Visitors can't expect to be perfectly safe, especially when climbing an almost vertical rock face. It's tragic that a young ...

The trail then ventures up the sub dome. When you finally reach the base of the Half Dome, a steep rocky climb finally takes you up the Half Dome Cables, a vertical, exposed rock face scalable by ...

I have more experience than most, so here is my opinion. ("Want to make Half Dome safer? Remove the climbing cables for good," letters, Aug. 11) The National Park Service does not take the cables ...

America's national parks are packed full of breathtaking natural wonders. Whether you're climbing Half Dome in Yosemite or waiting for a herd of buffalo to cross the road in Yellowstone ...

Details the tenth attempt by Jim Erickson and Art Higbee to scale the two thousand-foot-high vertical face of Half Dome in Yosemite National Park. Narrated by Robert Redford.

Jacopo Larcher talks about his first climbing trip to Yosemite Valley ... After entering the valley and after having driven through kilometers of forests, Half Dome and the profile of The Nose finally ...

It is located on the East Face of Washington Column, way down in the valley, right in front of Half Dome. This is often called "The best 5.8 hand crack in Yosemite Valley." The climbing consists of ...

From 2005 to 2015, Half Dome's perilous climb has prompted at least 140 search-and-rescue missions, 290 accidents, and 12 deaths. (This excludes data from 2010, when the park issued a new permit ...