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 ...

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 ...

A young student told her father her shoes were slipping on the slick granite rock as they descended the Half Dome cable system in Yosemite National Park. Moments later, Grace Rohloff slipped and fell ...

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 ...

YOSEMITE N.P. - Hitting Yosemite's iconic Half Dome anytime soon? Don't forget to pick up after yourself while you're there. The most famous -- or infamous -- part of the hike is the ascent up Half ...

The last rays of light dance across the top of Half Dome in this view from Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times) Grace Rohloff was an athlete who had traversed ...

On July 13, during a heavy rainstorm in Yosemite National Park, an Arizona State University student slipped and fell to her death from the Half Dome cables. Park officials did not issue a statement ...

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. - Anthony Frost was just 200 feet from the summit of Half Dome when he lost his nerve. "My heart was pounding. My boots started slipping, and that kind of spooked me," ...

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 Angeles Times) To the editor: I have climbed Half Dome 13 times, ...

Half Dome and Yosemite Valley in a view from Glacier Point at Yosemite National Park, Calif. (AP Photo/Tracie Cone, File) Clinging for life to a cold steel cable, high on a nearly vertical rock face ...