Two rock climbers are close to finishing a hugely ambitious project on El Capitan in the Yosemite Valley — free-climbing the Dawn Wall. They talked to NPR's Melissa Block from the rock face.

Pair are the first to free-climb the nearly vertical El Capitan's "Dawn Wall." — -- An impossible dream was realized today for Yosemite climbers Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson, as they ...

Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson celebrated on the top of the world — -- The two U.S. rock climbers who successfully climbed the 3,000-foot vertical wall of El Capitan in Yosemite National ...

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. -- A pair of Americans on Wednesday completed what had long been considered the world's most difficult rock climb, using only their hands and feet to ascend a 3,000 ...

Yosemite is mecca for climbers around the world because of its vast array of beautiful soaring granite walls and peaks. El Cap, though, looms largest and offers 58 distinct routes.

Kevin Jorgeson, in yellow, and Tommy Caldwell, in green hug at the summit after completing their free climb of the Dawn Wall at El Capitan in Yosemite National Park on Jan. 14.

Daring climbers attempt to scale Yosemite's El Capitan 01:49. His partner, Tommy Caldwell, made it past Pitch 15 last weekend and has been waiting for Kevin to catch up with him at a section ...

After 19 nerve-wracking days inching their way up the 3,000-foot granite face of El Capitan’s Dawn Wall in Yosemite ... difficult to grip the rock, the two men would often climb at night ...

Two rock climbers were killed Saturday morning when they fell from El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, officials said. The two fell about 8:15 a.m. while climbing the Freeblast route on the ...

Kevin Jorgeson climbs what has been called the hardest rock climb in the world: a free climb of El Capitan, the largest monolith of granite in the world. YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. -- Two ...