Free soloing means climbing with no rope or gear, a historic genre that in the late 1970s, through the Yosemite-based John Bachar--at the time nicknamed Mr. Norelco, after a "cordless" electric razor- ...

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Emily Harrington climbed alongside Alex Honnold of Free Solo fame Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2019, and her work has previously ...

On election night, while most Americans were doom-scrolling social media into the wee hours, climber Emily Harrington was feeling optimistic while racking up at the base of El Capitan in Yosemite ...

Professional mountain athlete Emily Harrington scaled the entire 3,000-foot granite wall of Yosemite National Park’s El Capitan last week, becoming the first woman to ever complete a free climb up the ...

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. -- It was a magical moment years in the making: American rock climber Tommy Caldwell pulled himself atop the 3,000-foot wall of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, ...

This past fall, Connor Herson decided to take a four-month break from his studies at Stanford University to go rock climbing. Herson, 21, is pursuing a degree in engineering, but his studies have ...

A pair of Americans completed what had long been considered the world’s most difficult rock climb Wednesday, using only their hands and feet to scale a 3,000-foot vertical wall on El Capitan, the ...

Professional rock climber Emily Harrington free-climbed the Golden Gate route of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park on Nov. 4. She became the first woman to free-climb the 41-pitch route in one day.

The rock climbing wall at the Pottruck Center will now be free to all paid guests and members of the facility. Credit: Kaveen Harohalli Penn Campus Recreation announced that the climbing wall at ...

A climbing gym in St. George is offering free classes every Friday morning to raise awareness of Parkinson’s disease and to ...

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