Climbing Half Dome is risky. The solution, if we're concerned about safety, is to completely remove the cables, not enhance them.

For Keeler, the Half Dome climb marked a return to the skyline of one of his favorite places. ... Those routes on Half Dome range from 5.9 or 5.12 on a difficulty scale that tops out at 5.15.

Former Sonoma County resident Kirk Keeler, who has Stage 4 colon cancer, and Santa Rosa professional climber Kevin Jorgeson are attempting a route called Snake Dike that on Half Dome’s southwest ...

Backers of a proposal to allow an unlimited number of people to hike to the top of Yosemite National Park's iconic Half Dome seem to ignore the obvious: This is nuts. Because permits from the ...

The Regular Northwest Face of Half Dome is one of the most prized climbing routes in the world. Over five days in 1957, Royal Robbins, Mike Sherrick, and Jerry Gallwas pioneered the route’s ...

A towering icon of Yosemite National Park just got a face-lift, as a huge slab of rock recently peeled off Half Dome, possibly changing the route up to the top for climbers. "Our climbing rangers ...

YOSEMITE VALLEY, Calif., July 8 (UPI) --A slab of rock, approximately 200 feet in length, fell off Yosemite National Park's popular Half Dome in California, altering the the classic climbing route ...

The rockfall did not affect the cable route to the top of Half Dome that is popular with hikers. The rockfall took a thin sheet of rock measuring roughly 100 feet by 200 feet — about 800 cubic ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Officials at Yosemite National Park say a massive sheet of rock has fallen from the vertical face of Half Dome on the most popular route used by rock climbers.

A popular climbing route at Half Dome in the Yosemite National Park may have been altered after part of the iconic granite monolith's face collapsed last week, officials said Tuesday.

The rockfall did not affect the cable route to the top of Half Dome that is popular with hikers. The rockfall took a thin sheet of rock measuring roughly 100 feet by 200 feet — about 800 cubic ...