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 ...

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 ...

The cables came into being in the late 1800s, after celebrated geologist Josiah Whitney proclaimed the 8,800-foot summit of Half Dome "perfectly inaccessible" and declared it would "never be trodden ...

(CNN) — A hiker fell to his death on Monday while ascending Yosemite National Park's famous Half Dome trail, the US National Park Service said. The hiker was on the trail's Half Dome cables, the park ...

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. - A bucket-list climb to the top of Yosemite National Park’s Half Dome turned to tragedy for a young Arizona woman who fell to her death during a descent forced by a ...