In Yosemite National Park, granite walls rise straight from the valley floor. El Capitan is the park's most legendary cliff - a vertical mile of stone that draws climbers from around the world to test ...

A student from the University of Pennsylvania died in a rock climbing accident in Namibia, southern Africa on Sunday. Oliver Pacchiana, an Engineering major and Junior at the school, was studying ...

German biathlon champion Laura Dahlmeier has died on a mountain peak in northern Pakistan following a climbing accident, and efforts are underway to retrieve her body, a local government spokesman ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, where a climber died in a fall earlier this month. (Sam Hill/SFGATE) In Yosemite National ...

A 31-year-old Seattle man was killed in a rock climbing accident in the Mazama area. The Okanogan County Sheriff's Office says the wife of Ryan Alan Murray Triplett called on Monday afternoon to ...

It's unlikely that anyone had rock climbed at Devil's Lake State Park more times than Peter Cleveland. The 84-year-old climber, considered somewhat of a legend in the Midwest climbing community, lived ...

DENVER (KDVR) — A climbing accident on Saturday in Idaho Springs left one person dead. The Idaho Springs Police Department said around 3:05 p.m., emergency responders from the department, in ...

IDAHO SPRINGS, Colo. (KDVR) — The woman who died in a climbing accident over the weekend has been identified. “I’ve been here for about four and a half years, this is the first time we’ve had ...

Brad Gobright was a remarkable rock climber who fell 1,000 feet to his death in northern Mexico as he and fellow climber Aidan Jacobson had spent two days climbing the face of Sendero Luminoso. He ...

In Yosemite National Park, granite walls rise straight from the valley floor. El Capitan is the park's most legendary cliff - a vertical mile of stone that draws climbers from around the world to test ...