One of climbing’s most iconic walls witnessed a tragic accident this week, after a young climber died in an accident on El Capitan in Yosemite this week. Balin Miller, 23, a promising athlete in the ...
American climber Sasha DiGiulian has become the first woman to free-climb El Capitan's longest route — a journey she said ended up being the "most formative and challenging climb" of her career. "When ...
Her list of physical feats seems almost impossible. Win national sport-climbing competitions starting at the age of 13? Check. Summit Mount Everest? Check. Free-climb El Capitan in under 24 hours?
On Monday, November 13, 2023, Sam Stroh climbed El Capitan's El Corazon (5.13b, 32 pitches) in 22 hours. Stroh is only the fourth person to climb the 3,000-foot route in a day, after Tommy Caldwell, ...
(NEW YORK) — Emily Harrington was close to the 3,000-foot top of Yosemite National Park’s El Capitan, close to achieving the historic goal she’d spent years working up to, and she was resigning ...
Emily Harrington is being celebrated for becoming the fourth woman to free-climb Yosemite National Park‘s famous El Capitan within a day. And she’s the first woman to do so via a very challenging ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two of the world’s best rock climbers coped with frightening falls and the deaths of two fellow climbers on the same rock in a monthlong quest to shatter a mythical record in ...