U.S. rock climber Tommy Caldwell posted this photo to Instagram with the caption, 'The route is taking a toll on our fingertips as we are now both climbing with taped up fingertips, but it doesn't ...

(Climbing ratings start at 5.0 and go to 5.15, currently the most difficult.) But not ready to free El Capitan; that remains the domain of the elite, of those men and women who continually expand ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Two men are roughly halfway through what has been called the hardest rock climb in the world: a free climb of a half-mile section of exposed granite in California's Yosemite ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Two men are roughly halfway through what has been called the hardest rock climb in the world: a free climb of a half-mile section of exposed granite in California's Yosemite ...

That highlights how personal soloing can be This 850m climb includes a fish-shaped niche that gives the route its name and was one of the most difficult free solosat the time it was scaled.

Caldwell climbs pitch 16, one of the most difficult sections of the Dawn Wall. Even in January, it was still too hot for free climbing in the direct California sun, forcing Caldwell and Jorgeson ...

Or, you could get into scrambling, free climbing easy routes at around ... The most difficult climbs in history The most difficult sport climbing routes are, from a technical climbing perspective ...

Few of the nearly 100 routes up El Capitan have been free-climbed, meaning that ropes are used only to catch a climber’s fall — not to aid the ascent. Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson are ...

SAN FRANCISCO >> Two men are roughly halfway through what has been called the hardest rock climb in the world: a free climb of a half-mile section of exposed granite in California’s Yosemite ...

The Second Step is the best known and most difficult ... of the most groundbreaking moments in climbing history, while the subsequent 2018 feature film Free Solo was a global sensation.

The two climbers struggling up the mammoth southeast face of El Capitan in Yosemite were close to joining forces soon after one of them got stuck on the most ... of the hardest free climb in ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Two men are roughly halfway through what has been called the hardest rock climb in the world: a free climb of a half-mile section of exposed granite in California's Yosemite ...