At age 73, Dierdre Wolownick is continuing to defy gravity, nature, and society’s stereotypes. She’s often referred to as the ...

Alex Honnold climbed El Capitan without protection, the basis of the movie 'Free Solo'. Honnold is now drawn to the allure of ...

Alex Honnold free solo climbing Freerider, El Capitan, Yosemite, USA on 3 June 2017. In doing so he has become the first person to climb El Cap without ropes Planetmountain.com is a site about ...

Planetmountain.com is a site about climbing, mountaineering, trekking, via ferrata, freeriding, ski mountaineering, snowboarding, snowshoeing, and ice climbing on all the mountains of the world. It ...

Alex Honnold and Ueli Steck are among those who ... Since 2007 Caldwell has been working on free climbing a new route near Mescalito on El Cap that may be the world's hardest big-wall free climb.

Alex Honnold free solo climbing El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. (National Geographic/Jimmy Chin) 1. Take incremental steps to broaden your comfort zone Talking about “overcoming fear" is ...

An intimate and unflinching portrait of free solo climber Alex Honnold as he prepares to achieve his lifelong dream – scaling the famous 3,200ft vertical rock formation El Capitan.

Since moving to Las Vegas eight years ago, rock climber Alex Honnold has become all too familiar with the dangers of scaling Nevada’s high mountains. “It’s rare for something like the ...

It's hard for most of us to process what Alex Honnold does. A 30-year-old climber, Honnold is known as the master of a discipline known as free solo climbing, which involves scaling vertical ...