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.

To the editor: I have climbed Half Dome 13 times, descending the cables each time. I have more experience than most, so here is my opinion. (“Want to make Half Dome safer? Remove the climbing cables ...

To the editor: My suggestion for making Half Dome safer is to take the cables down. Not just part of the year, as is done now, but all year. (“After a young woman falls to her death in Yosemite, Half ...

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — A summer rite of passage is underway at Yosemite National Park, where the handrails on Half Dome are in place and hikers began scaling the granite monolith Friday ...

On July 13, during a heavy rainstorm in Yosemite National Park, an Arizona State University student slipped and fell to her death from the Half Dome cables. Park officials did not issue a statement ...

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 ...