A group of friends were forced to take shelter in a cave during a storm at the top of Yosemite’s most notorious hike -- Half Dome. Two of them were even struck by lightning, but miraculously ...

A group of hikers survived several lightning strikes at Yosemite’s nearly 9,000-foot Half-Dome summit. After about a half hour, the rain subsided. The group decided to leave the cave but ...

The first person to ever summit Half Dome did so in 1875, and in the 44 years that followed, the only way to reach the top was to scale the cliff face with climbing gear. To help non-climbers ...

It is those cables that guide hikers to the summit of Half Dome ... You can still enjoy many of the dome's tamer sections, such as the trip to the top of Nevada Fall. If you are attempting ...

Park rangers recently found evidence pointing to the presence of a black bear at the top of Half Dome, Yosemite officials said. The animals are natural climbers and, unlike people, do not need 425 ...

A famed climber, who lived in a cave at Yosemite National Park for 13 ... for becoming the first two people to descend Yosemite’s Half Dome on skis in February 2021. Milligan grew up in Tucker ...

Kalin, of Oakland, reached the summit of the Half Dome, which rises 8,839 feet above sea level, on Tuesday, KTVU reported. He was accompanied to the top by his 57-year-old son, Jon Kalin ...

A fall from that height — on the climbing cables that mark the final 400-foot ascent to the summit of Yosemite’s Half Dome — could ... and inched toward the top. The only relief came from ...