Rohloff's death sparked a debate online about how the lottery system may actually be making Half Dome more dangerous. Since the hiking permits are so difficult to get (with around 19% success rate ...

Yosemite’s Half Dome shouldn’t need any PR help. It got a good boost of it though when 93-year-old Everett Kalin ascended the 4,800-foot rock in the national park in central California with ...

Just a look at the cable route up Half Dome, and viewers can see why it’s one of the most dangerous hikes in the U.S. The 400-foot route to the top is nearly vertical, and an extreme amount of ...

The park limits the number of people who can climb Half Dome to 300 per day, a cap aimed, in part, at reducing gridlock on the cables. If you go without a permit, and get caught, there’s a $280 ...