Jacopo Larcher talks about his first climbing trip to Yosemite Valley ... dedicated the last few years to long multi-pitch routes and crack climbing, I still felt quite intimidated by the routes on El ...

This is a list of climbs I've done in Yosemite Valley. By "done" I mean I've at least been on them; sometimes I never made the anchors, but most times I did. Following Karl Baba's notation, # ...

Some personal highlights include the following: - putting up many long free routes in Yosemite Valley, including The Uncertainty Principle 13a on The Sentinel. - free climbing El Cap in a day, via ...

Two climbers are on their way to completing the hardest rock climb in the world - the 3,000ft high El Capitan's Dawn Wall in Yosemite National ... by far the toughest route to the top of the ...

As one of the most recognizable features of Yosemite National Park, El Capitan is one ... Yosemite National Park also has climbing rangers that can assist climbers with routes.

Multipitch trad (traditional) and big walls in Yosemite are my favorite,” Chan wrote on her Stanford website. Chan’s climbing accomplishments included soloing the Zodiac route of El Capitan in ...

At age 15, Herson became the youngest person to free climb the Nose route on El ... to accomplish in Yosemite if he pursued climbing full-time. “Up on the ledge [on El Cap], we mostly discussed ...

Alex Honnold free solo climbing El ... going to attempt El Cap. Alex’s preparations lasted two years and were intricate and extensive. The hardest section of the whole route would be the so ...

One of the world's largest granite monoliths, El Capitan, along with Half Dome are also located here. U.S. News Insider Tip: Traffic is hectic in and out of Yosemite Valley. The National Park ...

In climbing, to “flash” a route is to reach the top on the ... Zangerl has lots of experience climbing on El Cap and around Yosemite but had never previously attempted the 30-plus pitches ...