About one mile in, the hikers stopped at the Vernal Fall Footbridge and the Merced River. They were cooling off in the water when the boys got swept away by a current. Someone pulled the 10-year ...

On May 13, Kent Butler, 60, a professor from Austin, Texas, slipped at the bottom of the granite steps below Vernal Fall, landed on a rock and slid into the roiling Merced River, where he drowned.

The search is on for a man's body after he stumbled into the Merced River from the Mist ... park rangers do know it was above the Vernal Fall footbridge, which is less than a mile from ...

The cascading tower of water that is Vernal Falls is one of the most powerful waterfalls in the incredible Yosemite National ...

the popular walk up Vernal and Nevada falls next to the plunging, roaring, snowmelt-swollen Merced River.

UPDATE: The family of Manteca resident Ramina Badal, among the three people swept over Vernal Fall to their presumed deaths on Tuesday afternoon, released a statement this afternoon. They also ...

Three weeks ago, a man was reported missing after witnesses saw him fall into the Merced River from the Mist Trail near Vernal Fall. Park official warn that many sections of the Mist Trail are wet ...

takes hikers up the Merced River as its pristine waters roar out of the park’s high country, cascading through granite boulders over two spectacular waterfalls, the 319-foot-tall Vernal Fall and ...

Witnesses say the three hikers ignored warnings and climbed guard railing at the top of Vernal Fall on Tuesday to wade into the Merced River, several dozen feet from the water’s drop.

Although Yosemite Valley is expected to be open, rafting, swimming and picnicking in areas along the river could be unavailable ... close due to flooding. Vernal Fall, Nevada Fall, Bridalveil ...

Taking visitors on views of Vernal and Nevada falls and winding along the Merced River, the trail lives up to its name, providing for some slippery steps along the way. Nevada Fall, the 594-foot ...