The National Park Service has announced that after six years of collaborative negotiations, they have finalized and signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Access Fund.

The newly signed MOU frames a cooperative relationship between the climbing community and the National Park Service. It outlines the common interests that the parties share — such as conservation and planning — as well as how they will work together to reach common goals.

A Springfield elementary student took a shot at being the youngest person ever to climb the largest single piece of granite in the world.

Grant Frisbie, 11 , climbed more than 1,000 feet up the face of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park before high winds turned him and his father back.

One cool morning last September, 23-year-old Alex Honnold tightened his shoes at the base of Half Dome, dipped both hands into his chalk bag, and began climbing—with no rope and no belayer. The practice, known as free soloing, is the sport’s most dangerous discipline, with falls usually being fatal. When Honnold finished the route’s 2,000 feet of glacier-polished granite with a delicate 5.12 crux move, the climbing blogosphere went into frenzied speculation about what might come next.