But while descending the Half Dome cables during a sudden thunderstorm and downpour, she slipped on a wet portion of the rock ...

Mountains can never be made completely safe ... But there’s no real reason, besides bureaucratic stubbornness, why the Half Dome cables need to be so dangerous. It’s a wonder more people ...

Half Dome in 1977, practically 40 years ago ... What has changed though, radically, is the way in which people fly off mountains nowadays, and back then BASE Jump, wingsuit flying and Para Base were ...

The essential gear that Jason Torlano and Zach Milligan used to survive their historic ski descent of Half Dome to the Yosemite Valley floor. When looking through the photos of Jason Torlano and ...

Grace Rohloff/Facebook An Arizona college student died after she slipped down the face of Half Dome in Yosemite National ... had just summited the mountain — a “bucket list” moment for ...

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Kirk Keeler decided to channel his energy into a bigger cause – raising awareness about the importance of cancer screenings by scaling Half Dome.

To get to a view 1,000 feet higher than Half Dome (and without those cables), you'll have to scramble up rocks at its ridge, where it seems as if the clouds sit upon the top of this mountain ...