YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. -- It was a magical moment years in the making: American rock climber Tommy Caldwell pulled himself atop the 3,000-foot wall of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. American climber Sasha DiGiulian has become the first woman to free-climb El Capitan's longest route — a journey she said ended up ...

Emily Harrington is being celebrated for becoming the fourth woman to free-climb Yosemite National Park‘s famous El Capitan within a day. And she’s the first woman to do so via a very challenging ...

One of two climbers attempting a grueling assent up a half-mile of sheer granite in California's Yosemite National Park is making a push to catch his partner. Thirty-year-old Kevin Jorgeson has been ...

After 18 days and 3,000 vertical feet, Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson completed the first ever free climb of Yosemite’s Dawn Wall on Wednesday. The route is technically difficult and extremely long ...

After 19 days of climbing up a 3,000-foot rock face, gripping at granite sometimes no thicker than a dime, Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson reached the top of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. OK ...

American climber Sasha DiGiulian has become the first woman to free-climb El Capitan's longest route — a journey she said ended up being the "most formative and challenging climb" of her career. "When ...