An elite rock climber became the first to climb alone to the top of the massive granite wall known as El Capitan in Yosemite National Park without using ropes or safety gear. Alex Honnold completed ...

An American climber has become the first woman to free-climb El Capitan's longest route, a journey that took more than three weeks and has been completed by only a handful of climbers. It took Sasha ...

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 ...

Alex Honnold, a celebrated 31-year-old rock climber, on Saturday became the first person to scale Yosemite's El Capitan, a nearly 3,000-foot granite wall, without using ropes or other safety gear, ...

While Alex Honnold has long been a legend in the outdoor community for his mastery of "free soloing"-- climbing without ropes or safety gear -- he became a household name following his historic 2017 ...

After his historic free-climb ascent of the El Capitan’s Dawn Wall in Yosemite National Park in early 2015, Tommy Caldwell stared down a nearly as daunting challenge: a blank page. To write his memoir ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sasha DiGiulian, 33, is now the first woman to free-climb what's known as the "Platinum Wall," the longest route straight to the 3 ...