Emily Harrington climbed alongside Alex Honnold of Free Solo fame Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2019, and her work has previously ...

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK (AP) -- Mountain climber Emily Harrington has become the fourth person and the first woman to free-climb the face of Yosemite National Park's El Capitan, a 3000-foot sheer ...

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP/CBS13) — Emily Harrington, a mountain climber from Placer County, has become the fourth person, and the first woman, to free-climb Yosemite National Park's El ...

Free-climbing is when climbers scale using only their hands and feet, supported by ropes to prevent them from falling, which they rig in sections.

Honnold, 40, was the first person ever to free solo climb the 900m El Capitan rock formation in Yosemite National Park — a ...

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- ...

A pair of Americans completed what had long been considered the world’s most difficult rock climb Wednesday, using only their hands and feet to scale a 3,000-foot vertical wall on El Capitan, the ...

This past fall, Connor Herson decided to take a four-month break from his studies at Stanford University to go rock climbing. Herson, 21, is pursuing a degree in engineering, but his studies have ...

It's been several years since renown free-solo climber Alex Honnold became a national sensation in the hit documentary Free Solo. For his next feat, he's going to attempt a new challenge in the form ...

Professional mountain athlete Emily Harrington scaled the entire 3,000-foot granite wall of Yosemite National Park’s El Capitan last week, becoming the first woman to ever complete a free climb up the ...