Free soloing means climbing with no rope or gear, a historic genre that in the late 1970s, through the Yosemite-based John Bachar--at the time nicknamed Mr. Norelco, after a "cordless" electric razor- ...

On the 24th and 25th of June 2025 Belgian climber Siebe Vanhee successfully made the first rope-solo ascent of Voie Petit on Grand Capucin (3838m) in the Mont Blanc massif in France. The 450m ...

In July, Stefano Ragazzo set out to climb a route on Nameless Tower, known as Eternal Flame. This particular route is commonly known as being treacherous and technically difficult. Located in the ...

Italian alpinist Stefano Ragazzo has made the first rope-solo ascent of Eternal Flame on Nameless Tower (6251m) in the Trango Tower group in Pakistan. The most famous big wall at altitude was ...

Covering significant amounts of terrain on long routes in Yosemite and Patagonia demands progressive tactics. The best way for a team to advance quickly and stay warm on big routes is to have both ...

On Tuesday, October 10, Alex Honnold's solo record of the Nose, set in 2010, fell quickly and quietly. By late afternoon, Nick Ehman had outpaced the prior record of 5 hours, 50 minutes, topping out ...

The solo speed record on the Salathé Wall, a climbing route on El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, had stood for 10 years. Then, on May 11a climber from Lake Tahoe named Brant Hysell tagged the tree ...

A popular Alaskan climber has died after falling from Yosemite National Park's El Capitan, marking the third fatality in the park this summer. Balin Miller, 23, died in a climbing accident on ...

Jeanine Girard-Moorman told The Associated Press, “He’s been climbing since he was a young boy, His heart and soul was truly to just climb. He loved to climb and it was never about money and fame.” El ...