The Steck-Salathé Route is a big wall traditional climbing route up Sentinel Rock. The route was first climbed, in extremely hot weather with minimal water...

The Salathé Wall is one of the original big wall climbing routes up El Capitan, a 3,000-foot (900 m) high granite monolith in Yosemite National Park. The...

company The Ferdinand Steck Maschinenfabrik, Swiss manufacturer of specialist road building and railway equipment The Steck-Salathé Route (Sentinel Rock),...

John Salathé, he completed the first ascent of Steck-Salathé Route up the 1,600-foot (490 m) north face of Sentinel Rock in Yosemite Valley. Steck described...

Yosemite problems of the day. Their route, the Steck-Salathé Route is now a classic rock climb. In 1953, Salathé suffered a mental breakdown, abandoned...

1875 (before November 10) John Muir 1946 Salathe Route on southwest face (IV 5.7 A3), FA by John Salathe and Anton Nelson 1957 Northwest Face (VI 5...

if he falls while free soloing. News of the death of Swiss climber Ueli Steck, with whom Alex had climbed, causes Alex to reflect on his own risk-taking...

Derek Hersey died (28 May 1993; age 36) while free soloing the Steck-Salathé Route on Sentinel Rock in Yosemite. Dwight Bishop fell (19 July 2004; age...

Will Stanhope. The Nose (El Capitan), a 5.14a (8b+) route in Yosemite Salathé Wall, a 5.13 (7c+) route in Yosemite Silence, first climb in the world with...

John Salathé joined forces, and using Salathé's new pitons, made the true first ascent via the Lost Arrow Spire Chimney (5.5 A3 or 5.10 A2), a route that...

McDuffie, he pioneered a high mountain route in 1908 from Yosemite National Park to Kings Canyon, roughly along the route of the modern JMT. In 28 days, they...

near-vertical north face of Sentinel Rock. The most famous climbing route is the Steck-Salathé route, which is rated a class 5.10b G A0. Climber Derek Hersey died...

fourteen years. The first free ascent of a main El Cap route, though, was not The Nose, but Salathé Wall. Todd Skinner and Paul Piana made the first free...

Derek Hersey died on 28 May 1993 in an accident while soloing the Steck-Salathé Route without protective gear, on Sentinel Rock in Yosemite National Park...

Jorgeson's successful attempt to create the first-ever big wall free climbing route—which they christened The Dawn Wall—on the historic southeast face (The...

(2000). "Revealing Routes on El Cap: First Ascents". Archived from the original on 2010-02-28. Retrieved 2006-12-30. Roper, Steve; Steck, Allen (1979). Fifty...

themselves spending the night on the route. There have been several accidents on the route and rappel route. Roper, Steve; Steck, Allen (1979). Fifty Classic...

prominent free soloist in Britain and America; died unroped on the Steck-Salathé Route Maurice Herzog (1919–2012) France, leader of the 1950 French Annapurna...

Half Dome. Half Dome can also be reached by the John Muir Trail, but this route is longer and less scenic. However, it is less steep than the Mist Trail...

Midnight Lightning is a 7.62-metre (25.0 ft) high granite bouldering route on the Columbia Boulder in Camp 4 of Yosemite National Park. When first solved...

Walls. Mill Valley, CA: SuperTopo, 2005. ISBN 0-9672391-9-2 Roper, Steve; Steck, Allen (1979). Fifty Classic Climbs of North America. San Francisco: Sierra...

Arrow Spire Tip Midnight Lightning Royal Arches Route Salathé Wall (El Capitan) Steck-Salathé Route (Sentinel Rock) Separate Reality The Nose (El Capitan)...

It is featured in Fifty Classic Climbs of North America. Roper, Steve; Steck, Allen (1979). Fifty Classic Climbs of North America. San Francisco: Sierra...

Arrow Spire Tip Midnight Lightning Royal Arches Route Salathé Wall (El Capitan) Steck-Salathé Route (Sentinel Rock) Separate Reality The Nose (El Capitan)...

State Route 120 (SR 120) is a state highway in the central part of California, connecting the San Joaquin Valley with the Sierra Nevada, Yosemite National...

Arrow Spire Tip Midnight Lightning Royal Arches Route Salathé Wall (El Capitan) Steck-Salathé Route (Sentinel Rock) Separate Reality The Nose (El Capitan)...

California State Route 140 through Merced, further reducing visitor numbers and economic activity in Oakhurst. A new highway route to Yosemite came to...

ethic is to limit the placement of bolts on new routes and to forbid the addition of bolts to existing routes, resulting in distances of 40 feet (12 m) or...

California State Route 41, California State Route 99, and California State Route 168. Yosemite National Park can be accessed by California State Route 41 and Kings...

California State Route 132 between Coulterville and Smith Station at California State Route 120. This road roughly follows part of the route Muir took on...