Emily Harrington wants to be clear: She’s just following in the footsteps of the women who redefined rock climbing. When Lynn Hill used just her hands and feet to scale all 3,000 feet of El Capitan in ...

As a professional rock climber, I’ve spent my career pushing myself to new limits. I’ve won national championships, competed in world cup competitions, and summited some of the most iconic peaks in ...

Her list of physical feats seems almost impossible. Win national sport-climbing competitions starting at the age of 13? Check. Summit Mount Everest? Check. Free-climb El Capitan in under 24 hours?

Climbing El Capitan is a lifetime goal for many climbers. Climbing Half Dome is another. The Yosemite Double links both of ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two of the world’s best rock climbers coped with frightening falls and the deaths of two fellow climbers on the same rock in a monthlong quest to shatter a mythical record in ...

I plan on doing something to get me up El Capitan every day. The biggest one on the list is to dump this weight. I weighed in at 210 today. The first 10 pounds comes off fairly easily. I have done ...

TORONTO (AP) — The important thing to rock climber Alex Honnold is that the movie screen be big. IMAX, whatever. But big. It’s shortly before the Toronto International Film Festival premiere of “Free ...