Yosemite National Park, widely regarded as the birthplace of modern rock climbing has attracted generations of climbers seeking to scale iconic El Capitan and its famous routes. The history of ...

It's now easier to see the evolution of rock climbing on display while on your way to Yosemite National Park. The Yosemite Climbing Museum completed a recent renovation, allowing the space to ...

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 ...

Just as the spring tourist season is getting started, a major rockslide has closed one of the primary routes into Yosemite National Park. The slide came crashing down across both lanes of Highway 140, ...

The closure of state Route 140 into Yosemite National Park is causing temporary setbacks for local communities in surrounding ...

“We’ve dealt with this a lot over the years,” Ken Yager, who runs the Yosemite Climbing Museum in Mariposa, told SFGATE. “I mean, I don’t know how many times this kind of stuff’s ...

Rock climbing is an extreme sport ... requiring climbers to stop and belay at anchor points. “The Nose” in Yosemite National Park is a multi-pitch climb that towers to nearly 3,000 feet ...

Visitors could enjoy a three-and-a-half-hour journey by rail up the Merced River Canyon from Merced to El Portal, just outside what is now Yosemite’s Arch Rock Entrance. Everything changed in ...

Guy McCarthy Oct 25, 2022 Oct 25, 2022 Updated Oct 27, 2022 An 8-year-old boy from Colorado Springs is climbing El Capitan in Yosemite National ... generations of rock climbers around the world.