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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“People will want to get back up there and climb it,” said Stock, who noted that the route — the first established on Half Dome’s sheer face — will still be open as Yosemite’s climbing ...

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.

That would, undoubtedly, make the final push up Half Dome less perilous — but as the ... and Washington almost 23 years ago. We need a route to safer chemotherapy. Oncologist David Kerr has ...

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.

On my free solo of Half Dome, I got more uneasy as I climbed. By the middle of the wall, at the true crux of the route 1,000 feet up, I was so scared that I impulsively decided to change my path ...