It’s Never Too Late to Climb That Mountain

By BY TIM NEVILLE from NYT Sports Dierdre Wolownick, whose son, Alex Honnold, is one of the world’s top rock climbers, ascended Yosemite’s El Capitan to celebrate her 70th birthday.https://nyti.ms/3mhyBLv

A Record-Setting Ascent of El Capitan

By BY MARIE FAZIO from NYT Sports Emily Harrington is the first woman to free-climb the Golden Gate route up El Capitan, a 3,000-foot-high monolith in Yosemite National Park, in under 24 hours.https://nyti.ms/3leBda0

Wayne Merry, Climber Who Conquered El Capitan, Dies at 88

By BY DANIEL E. SLOTNIK from NYT Sports In 1958 he and two others became the first to scale a 2,900-foot granite wall in Yosemite National Park in California that many considered practically unclimbable.https://nyti.ms/2P8eeOZ