Fifty years ago, Yvon Chouinard, Tom Frost and Doug Robinson set down an ethic for climbing that emphasized restraint and respect for the rock. In 2022, it’s needed more than ever.

Free Solo, about rock climber Alex Honnold climbing infamous mountain El Capitan without a rope, had us on the edge of our seats.

After a recent speed record up an iconic Yosemite wall, climber Alex Honnold tells us about the nutrition, techniques, and training that made it possible.

His stunning scramble up the 3,000-foot granite wall known as El Capitan, in less than 4 hours, came after meticulous planning and training.

Rock climber Alex Honnold has scaled some of the world's toughest mountains, and he's done it without a rope or harness. The Sacramento native and former UC Berkeley engineering student earned international renown for climbing one of the steepest parts of Yosemite's Half Dome in world record time -- 82 minutes -- and later won Climbing Magazine's "Golden Piton," one of the sport's highest honors. Honnold joins us to talk about tackling some of the world's scariest climbs, and his plans to…

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Alex Honnold on Separate Reality… I am not afraid of heights, but just looking at this gives me vertigo.

Alex Honnold, 33, became the first person to ascend California's El Capitan without ropes last year. Nat Geo has released new incredible stills from its documentary on Honnold ahead of its UK premiere.

Rope soloing is simply the ability to climb alone, yet still have the safety of being attached to a rope (rather than free-soloing). It involves double the amount of work; all the work that your...

See more photos like this in our Extreme Photo of the Week gallery. Twenty-year-old German climber Alexander Megos is quietly making quick work of some of the most famous sport climbing routes in the world. Just earlier this month he ascended Biographie, also known as Realization, one of the most famous sport-climbing routes in the…

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