In the world of rock climbing, California’s Yosemite National Park has long been a Mecca – a surreal landscape of soaring granite walls that has drawn generations of climbers to drop out of society ...

Dramatic video footage from ‘Valley Uprising’ on Discovery Channel shows how Dean Potter survives harrowing mishap. Dean Potter, a free-spirited daredevil whose climbing, BASE jumping and highlining ...

An excerpt from the award-winning film 'Valley Uprising' that documents one of the most legendary moments in Yosemite climbing history: the 1977 drug plane crash. One of the most legendary moments in ...

The Santa Maria High School Alpine Club hosted its second movie night this semester focused on a documentary of the history ...

As two climbers attempt Yosemite's most daunting cliff face, documentarian Nick Rosen, co-writer and co-director of Valley Uprising, explains the... A Half-Century Of Battles For The Biggest Rock ...

Thompson said “Valley Uprising” has already won numerous outdoor adventure film awards. “But then, the directors sold the rights to the Discovery Channel to broadcast it,” Thompson added. “So for this ...

In winter 1977, a Lockheed Lodestar with over two tons of high-grade marijuana in its hold crashed in Lower Merced Pass Lake in Tuolumne. Alerted by a friendly park ranger, Yosemite's Camp 4 emptied ...

Last week, I went to watch the incredible Valley Uprising documentary, which is an epic two-hour runthrough of the evolution of climbing in Yosemite Valley. In addition to lycra-clad hippies making a ...

VISITORS Katie Lee, the grande dame of Western folksingers, river runners and environmentalists, graced us in early April with her merry grin and insouciant manner. She’s been updating her 1998 elegy ...

Right now, two men are hanging out on the side of a 3000-foot cliff in Yosemite National Park, hoping to make history. For the last two weeks, they've been free climbing the Dawn Wall of El Capitan.