then in 1994, at 33, she returned to Yosemite with an audacious plan: to free climb the Nose on El Capitan in a day. "All the naysayers said it was impossible," Hill says. "Except John." ...

A world-renowned American free solo climber has died attempting ... Brad Gobright and Jim Reynolds speed climbing El Capitan in 2017 While Mr Jacobson crashed through a bush, which cushioned ...

After nearly eight weeks of headwinds, rain, and hills, the friends finally arrived in Alaska, ready for the Devil’s Climb.

On June 3, legendary rock climber Alex Honnold completed the first ever free solo climb of El Capitan at Yosemite National Park in California. The 31-year-old climbed the nearly 3,000-foot wall in ...

Towering 3,000 feet above Yosemite Valley, El Capitan is not just a geological marvel but also a significant economic driver ...

From Tasmania to Vietnam, the world is filled with astounding rock formations for intrepid climbers. Here, Australian climber ...

Caldwell’s tenacity is perhaps best displayed in the award-winning documentary The Dawn Wall, a 2017 film that showcases his historic big wall free climb of El Capitan’s Dawn Wall in Yosemite ...