Alex Honnold

Few performances are as daunting as the one-person play. That’s why Jake Gyllenhaal had to find a way to conquer that fear when he took on the role of Abe in the second half of “Sea Wall/A Life.”

Making it to the top of El Capitan is a daunting feat even for the most experienced climbers. Selah Schneiter, 10, was practically born to do it. The precocious climber made history last week when she became the youngest person on record to scale the famed, 3,000-foot vertical rock formation in California’s Yosemite National Park.

Making it to the top of El Capitan is a daunting feat even for the most experienced climbers. Selah Schneiter, 10, was practically born to do it. The precocious climber made history last week when she became the youngest person on record to scale the famed, 3,000-foot vertical rock formation in California’s Yosemite National Park.

Days after two of the world’s most celebrated rock climbers twice set astonishingly fast records on the biggest wall in Yosemite National Park, they did it again Wednesday, breaking a mark compared with track’s four-minute mile. Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell scaled El Capitan’s 3,000-foot sheer granite wall in 1:58:07, said photographer Austin Siadak, who is documenting the climb for...

Two climbers have set a speed record for ascending the famous Nose route of El Capitan.

The East Bay rock climbing legend who survived a terrible fall last week on Yosemite’s El Capitan told NBC Bay Area the details of his harrowing and painful hours-long predicament. Terry McSweeney reports.

A well known, record-holding rock climber and East Bay resident spent the night on the wall of El Capitan at Yosemite National Park after he fell and was hung upside down Thursday afternoon. Rescue crews with a helicopter worked to extricate Hans Florine, 53, off the wall Friday morning and eventually took him to a hospital in Fresno, where he...

An elite rock climber became the first to climb alone to the top of the massive granite wall known as El Capitan in Yosemite National Park without using ropes or safety gear.