Witness describes hiker’s slide down Half Dome in Yosemite Despite taking cover, hikers say they still received shocks from the lightning bolts while climbing Half Dome on September 21.

Roads into the park are open, but several trails are closed. Firefighters had monitored the lightning-sparked fire that started Aug. 16 between Little Yosemite Valley and Half Dome, and last Thursday ...

More than 20 people have died on Half Dome itself, from falls, heart attacks and other accidents such as lightning strikes, according to yosemitehikes.com. The trail to Half Dome is dangerous as ...

The biggest problem on Half Dome The first person to ever summit Half Dome did so in 1875, and in the 44 years that followed, the only way to reach the top was to scale the cliff face with ...

To the editor: My suggestion for making Half Dome safer is to take the cables down. Not just part of the year, as is done now, but all year. (“After a young woman falls to her death in Yosemite ...