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 ...

The short film by Carl Boenish that documents the flight carried out by Rich Piccirilli, Jim Hanbury and Brian Johnson from Half Dome (Yosemite) that marked a pivotal moment in the history of BASE ...

Whenever someone dies on Yosemite’s Half Dome while climbing or descending the infamous cables section, I am always surprised. Not surprised it happened. Surprised it doesn’t happen more ...

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.

That first tent, released in 1980 and dubbed the Half Dome, was already a game changer. Then David Mydans got ahold of it. Mydans was a backpacker and climbing bum who got his start at Chouinard ...

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 ...

I have more experience than most, so here is my opinion. ("Want to make Half Dome safer? Remove the climbing cables for good," letters, Aug. 11) The National Park Service does not take the cables ...

“My ski pants double as my ice climbing pants, so they’re filled ... Yosemite-regular Half Dome heroes brought along to survive the strike mission, and make history. To start, Torlano's ...

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 ...

From 2005 to 2015, Half Dome's perilous climb has prompted at least 140 search-and-rescue missions, 290 accidents, and 12 deaths. (This excludes data from 2010, when the park issued a new permit ...