Subscribe today. A recent fatal accident on the hiking route up Half Dome in Yosemite National Park was horrifying and tragic. On July 13, 2024, Grace Rohloff, an Arizona State university student ...

The Half Dome cables in Yosemite National ... recommend that people do not attempt the route when the cables are down." Typically, the cables come up again in May when the park begins issuing ...

“People have totally transformative experiences hiking Half Dome,” said Honnold. “They propose up there, they spread ashes up there. You can pass people more easily (when walking on the ...

Subscribe today. A large section of a classic route up Half Dome fell off and likely left the route unclimbable, Climbing reported Monday. A team of rock climbers on the Regular Northwest Face ...

But in the longer term, the Regular Northwest Face---which was the first established route up Half Dome's sheer cliff face---will probably be OK. "In some ways, the route is almost more simple now ...

This is the third section of the route that has come off since his successful ... plus it was one of the easier routes up Half Dome." Now what was once a relaxing section is a sheer granite ...

In my opinion, adding additional wooden slats to the route would not remove the ... Anyone’s death on Half Dome is a tragedy. Hiking up the last quarter-mile of the quartz monzonite batholith ...

He set his sights in 2022 on climbing Half Dome, not the popular and accessible cable route that most fit hikers can do, but the roped climb up Snake Dike on the edge of Half Dome’s face.

As a counter-point, I’d bring up how the park service built a ranger station and permanent restroom at Little Yosemite Valley on the trail to Half Dome, which is also a wilderness area.

The trail then ventures up the sub dome. When you finally reach the base of the Half Dome, a steep rocky climb finally takes you up the Half Dome Cables, a vertical, exposed rock face scalable by ...