Exactly 43 miles from the valley floor of Yosemite National Park, in the town of Mariposa, lies a new museum that has more or less been a lifetime in the making.

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The Yosemite Climbing Museum completed a recent renovation, allowing the space to accommodate more guests and exhibits. The museum is located in Mariposa right off the four-way stop at Highway 140.

Caldwell also started climbing big walls in Yosemite as a teenager with his dad. But that was 30 years ago, when rock climbing was much more of a fringe sport.

He shot to prominence in the climbing world in 2007, soloing Yosemite’s Astroman and Rostrum (both 5.11c), matching the great Peter Croft’s achievement from 1987.

Two American rock climbers from Utah with less-than-household names recently set a new speed record in Yosemite National Park. On October 20, Tanner Wanish and Mike Vaill, both 32, scaled El ...