Renowned rock climber Alex Honnold has smashed the speed record for solo-climbing the longest route on El Capitan, the prominent cliff in Yosemite Valley where the world’s elite big-wall ...

The route includes 2,448m of climbing and 77 pitches connected ... The post Climbers Smash Alex Honnold’s Yosemite Triple Crown Speed Record appeared first on Explorersweb.

Visiting a Yosemite climbing camp today ... His dream is to take speed climbing to the Himalaya. "No technical route on an 8,000-meter peak has been done in Alpine style," he says, meaning ...

On Wednesday, climbers Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell set a new speed record climbing The Nose in Yosemite in 2 hours, 10 minutes, 15 seconds. The previous record was held by Brad Gobright and ...

You don't have to be a climber to know of Alex Honnold. If fact, you don't need to know a thing about climbing to know who this legend is. Among the general pop ...

Olympic bronze medalist Sam Watson broke his own world record in speed climbing twice on Saturday. Watson, 19, climbed a ...

On Monday 9 October Thomas and Alexander Huber set a new speed record on The Nose, El Capitan, Yosemite, climbing the route in 2:45:45 and beating the old record by over 3 minutes. The news spread ...

Alex Honnold topping out on The Nose on El Capitan, Yosemite, during his record breaking ascent with Tommy Caldwell on 06/06/2018 Planetmountain.com is a site about climbing, mountaineering, trekking, ...

This stuff is collected from assorted sources; it's accuracy is both a function of my memory and the honesty of the climbers involved. A better site for speedclimbing records is Hans Florine's ...

GoPro Mountain Games organizers and USA Climbing announced today that Olympic athletes have signed up to compete in the debut ...