Sasha DiGiulian free-climbed the roughly 3,000-foot sheer granite wall in Yosemite National Park over the course of 23 days.

Sasha DiGiulian, once the inspiration for a climbing emoji, is now the first woman to free climb El Capitan’s longest route.

Growing up in Alexandria, Virginia, Sasha DiGiulian was destined to scale to great heights. “I went to my brother’s birthday party in the late ’90s at a climbing gym called Sportrock,” DiGiulian told ...

Looking up at the granite wall before me, I feel a mix of nerves and excitement as I tie my harness to the rope. Here, in the rugged wadis – an Arabic word for a deep valley carved into the mountain – ...

Jillian Stannard lay in a hospital bed, her skin peeling off after battling Stevens-Johnson syndrome and fibromyalgia. She could barely eat, and her body rejected the medication prescribed by doctors ...

In the months after she claimed a silver medal in sport climbing at the Paris Olympics, Brooke Raboutou returned to the place where she had once competed as a child prodigy: Arco, Italy. Just outside ...

A woman died Thursday following a rock climbing accident at Lover’s Leap, a popular climbing destination near Lake Tahoe, South Tahoe Now reported. The El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office confirmed to ...

A collaboration between Missoula climbers and rescuers from Ravalli County led to the successful rescue of a Missoula woman who fell in a climbing accident in Blodgett Canyon near Hamilton on Saturday ...

SCOTTSDALE, AZ — Scottsdale and Phoenix firefighters rescued a woman in serious condition after falling on Tom's Thumb trail. The 34-year-old woman was rock climbing at the time and fell approximately ...

YOSEMITE — A prominent Yosemite National Park rock climber was sentenced to life in prison for sexual assaults committed against a woman in the rock-climbing community, prosecutors said Tuesday. The U ...

A 40-year-old woman died when she fell while rock climbing in Rock Canyon, according to Provo police. The woman was climbing with friends in an area known as “The Balcony” on Saturday afternoon when ...