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Seemingly Impossible: Woman Frees El Cap 3 Months After Learning to Crack Climb

A lot of climbers dream of sending on El Cap as soon as they throw their first hand jam. For Soline Kentzel, the dream became real at lightspeed.

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Duo Unlocks Fresh Tactics to Free Climb El Cap in a Day, Sans Support

At midnight on April 10, two Yosemite climbers made a one-day free ascent of El Cap's 'Freerider' in rare, unsupported style.

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The Super-Burly Metolius Safe Tech: The World’s Safest Climbing Harness?

We ran the Metolius Safe Tech climbing harness ragged — or tried to — from long, hot bolt clipping sessions to multipitch trad outings.

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Seb Berthe Bails on ‘The Dawn Wall’ After Long Effort

Belgian climber Sébastien Berthe’s ambitious effort to send the world’s hardest multipitch route in a season has come to an end.

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Climbing Big Cracks, Like Life, Is Suffering: Watch This Brutal Climb

In March 2022, Mari Salvesen flashed a fabled Indian Creek test piece. She's the first woman and only the second person to pull it off.  

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