Connor Herson, 21, took a break from classes this fall to free climb this iconic route alongside Tommy Caldwell ...

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 ...

Austrian climber Barbara "Babsi" Zengeri made history this weekend as the first person ever to flash climb a route on El Capitan ... by Alex Honnold's 2017 free solo climb. Flashing a climbing ...

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 ...

But Honnold has never free climbed ... thing in climbing. The Nose means a lot to me personally. It’s been there throughout my entire climbing life. It was my first El Cap route; I aid climbed ...

Babsi Zangerl climbed Freerider (VI, 5.13a) on El Capitan in Yosemite this ... (no rope), highlighted in the movie Free Solo. Larcher, being Zangerl’s climbing partner and having never touched ...

(CNN) — On a vertical rockface like El Capitan, the soaring ... in the Oscar-winning documentary “Free Solo.” Zangerl has lots of experience climbing on El Cap and around Yosemite but ...

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 ...