It’s a love that drew her to California’s Yosemite National Park in June ... set the new female world record for speed on the climb, ascending in 10 hours and 19 minutes.

Rock climbers Dean Potter and Sean Leary broke the 2-year-old speed record climbing up the Nose route on El Capitan in Yosemite National Park on Nov. 6, scaling the giant granite monolith in 2 ...

Besides, they already have a new Yosemite climbing objective ... “It will be even bigger than the speed record on the Triple Crown,” Wanish said. “I can tell you that.” ...

It was Caldwell’s first foray into speed-climbing, but certainly not his first time in Yosemite. In 2005, Caldwell and Beth Rodden became the third and fourth people to free-climb the Nose (free ...

The pair broke the record for speed climbing the Nose on El Capitan in Yosemite, scaling to the top in a remarkable 2 hours, 19 minutes, and 44 seconds, beating the previous standing record by 4 ...

El Capitan in Yosemite is one of rock climbing’s holy grails.AP Two experts were speed climbing in that manner on El Cap’s Freeblast route Saturday when one fell and pulled the other 1,000 ...

Alex Honnold solos the Nose on El Capitan in California's Yosemite National Park. Honnold and climbing partner Hans Florine held the previous speed record for the route at 2:23:46. BG: We were ...

“That’s because I’ve fallen while speed climbing before, but he looked very solid so it didn’t give me much pause.” A Yosemite Search and Rescue crew is investigating the ...

A giant sheet of granite has fallen from Half Dome, making it even harder to ascend the Yosemite National Park ... "What used to be relatively easy climbing has gotten much more difficult ...

Hans Florine, who has held the speed record for the climb on and off between 1990 and ... seemed to be in much better condition than I was." Yosemite is mecca for climbers around the world because ...

That's because I've fallen while speed climbing before, but he looked very solid so it didn't give me much pause.'' A Yosemite Search and Rescue crew is investigating the accident, but climbing ...