In February, lucky visitors to Yosemite National Park might be able to spot the gorgeous Firefall phenomenon. But is it worth ...

In this surprising story of the premier rock-climbing venue in the United States ... and consumer culture have shaped climbers’ relations to nature and to each other. Even in Yosemite Valley, a ...

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 ...

This is a list of climbs I've done in Yosemite Valley. By "done" I mean I've at least been on them; sometimes I never made the anchors, but most times I did. Following Karl Baba's notation, # ...

Olmsted Point is where you’ll find dramatic panoramic vistas of the granite cliffs and boulders that form so much of Yosemite ...

This is the magic of Yosemite: It forges heroes. No matter where they come from, from the Alps to the Andes, all self-respecting rock climbers yearn to make a pilgrimage to "the valley" to measure ...

I try to avoid human emotions, if I can. I’m familiar with the main three, of course… hungry, sleepy, angry. But as I stood at the base of El Capitan, the beast of a rock formation in Yosemite ...

At the start of October Nicolas Favresse and Sean Villanueva added a new free route, "The Secret Passage" 5.13c to El Capitan, Yosemite. At the start of October Nicolas Favresse ... It felt like each ...

as always in Yosemite, has its own name. Every pitch is legendary. And marked by good belays. Normally the route is climbed by ascending the first 10 pitches to the Mammoth Terraces to then abseil to ...

A prominent feature of the Yosemite Valley, this granite rock face rises up 4,737 feet above the valley floor (8,844 feet above sea level). In 1875, George Anderson scaled the rock face and ...

If you want to gaze at its 3,000 feet of sheer rock face, the El Capitan Meadow is the place. You'll find the meadow on Northside Drive, near the west end of Yosemite Valley. El Capitan is a big ...