She was descending during wet weather. In 2010, Yosemite officials instituted a permit system for the hike. Before that, Half Dome had been drawing close to 1,000 hikers on many summer weekend ...

2007-07-07 04:00:00 PDT Yosemite National Park-- Scores of sweating hikers lugging backpacks and water bottles hung onto the cable handrails on the slope leading to the top of Half Dome ...

Sometimes they have no trouble going up but they have trouble going down so they go down backwards,” as if descending a ladder. Each year, thousands of hikers stand on Half Dome’s 13-acre summit.

I’ve hiked Half Dome four times. I consider myself an experienced hiker, but even so, every time I complete the cable section I breathe a huge sigh of relief. The final 400-foot climb to the top ...

The first person to ever summit Half Dome did so in 1875 ... board laid flat between them, which hikers can use as footholds while ascending and descending the 45-degree granite slope.

Whenever someone dies on Yosemite’s Half Dome while climbing or descending the infamous cables ... steel posts and wood planks used by hikers to clamber up and down the final 400 feet of ...

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK — 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 ... Yosemite’s Half Dome — could ...

He was descending the cables when ... One of the park’s objectives in setting a limit of 300 a day was a safer Half Dome hike: fewer people overall on the cables and less chance of congestion ...