Emily Harrington speaks to PEOPLE exclusively about her history-making ascent of El Capitan in 2020, becoming the first woman to free climb it under 24 hours Five years ago, Emily Harrington made ...

Few climbers fully commit to free soloing. Those who do see it as equal parts art, meditation, and escape—despite the risks.

For 92 minutes on a clear Sunday morning in Taipei, thousands of spectators with jittery nerves stared upwards, while people across the world were glued to their screens, as famed climber Alex Honnold ...

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK (AP) -- Mountain climber Emily Harrington has become the fourth person and the first woman to free-climb the face of Yosemite National Park's El Capitan, a 3000-foot sheer ...

FameFamed rock climber Alex Honnold masterfully ascended one of the world’s tallest skyscrapers in Taiwan’s capital without a rope. "Sick," he said, standing at the top of Taipei 101 with a panoramic ...

Rock climber Alex Honnold plans to scale the facade of what was once the world's tallest building – live on Netflix. But not all are impressed by the idea."It should be within my comfort zone," Alex ...

"The people before me who have achieved this are kind of like some of my ultimate heroes in rock climbing," Emily Harrington tells PEOPLE (the TV Show!) Professional rock climber Emily Harrington has ...

Emily Harrington climbed alongside Alex Honnold of Free Solo fame Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2019, and her work has previously ...

A pair of Americans completed what had long been considered the world’s most difficult rock climb Wednesday, using only their hands and feet to scale a 3,000-foot vertical wall on El Capitan, the ...

Free solo climber Alex Honnold is about to risk his life by scaling the Taipei 101 — one of the world’s tallest buildings — on Netflix this week. Netflix, of course, has expanded its live event ...