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 ...

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 ...

A married couple from San Jose, California, was killed in a rockslide at Yosemite National Park on Tuesday, park officials ...

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 ...

Rock climber Alex Honnold has pulled off ... “There’s just so much climbing history in Yosemite, and El Capitan is the most iconic wall here,” Honnold told Men’s Journal when asked why ...

For many athletes, their sport is also what lets them tap into a “flow state” — the sense of calm and happiness that comes ...

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

You don't have to be a climber to know of Alex Honnold. If fact, you don't need to know a thing about climbing to know who this legend is. Among the general pop ...

The three rock climbers set a private competition to see who could be the first to "climb a rather hard route" again ...