Yosemite National Park, widely regarded as the birthplace of modern rock climbing has attracted generations of climbers seeking to scale iconic El Capitan and its famous routes. The history of ...

flat section through Little Yosemite Valley near the Merced River. The trail then ventures up the sub dome. When you finally reach the base of the Half Dome, a steep rocky climb finally takes you ...

“I really wanted to see what I could do in a full season of Yosemite climbing.” Herson made the most of this most recent break from class. In November, he free climbed one of the hardest ...

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 ...

This is a list of climbs I've done in Yosemite Valley. By "done" I mean I've at least been on them; sometimes I never made the anchors, but most times I did. Following Karl Baba's notation, # ...

Additionally, participants must be able to climb comfortably and without falling at or above the Yosemite Decimal System (YDS) grade of 5.9 before participating. Prior to participating in the class, ...

The El Capitan rock formation is the world's largest granite monolith and one of the best-known landmarks in Yosemite. The pair, found with climbing equipment, are believed to have been scouting ...

HENDERSON — Imagine tucking into bed beneath the stars — the wind is cold, and the bed is warm. Only, the “bed” is a platform perhaps the size of a coffee table, dangling at the midpoint of a rock ...