As a professional rock climber, I've spent my career pushing myself to new limits. I've won national championships, competed in world cup competitions, and summited some of the most iconic peaks in ...

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 ...

On a vertical rockface like El Capitan, the soaring slab of granite in California’s Yosemite National Park, perfection is an elusive, almost impossible goal for professional climbers. It can take ...

This past fall, Connor Herson decided to take a four-month break from his studies at Stanford University to go rock climbing. Herson, 21, is pursuing a degree in engineering, but his studies have ...

A father and son team is getting ready to take on one of the most famous vertical rock formations in the world -- Yosemite's El Capitan. YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. -- A father and son team is ...

Austrian climber Barbara "Babsi" Zengeri made history this weekend as the first person ever to flash climb a route on El Capitan. According to an Instagram post from Black Diamond, which you can view ...

Jake Whisenant, 30, has died after an accident in the Sierra Nevada. The well-known rock climber once scaled El Capitan’s Nose route twice in a single day.

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 ...