What started as a normal day climbing El Capitan quickly turned into something much bigger. Nearly 1,000 feet above Yosemite Valley, in the middle of a long multi-pitch route, everything changes.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. American climber Sasha DiGiulian has become the first woman to free-climb El Capitan's longest route — a journey she said ended up ...

Climber Sasha Digiulian recently finished a taxing 23-day ascent up El Capitan along what is believed to be the longest route on the famous granite cliff - one that few climbers have ever completed.

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 ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES(AP) — A popular Alaskan climber fell to his death from Yosemite National Park's El Capitan, marking the third death in the park this summer. Balin Miller, 23, died in a climbing accident ...

Following a grueling five-day push, 10-year-old Glenwood Springs native Selah Schneiter became the youngest to ever scale the 3,000-foot nose of the iconic El Capitan at Yosemite National Park.

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 ...