no harness and no gloves when I easily ascended the Half Dome cables. I see no problem with the cables today. Climbing the ...

Tori was inspired to hike Half Dome when she first visited Yosemite at age six. It was on this trip she first gazed up at its ...

When nature photographer Kirk Keeler was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer two and a half years ago, he made a promise to himself: To climb Yosemite's notoriously challenging Half Dome while he ...

About four million people visit Yosemite ... you should be able to climb harder without a rope because you have less weight, fewer movements," he says. Looking past Half Dome, many routes here ...

Alex, a 28-year-old from Sacramento, California, made headlines in 2008 when he scaled the 2,000-foot northwest face of Half Dome in Yosemite without a rope. Hazel, 24, who grew up climbing in ...

I’ve never enjoyed walking into a gym. Growing up as a fat kid, I have enough traumatic memories around exercise to fill several therapy sessions. On top of the shame I had around my body, I ...

To learn which types of ropes are best for people of varying skill levels, I spoke with experts at national jump rope organizations and competitive collegiate jumpers. From these conversations ...

Photo: Don Sargeant This is a broad term that covers a few different bases. Put simply, rock climbing with ropes can be done indoors or outdoors and usually involves two people, but it can be done in ...

Several years later I started bouldering, which is climbing short, challenging ‘problems’ close to the ground without a rope, and with ... though some people have said: ‘Aren’t you a ...

One of the most important safety procedures that one can do before climbing is tying into the rope and anchor system properly. The knot that is most commonly used for tying into a harness is the ...

On Sept. 7, more than 30 first responders from as far south as Marsing and as far north as Kamiah, converged on the Meadows ...

A daring orangutan cartwheeled, tight-rope-walked and trapezed its way out ... “From there he was able to climb down the tower,” the Toronto Zoo said. The freedom was short-lived, as the ...