Whenever someone dies on Yosemite’s Half Dome while climbing or descending the infamous cables section, I am always surprised. Not surprised it happened. Surprised it doesn’t happen more frequently.

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 ...

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — A summer rite of passage is underway at Yosemite National Park, where the handrails on Half Dome are in place and hikers began scaling the granite monolith Friday ...

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) – The hike up the granite monolith Half Dome in Yosemite National Park is one of the most iconic in the nationwide system, but on Friday officials announced approval of a plan that ...

An Arizona State University student slipped and fell to her death after she and her father got caught in a sudden storm while hiking in Yosemite National Park. Grace Rohloff, 20, lost her footing on ...

Half Dome cables are back up for the 2019 summer hiking season. Yosemite National Park made the announcement on social media Thursday by posting a photo of a helicopter hovering over the granite dome ...