Free soloing means climbing with no rope, a genre that verged into American consciousness in the 1970s. In 2018 it blew up, with Alex Honnold's mind-bending solo of El Capitan and the award ...

Alex Honnold Tackles Frigid Mt. Vinson. Whether it rock or ice, Alex can climb. As an accomplished climber in traditional ...

Alex Honnold, a revered rock climber known for his free solo ascents, speaks on a panel discussing outdoor recreational access, use, and funding obstacles at Refuge Climbing and Fitness center in ...

Over the past year, I have joined the rapidly increasing community taking up climbing: whether at indoor gyms or outdoor ...

Jeff Smoot begins his latest book, titled All and Nothing: Inside Free Soloing, by describing a moment in the mid-1980s when his life nearly came to an end. Back then, Smoot was one of America’s ...

In the last several weeks, two free-solo climbing deaths were reported that were particularly unnerving, in large part because of what climbing media focused on before and after these fatalities.

Honnold rose to fame via the Academy Award-winning National Geographic documentary Free Solo, chronicling his jaw-dropping and historic free-solo ascent of Yosemite rock formation, El Capitan.Also ...

Alex Honnold — who specializes in "free solo" rock climbing, among the most dangerous athletic pursuits — has kids but says they won't stop him pursuing his passion.

"Resistance Climbing," which appeared in this year's Reel Rock and which I'm about to argue is one the most important climbing films of the last few years, tells a relatively simple and familiar ...

A well-known Boulder climbing club that specializes in quick and rope-free ascents of Boulder’s famous tilted Flatirons has been jolted by the death of a member who fell 500 feet to her death in ...

A 26-year-old woman from Boulder, Colorado, died after falling approximately 500 feet while free-solo climbing a ridge in the state’s Rocky Mountain National Park on Sunday, the park said.

A 26-year-old woman died Sunday while free-solo climbing in Rocky Mountain National Park. Her name is being withheld until next of kin are notified.