Nate Vince, a park staffer whose job was just terminated, unfurled a giant upside-down flag on the side of the rock dome.

The Yosemite Big Wall permit program now requires climbers ... The Nose has beautiful golden rock with cracks you can sink your hands into. One section looks like Texas; another resembles a ...

I’d stay around Arch Rock. The Yosemite West near Glacier Point option I gave you is another excellent location. After that, ...

Our plan was to go to Yosemite Valley, but a phone recording for updated road conditions said chains were required on the Big ...

A photo of an American flag hung upside down from Yosemite National Park's El Capitan rock face. Taken by Brittany Colt, www.brittanycolt.com, @brittanycolt. Brittany Colt She said she doesn't ...

Yosemite is home to giant sequoia trees and a haven for myriad wildlife species. El Capitan, a 3,000-foot (914-meter) wall of sheer granite and possibly the world’s most fabled rock face ...

If you want to gaze at its 3,000 feet of sheer rock face, the El Capitan Meadow is the place. You'll find the meadow on Northside Drive, near the west end of Yosemite Valley. El Capitan is a big ...

Jacopo Larcher talks about his first climbing trip to Yosemite Valley, USA with Barbara Zangerl, during which they repeated El Nino (5.13c, 800m) on El Capitan and other granite big wall climbs. When ...

By Michael Levenson A small group of protesters hung an inverted American flag — historically used as a sign of distress — off the side of El Capitan, a towering rock formation in Yosemite ...