Yosemite National Park has made permanent a divisive overnight rock climbing permitting system aimed at protecting wilderness and monitoring visitors as the sport has grown rapidly in popularity.

A Yosemite worker who fell to his death while rock climbing in the iconic California park has been identified as a recent high school graduate from Texas. Grant Cline, 18, from Frisco, died in a fall ...

Nature: Yosemite's "firefall" 01:59 Yosemite National Park, Calif. — A popular rock climbing area in Yosemite National Park has been closed because of a crack that's developed in a massive ...

Nov. 28—Could big-wall rock climbing in places like Yosemite Valley be regulated out of existence? That's a question swirling around the climbing community this week in the wake of new proposals ...

A climbing area has been closed in California’s Yosemite National Park as cracking is "actively occurring" along a cliff, according to the National Park Service.

Two American rock climbers from Utah with less-than-household names recently set a new speed record in Yosemite National Park.. On October 20, Tanner Wanish and Mike Vaill, both 32, scaled El ...

Yosemite’s Peregrine Falcon Protection Program protects the birds by temporarily closing off some climbing routes. In its early years, it enlisted rock climbers as a valuable resource for the ...

A woman has been left with a medical bill of more than $600,000 after a rock-climbing accident in Yosemite National Park that broke "nearly every bone in her body." Anna Parsons is a 21-year-old ...

A Yosemite worker who fell to his death while rock climbing in the iconic California park has been identified as a recent high school graduate from Texas. Grant Cline, 18, from Frisco, died in a ...