Hikers use cables to make their way toward the Half Dome summit in Yosemite National Park in 2015. (Marc Martin / Los Angeles Times) To the editor: My suggestion for making Half Dome safer is to take ...

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 frequently.

Clinging for life to a cold steel cable, high on a nearly vertical rock face in the Sierra Nevada, the soles of my hiking shoes simply could not find traction. Again and again, as my forearms trembled ...

To the editor: I have climbed Half Dome 13 times, descending the cables each time. I have more experience than most, so here is my opinion. (“Want to make Half Dome safer? Remove the climbing cables ...

Kirk Keeler surveyed the scene from a vantage point he hadn’t reached since his 20s. To the north he saw the flattened granite of Clouds Rest and in the distance the jagged pyramid of Cathedral Peak.

FRESNO, Calif (KFSN) -- Hiking to the top of Half Dome is one of the world's most spectacular hikes. It starts on a trail that winds past glorious waterfalls and ends ...

A massive sheet of rock fell from the vertical face of Half Dome in Yosemite National Park, making one of the most popular routes attempted by climbers in North America even more challenging, park ...

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK — Hordes of tourists are clogging the cable handrails on the slope leading up Yosemite’s iconic Half Dome, delaying climbers and frustrating serious athletes who say the ...

Clinging for life to a cold steel cable, high on a nearly vertical rock face in the Sierra Nevada, the soles of my hiking shoes simply could not find traction. Again and again, as my forearms trembled ...

Half Dome and Yosemite Valley in a view from Glacier Point at Yosemite National Park, Calif. (AP Photo/Tracie Cone, File) Clinging for life to a cold steel cable, high on a nearly vertical rock face ...