A chunk of rock "the size of an apartment building" fell off the granite face of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, killing one person and injuring another on the mountain at the height of climbing season, officials and witnesses said.

The inside story of one of the toughest endurance tests there is, the Dawn Wall climb, by Andy Cave

Two Americans have completed what was considered the world’s most difficult rock climb, by scaling a 910m vertical wall on El Capitan.