Covering significant amounts of terrain on long routes in Yosemite and Patagonia demands progressive tactics. The best way for a team to advance quickly and stay warm on big routes is to have both ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Two climbers who plunged to their deaths from El Capitan were using a risky technique known as simul-climbing to increase their speed and may have neglected to attach their rope to an ...

Shortly after Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell broke the speed record on the Nose route in Yosemite last week, I spoke with John Long, who made the first one-day ascent of the Nose in 1975. “As this ...

The first pitch of High Exposure is moderate, 180 feet of 5.4 climbed in either two short or one long pitch to the Grand Traverse or “GT” ledge under a large roof. Pitch 2 is the goods, 60 feet of 5.6 ...

A man who was simul-climbing with a companion on the Redgarden Wall rock formation in Eldorado Canyon State Park on Saturday morning injured his head after he fell 80 to 100 feet and is listed in ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Two climbers who plunged to their deaths from El Capitan were using a risky technique known as simul-climbing to increase their speed and may have neglected to attach their rope to an ...