A massive sheet of rock fell from the vertical face of Half Dome in Yosemite National Park, making one of the most popular routes attempted by climbers in North America even more challenging, park ...

Clinging for life to a cold steel cable, high on a nearly vertical rock face in the Sierra Nevada, the soles of my hiking shoes simply could not find traction. Again and again, as my forearms trembled ...

John Muir called Half Dome “the most beautiful and sublime of all the wonderful Yosemite rocks.” In the 1860s, the California Geological Society deemed Half Dome “a perfectly inaccessible [peak] which ...

Climbing El Capitan is a lifetime goal for many climbers. Climbing Half Dome is another. The Yosemite Double links both of ...

To the editor: My suggestion for making Half Dome safer is to take the cables down. Not just part of the year, as is done now ...

To the editor: I have climbed Half Dome 13 times, descending the cables each time. I have more experience than most, so here is my opinion. (“Want to make Half Dome safer? Remove the climbing cables ...

Kirk Keeler surveyed the scene from a vantage point he hadn’t reached since his 20s. To the north he saw the flattened granite of Clouds Rest and in the distance the jagged pyramid of Cathedral Peak.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A 2,400-ton chunk of granite broke loose last week from the towering Half Dome formation in Yosemite National Park, altering one of North America's most popular rock-climbing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hikers use cables to make their way toward the Half Dome summit in Yosemite National Park in 2015. (Marc Martin / Los Angeles ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Half Dome cables span the last 400 feet of an eight-mile hike from Yosemite Valley to the top of Half Dome. (Jack Dolan / Los ...