This is the magic of Yosemite: It forges heroes. No matter where they come from, from the Alps to the Andes, all self-respecting rock climbers yearn to make a pilgrimage to "the valley" to measure ...

The beauty of the valley left many visitors in awe, with its waterfalls, rock features and the Merced River. Unlike some other popular national parks, Yosemite National Park doesn't require a ...

A prominent feature of the Yosemite Valley, this granite rock face rises up 4,737 feet above the valley floor (8,844 feet above sea level). In 1875, George Anderson scaled the rock face and ...

For most routes here though, the rule of thumb here is to wait for one to two days after it rains to let the rock dry. During much of the year, Yosemite Valley's granite is slick due to glacier ...

In fact, many of Yosemite’s spectacular rock features, including Yosemite Valley itself, were carved out by ice, more specifically glaciers, over millions of years. “These types of events do h ...

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 ...

the most popular big-wall route up the unmistakable 3,000-foot cliff that greets people entering Yosemite Valley. By the evening, they’d strung their banner tight across the sheer rock face ...

This is a list of climbs I've done in Yosemite Valley. By "done" I mean I've at least been on them; sometimes I never made the anchors, but most times I did. Following Karl Baba's notation, # ...