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 frequently.

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) – The hike up the granite monolith Half Dome in Yosemite National Park is one of the most iconic in the nationwide system, but on Friday officials announced approval of a plan that ...

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — The cable handrails that allow visitors to pull themselves up Half Dome in Yosemite National Park are joining a long list of other sites on the National Register ...

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. - Anthony Frost was just 200 feet from the summit of Half Dome when he lost his nerve. "My heart was pounding. My boots started slipping, and that kind of spooked me," ...

Kirk Keeler surveyed the scene from a vantage point he hadn’t reached since his 20s. To the north he saw the flattened granite of Clouds Rest and in the distance the jagged pyramid of Cathedral Peak.