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.

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, ...

People ask John DeGrazio all the time if summiting Half Dome in Yosemite National Park gets old or at least less exciting. The owner of YExplore Yosemite Adventures guides clients on the hike to the ...

Visitors to Yosemite National Park hoping to hike its famed Half Dome Trail will have to wait at least one week due to heavy snowpack conditions. Hikers who were hoping to scale Yosemite National Park ...

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Two skiers navigated a thin layer of snow with no margin for error down the precipitous shoulder of Half Dome in Yosemite ...

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — 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 ...

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 ...

PHOENIX (KPHO/Gray News) - A father in Arizona is grieving after his daughter died while the two were hiking Half Dome at Yosemite National Park. Jonathan Rohloff and his daughter, 20-year-old Grace ...

I'd just hiked the grueling 7.5 miles from Yosemite Valley up to the base of the storied Half Dome cables, and though I'd researched the trek plenty, my first reaction to seeing the cables up close ...

Jason Torlano started dreaming about skiing down Half Dome — rising nearly 5,000 feet above his childhood home in Yosemite Valley — after moving to Yosemite National Park at age 5. This week, at age ...