A thousand feet above us Alex is climbing, antlike, up the rock wall. The Althouris are beside themselves. “What are they saying?” I ask our translator. “It’s hard to explain,” he replies.

Flashing Freerider Babsi Zangerl just ‘Flashed’ Freerider (VI, 5.13a) on El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. The ...

Climbing in Yosemite began modestly in the early 20th century but gained serious traction in the 1950s and 1960s, becoming ...

Yosemite National Park, widely regarded as the birthplace of modern rock climbing has attracted ... s 2015 ascent of the Dawn Wall, widely considered one of the hardest big-wall free climbs ...