He never expected to have to be airlifted off Half Dome for a tumor he had no idea he was harboring. A year later, he was ...

More than a few hikers have faced dire consequences in pursuit of Yosemite National Park’s iconic Half Dome summit. Some have ...

Driving to Yosemite is dangerous ... a group of Boy Scouts as they prepared to ascend the cables to the top of Half Dome. What impressed me was that each scout was wearing a harness with lanyard ...

It is those cables that guide hikers to the summit of Half Dome. While most visitors are content to gaze at the iconic Yosemite site from the valley floor, the best viewing is at Sentinel Bridge ...

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 ...

But the view was quite different: to the east the magnificently jagged tops of the snowy Sierra and to the southwest the totem of Yosemite, Half Dome—but not its oft-pictured side. Rather ...

This story appears in the May 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a bright Saturday morning in September a young man is clinging to the face of Half Dome, a sheer 2,130-foot wall of ...

Mountain Time on the first day of March, people across the world hovered over keyboards and smartphones, ticking away the ...

One of the world's largest granite monoliths, El Capitan, along with Half Dome are also located here. Yosemite Valley is an excellent place for first-time visitors to set up camp as most of the ...

Matthew Stewart started an adventure climbing Half Dome in Yosemite in 2023 just like many fit 28-year-olds would: Prepared, optimistic, excited, and aware. He never expected to have to be ...