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 ...

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 ...

Grace Rohloff/Facebook The Arizona college student who died after slipping down the Half Dome in Yosemite National Park on Saturday, July 13, had celebrated reaching the summit with her father ...

Grace Rohloff/Facebook An Arizona college student died after she slipped down the face of Half Dome in Yosemite National Park during an unexpected rainstorm earlier this month. Grace Rohloff ...

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 ...

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 ...