On 5 July John Bachar left us. He was 52 years old and he left us while doing what he could never do without: climbing. Or better still, climbing on his own, without a rope. Bachar was certainly the ...

Free soloing means climbing with no rope or gear, a historic genre that in the late 1970s, through the Yosemite-based John Bachar--at the time nicknamed Mr. Norelco, after a "cordless" electric razor- ...

Free solo climber John Bachar was killed Sunday when he fell from a rock near Mammoth Lakes. According to the Mono County Sheriff’s Office, Bachar, 51, fell from Dike Wall, a popular climbing area ...

As a recreational rock climber and mountaineer, I’ve always seen my work on environmental issues as a natural extension of that passion for the outdoors, and also part of a long tradition: climbers ...

THE rocks of the California mountains, in the Joshua Tree National Monument and the Yosemite Valley, rise in polished granite towers from the scrubby floor. For most of the daylight hours, the ...

John Bachar, a rock climber who inspired awe as a daredevil, condescension as an anachronism and eventually respect as a legend, fell to his death last Sunday from a rock formation near his California ...

John Bachar, a legendary figure in the obscure and close-knit world of rock climbing, died Sunday after a fall near his home in Mammoth Lakes, Calif. He was 52. Bachar perished after falling while ...

John Bachar died Sunday at 51, a young man by the standards of normal men and astonishingly old for a man who lived the life of John Bachar. Bachar was a free-solo rock climber, one of the most famous ...

Video by Kevin Jaramillo of Hayden Kennedy and Ivo Ninov on the famous rock climb Bachar - Yerian (5.11c R/X) at Tuolumne Meadows, Yosemite, USA. There are few routes in the USA which command as much ...