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.

In Yosemite National Park, an elite search-and-rescue team helps lost hikers, evacuates injured climbers and saves people ...

Visitors to Yosemite National Park hoping to hike its famed Half Dome Trail will have to wait at least one week due to heavy snowpack conditions. Hikers who were hoping to scale Yosemite National Park ...

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 ...

MARIPOSA COUNTY, Calif. -- Cheers echoed from Half Dome in Yosemite National as 93-year-old Everett Kalin reached the summit earlier this month. The retired professor from Oakland just added the ...

The Half Dome cables span the last 400 feet of an eight-mile hike from Yosemite Valley to the top of Half Dome. (Jack Dolan / Los Angeles Times) To the editor: I have climbed Half Dome 13 times, ...