Chris Van Leuven

A fixture in the boulders of Yosemite Valley during the 1990s, Ben Zartman lived off $3,000 a year and climbed full-time before sailing all over

In July 1953, a teenage Jerry Gallwas joined Royal Robbins and Don Wilson for the second ascent of this challenging Yosemite line. Seventy-two years later, Gallwas recalls the climb

On March 26, the west entrance to Yosemite National Park reopened after closing on March 17 due to a rockslide

“We saw big rocks coming down… anywhere from microwave- to mini-fridge-sized, maybe slightly bigger—and they went right over both of us,” Yager recalls

Over November 5 to 7, the duo climbed this iconic and rarely repeated route. We spoke with Connor Herson to learn more

Eighteen years after establishing The Nose, Warren Harding completed one of his final routes—ordering his team to chop bolts and rivets as they climbed

Surf’s Up blends hard aid and loose alpine free climbing

“We were in tennis shoes, t-shirts, Levi’s, had strong arms, and not a hell of a lot of judgment.”

Sébastien Berthe sent the Dawn Wall Free over a 14-day continuous push, topping out on Jan. 31. We caught up with him to learn more about his ascent of the world’s hardest big wall

In addition to freeing The Nose via the 5.13 V9 Schnoz variation—marking a first for the route—Puman also ticked off a laundry list of hard lines, from boulders to big walls