A recent fatal accident on the hiking route up Half Dome in Yosemite ... season. Rock climbers also use the cables. The method is considered the easiest, safest way to descend after climbing ...

To the editor: I have climbed Half Dome ... Yosemite Valley is dangerous (as we did once). Driving to Yosemite is dangerous. Get over it. There are plenty of signs that tell you to stay off the ...

A prominent feature of the Yosemite Valley, this granite rock face rises up 4,737 ... When you finally reach the base of the Half Dome, a steep rocky climb finally takes you up the Half Dome ...

Clinging for life to a cold steel cable, high on a nearly vertical rock face ... on the climbing cables that mark the final ...

Interview with American climber Alex Honnold after his immense and fast solo of the Yosemite Triple in ... rope solo 2 short sections of aid climbing (getting to the Boot and the end of the Great Roof ...

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Jacopo Larcher talks about his first climbing trip to Yosemite Valley, USA with Barbara Zangerl ... After entering the valley and after having driven through kilometers of forests, Half Dome and the ...

placing his own gear for protection on the rock. His parents also introduced him to big-wall climbing—multi-pitch routes that cover thousands of vertical feet. Herson was just 12 years old when he ...

For its size it's possibly the most famously photographed small rock in the West ... Sierra and to the southwest the totem of Yosemite, Half Dome—but not its oft-pictured side.

This is a list of climbs I've done in Yosemite Valley. By "done" I mean I've at least been on them; sometimes I never made the anchors, but most times I did. Following Karl Baba's notation, # ...

For two years, Keeler went through chemotherapy treatments that left him weak and nauseated, but on one of his “rare good days” he hatched the idea of climbing Yosemite’s Half Dome.

As one of the most recognizable features of Yosemite ... (the Wilderness Climbing Permit). The good news is it is free and climbers apply for it in person (unlike Half Dome that's only available ...