Are the Half Dome cables worth it? Climber Alex Honnold, of Free Solo fame, thinks so. “People have totally transformative experiences hiking Half Dome,” he says. “They propose up there ...

The trail then ventures up the sub dome. When you finally reach the base of the Half Dome, a steep rocky climb finally takes you up the Half Dome Cables, a vertical, exposed rock face scalable by ...

Yosemite National Park has no shortage of stunning hikes. This one, however, is the most iconic and dangerous of all. Are you ...

His parents also introduced him to big-wall climbing—multi-pitch routes that cover thousands of vertical feet. Herson was just 12 years old when he first climbed Yosemite’s 2,000-foot Half Dome ...

American climber Alex Honnold has soloed The Phoenix (5.13a ... Do you ever feel afterwards "wow, that was perhaps a step too far"? Half Dome was maybe a little much for me, but both of these solos ...

From 2005 to 2015, Half Dome's perilous climb has prompted at least 140 search-and-rescue missions, 290 accidents, and 12 deaths. (This excludes data from 2010, when the park issued a new permit ...

The fatalities follow that of a hiker on the Half Dome cliffs last week, the first death in the park this year. More than 100 climbing accidents happen in Yosemite every year. There were 16 ...