a steep rocky climb finally takes you up the Half Dome Cables, a vertical, exposed rock face scalable by two steel cables for the final 400 feet to the summit. If you're afraid of heights or are ...

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

Getty A 93-year-old California man just summited Yosemite’s Half Dome thanks in part ... person ever to climb the iconic piece of rock, according to SFGate. “I didn't fully realize how tricky ...

shoes smeared on mere ripples in the rock, Eminem blasting on his iPod, Alex Honnold is attempting something no one has ever tried before: to climb the Regular Northwest Face route on Half Dome ...

For many athletes, their sport is also what lets them tap into a “flow state” — the sense of calm and happiness that comes ...

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.

Mountain climbing and rock climbing are often considered similar ... and the Regular Northwest Face of Half Dome. Such audacious feats on America’s biggest cliffs have made Alex one of the ...

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.

Resting in the shadows of the Sierra Nevada, Yosemite National Park offers peak tranquility and opportunities to revel in the ...

The student, Angela Uys, 26, reportedly died while climbing Half Dome last Saturday. Uys was a 2014 graduate in biology and human physiology. No further details regarding the accident have been ...

When you think about huge granite rock faces, the first that 99% of climbers think of is undoubtedly "Yosemite"! It is there that big wall climbing was developed ... driven through kilometers of ...