Yet, yesterday (January 14), after 19 straight days of clinging to Yosemite’s El Capitan, climbers Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson successfully completed the first free ascent of the 5.14d Dawn Wall ...
presents another epic route on El Capitan. Freerider, essentially a variation of The Salathé Wall, offers more free-climbing potential and gained legendary status when Alex Honnold famously free ...
On a vertical rockface like El Capitan, the soaring slab of granite ... A historic flash of Freerider, her seventh free climb on El Cap before scaling the Golden Gate route soon after, adds ...
Grim. There’s just so much climbing history in Yosemite, and El Capitan is the most iconic wall here, you know? When Lynn Hill became the first person to free-climb The Nose on El Cap ...
Climbers Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson became the first in the world to use only their hands and feet to scale a sheer granite face called 'El Capitan' in California's Yosemite National.
Alex Honnold free solo climbing Freerider, El Capitan, Yosemite, USA on 3 June 2017. In doing so he has become the first person to climb El Cap without ropes Planetmountain.com is a site about ...
California's Dawn Wall is by far the toughest route to the top of the El Capitan rock formation ... which both men completed on New Year's Day. A free climb uses just physical strength to ...
Alex Honnold free solo climbing El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. (National Geographic/Jimmy Chin) 1. Take incremental steps to broaden your comfort zone Talking about “overcoming fear" is ...
El Capitan is a big climb – the NPS labels it a "Big Wall Climb." As such, overnight climbing trips require a special permit (the Wilderness Climbing Permit). The good news is it is free and ...
Tom Randall are all in Yosemite currently attempting their projects on El Capitan... With soaring temperatures dropping fast, action is rapidly heating up in the world's epicenter of big wall climbing ...