Whenever someone dies on Yosemite’s Half Dome while climbing or descending ... to clamber up and down the final 400 feet of polished granite are dangerous — incredibly so in wet weather.

A prominent feature of the Yosemite Valley, this granite rock face rises up 4,737 ... It is those cables that guide hikers to the summit of Half Dome. While most visitors are content to gaze ...

In my quest to experience a Yosemite matching my expectation, I headed toward the heart of the almost 1,200-square-mile (3,108-square-kilometer) park to a granite dome, this one comparatively ...

The trail climbs through the forest before reaching the granite dome where hikers ... For more information on Lembert Dome and its hike, visit the Yosemite NPS website. Yosemite Highlights Small ...

In the belly of Yosemite National Park lies a granite dome that's more than 8,800 feet high. Near its summit are twisted metal handrails that allow hundreds of daily hikers to ascend to the very ...

The short film by Carl Boenish that documents the flight carried out by Rich Piccirilli, Jim Hanbury and Brian Johnson from Half Dome (Yosemite) that marked a pivotal moment in the history of BASE ...

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

The essential gear that Jason Torlano and Zach Milligan used to survive their historic ski descent of Half Dome to the Yosemite Valley ... 5,000 feet of rolling granite slabs.

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 ...

This hike off Glacier Point Road ticks off two of the most incredible viewpoints in Yosemite. The loop starts by heading towards Sentinel Dome, a huge granite dome that sits high on the valley walls.

When you think about huge granite rock faces, the first that 99% of climbers think of is undoubtedly "Yosemite"! It is there that big wall ... having driven through kilometers of forests, Half Dome ...