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 ...

A prominent feature of the Yosemite Valley, this granite rock face rises up 4,737 feet above the valley floor (8,844 feet above sea level). In 1875, George Anderson scaled the rock face and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Details the tenth attempt by Jim Erickson and Art Higbee to scale the two thousand-foot-high vertical face of Half Dome in Yosemite National Park. Narrated by Robert Redford.

Grace Rohloff fell to her death on July 13, after she and her father got stuck in rainstorm Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has ...

This stuff is collected from assorted sources; it's accuracy is both a function of my memory and the honesty of the climbers involved. A better site for speedclimbing records is Hans Florine's ...

It’s cool, it’s crisp, and if it’s not raining or snowing, this is an excellent time to climb in Yosemite National Park. For most routes here though, the rule of thumb here is to wait for ...

Jacopo Larcher talks about his first climbing trip to Yosemite Valley, USA with Barbara Zangerl, during which they repeated El Nino (5.13c, 800m) on El Capitan and other granite big wall climbs. When ...

Spending time in Yosemite Valley at Yosemite National Park in California is a great introduction to this national park. But ...

It's now easier to see the evolution of rock climbing on display while on your way to Yosemite National Park. The Yosemite Climbing Museum completed a recent renovation, allowing the space to ...

As one of the most recognizable features of Yosemite National Park, El Capitan is one of the first features that visitors see, as it is visible even before travelers enter Yosemite Valley from ...