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 ...

Yosemite National Park is facing a severe staffing shortage and the threat of chaos as a result of President Donald Trump's ...

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

When most of us think of landscape photography, the name Ansel Adams comes to mind. After all his view of Half Dome in Yosemite National Park on an April afternoon ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are also a handful of stand-alone restaurants in Yosemite and Half Dome Villages, including the Pizza Patio and The Loft at Degnan's, but overall they are few and far between in the park.

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 ...

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