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 ...

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.

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.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yosemite spokesman Scott Gediman said. Florine, 53, and partner Alex Honnold set a speed-climbing record in 2012 for ascending the vertical Nose route of El Capitan in two hours and 23 minutes.

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK (AP ... The two expert climbers killed Saturday were speed climbing El Cap's Freeblast route in tandem when one fell and pulled the other 1,000 feet to their deaths ...

On Saturday morning, the dangerous reality of speed climbing was brought into focus when two veteran Yosemite climbers, Tim Klein and Jason Wells, fell 1,000 feet to their deaths from the lower pi ...

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 ...

“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 ...