YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. -- It was a magical moment years in the making: American rock climber Tommy Caldwell pulled himself atop the 3,000-foot wall of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – One of the men making a grueling ascent of a half-mile of exposed granite in California’s Yosemite National Park is now just 1,000 feet from finishing the groundbreaking climb.

An impossible dream was realized today for Yosemite climbers Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson, as they became the first to free-climb to the top of the nearly vertical El Capitan's "Dawn Wall." ...

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — Rock climber Emily Harrington has become the first woman, and fourth person, to free-climb the Golden Gate route on Yosemite National Park’s granite wall in a single ...

Watch Alex Honnold’s journey toward his rope-free climb of Yosemite National Park's El Capitan in Free Solo, the Oscar-winning film by E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, Sunday March 3 at 9/8c on ...

"Free Solo" captures Alex Honnold's struggles on and off the mountain. In 2017, mountaineering wonder kid Alex Honnold did the unimaginable: He reached the top of El Capitan, a 3,000-foot rockface in ...

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, CA - APRIL 11: Yosemite National Park is closed to visitors due to the coronavirus, Covid 19. El Capitan at sunrise on April 11, 2020. Animals roam the park without having to ...

This Oct. 20, 2004 file photo shows the climbing face of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. Two men, Kevin Jorgeson and Tommy Caldwell, are roughly halfway through climbing El Capitan: a free climb ...

Connor Herson, 21, took a break from classes this fall to free climb this iconic route alongside Tommy Caldwell This past ...