NPR's Peter Breslow remembers Yosemite rock climber Warren Harding who died last month at the age of 77. Harding was the first person to scale the 3000 ft. nose of El Capitan.

PLATTSBURGH — Award-winning author Kate Messner didn’t plan to write back-to-back “The Trouble with Heroes” and her latest book “First Ascent: The Epic Yosemite Rock-Climbing Rivalry of Royal Robbins ...