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Professional rock climber Alex Honnold blows on his chalked hands at the Earth Treks gym in Englewood, Colorado. His fear is that maybe his 2017 ropeless climb of El Capitan in Yosemite featured in the spine-tingling, Academy Award-winning film 'Free Solo,' just might be the summit of his career. If that's the case, he's made peace with it. These days, he's just as content taking a safer route in indoor climbing gyms. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert)

It's a classic family history story: your grandfather was raised by feminists in the late 1800s, invented the time-lapse camera, lived in Yosemite National Park where he was a famous photographer and photographer Ansel Adams may have stolen a box of his photographs and claimed them as his own.

FILE - In this undated file photo, Mount Rushmore is shown in South Dakota. From left are George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. The Partners in Preservation Campaign is asking the public to vote on 20 historic sites, including one at Mount Rushmore, that are vying for $2 million in preservation funding. The project at Mount Rushmore seeks $250,000 to restore structural elements of the Borglum View Terrace, where Rushmore sculptor Gutzon Borglum's original studio stood. (AP Photo, File)

The BYU Museum of Art has launched a new exhibit commemorating the centennial anniversary of the U.S. National Park Service.

Grabbing a pack and heading for the mountains is needed refuge for some. But in order to have a good experience, hikers need to pack their backpacks properly. Before the first water bottle or the last granola bar gets loaded in, the right pack must be found.