Visitors can't expect to be perfectly safe, especially when climbing an almost vertical rock face. It's tragic that a young ...

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 easily be fatal. So I clenched my fists tighter and inched ...

To climb the Half Dome Cables route, Milligan continues, “I used Kahtoola running crampons with no front points; they’re just stubby microspikes and they’re awesome. Torlano had out-of ...

That climb had gone so smoothly he was certain he could free solo it, despite the route's legendary difficulty. When Half Dome was first climbed, in 1957, it had taken Californian Royal Robbins ...

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 ...

Details the tenth attempt by Jim Erickson and Art Higbee to scale the two thousand-foot-high vertical face of Half Dome in Yosemite National Park. Narrated by Robert Redford.

“I guess Half Dome was the thing that most popped into ... For his part, Everett prepared by climbing stairs in his 17-story apartment building and taking daily walks around Lake Merritt ...

It’s cool, it’s crisp, and if it’s not raining or snowing, this is an excellent time to climb in Yosemite National ... and watched the sunrise behind Half Dome the next morning.

At the end of July, Dean Potter and Hans Florine made what may go down as one of the biggest achievements in the history of climbing in Yosemite. On the evening of Monday, July 26, Dean Potter solo ...