The 31-year-old Belgian crusher Sébastien Berthe has become the fourth person in the world to send The Dawn Wall in Yosemite.

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 ...

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.

Advertising isn’t allowed in the park, but climbers temporarily draping a banner from El Capitan isn’t unheard of. In one high-profile instance in 2022, a father-son team that completed a ...

American climbers Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson report directly from El Capitan in Yosemite with updates about their progress on what has become known as the immensely difficult Mescalito Dawn ...

Belgian climber Sébastien Berthe has made the fourth free ascent of the Dawn Wall on El Capitan in Yosemite, USA. First ...

Called Tutokanula by the Ahwahneechee people, El Capitan is one of the greatest areas in the world for climbing. Experienced rock climbers can often be seen clinging to the side of El Capitan at ...

Yudai Suzuki is one of those Japanese climbers who pursue excellence in modern exploratory alpinism by keeping an ...

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 ...

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 ...