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That climb had gone so smoothly he was certain he could free solo it, despite the route's legendary difficulty. When Half Dome was first climbed, in 1957, it had taken Californian Royal Robbins ...

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 ...

Whenever someone dies on Yosemite’s Half Dome while climbing or descending the infamous ... additional metal poles and wooden planks on the route in order to provide hikers with more places ...

It’s cool, it’s crisp, and if it’s not raining or snowing, this is an excellent time to climb in Yosemite National ... and watched the sunrise behind Half Dome the next morning.

The news spread like wildfire across the climbing globe yesterday ... 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 ...