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More and more people are becoming rock climbers, and the economic effects are big in our region. That’s according to a new report from the American...
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Planning a climbing trip in the West? The federal government wants to help.
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A 10-year-old Colorado girl has scaled Yosemite National Park's El Capitan, taking five days to reach the top of the iconic rock formation.Selah Schneiter…
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A Colorado climber died shortly after getting to the top of Mount Everest and achieving his dream of scaling the highest peaks on each of the seven…
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Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson were the first climbers to use only their hands and feet to ascend the nearly 3,000-foot Dawn Wall in a single trip. Ropes were used only to break a fall.
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As two climbers attempt Yosemite's most daunting cliff face, documentarian Nick Rosen, co-writer and co-director of Valley Uprising, explains the park's history of climbs and culture clashes.
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Two rock climbers are close to finishing a hugely ambitious project on El Capitan in the Yosemite Valley — free-climbing the Dawn Wall. They talked to NPR's Melissa Block from the rock face.
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In the climbing world, 1959 is a year marked in controversy. Italian Cesare Maestri and Austrian Toni Egger scaled a seemingly impossible route up the…