Free climb

Alex Honnold

For the first time ever, two men, 30-year-old Kevin Jorgeson and 36-year-old Tommy Caldwell, will ascend one of the world's largest and most difficult cliff-climbing routes in the world using only their hands and feet. They are climbing El Capitan, a 3,000-foot-tall granite monolith in Yosemite National Park in California.

Lynn Hill freeclimbing on El Capitan, Yosemite Valley

Some are easy to quantify and avoid and others are far more complex, but here Jack Geldard explores 8 common climbing accidents and gives some advice on how to avoid them. From rock fall to...

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This film interviewed over 50 climbing legends to tell this story.

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.

What do you do when you can’t climb? You watch climbing documentaries, of course. We’ve compiled a list of our 10 favorite climbing documentaries that are available on Netflix with a subscription or for free on YouTube, plus a few bonus films that cost a few bucks to watch on YouTube but that I could

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