Two weeks have passed since they last stepped on horizontal ground, but Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson are still clutching to El Capitan - the sheer marble monolith in Yosemite National Park.

Climber Alex Honnold stood comfortably on a ledge on the face of El Capitan, some 2,500 feet above the valley floor of Yosemite National Park — and without a rope. He shouted up to the ...