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 simply could not find traction. Again and again, as my forearms ...

Grace Rohloff fell to her death on July 13, after she and her father got stuck in rainstorm Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has ...

The essential gear that Jason Torlano and Zach Milligan used to survive their historic ski descent of Half Dome to the Yosemite Valley floor. When looking through the photos of Jason Torlano and ...

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 ...

The short film by Carl Boenish that documents the flight carried out by Rich Piccirilli, Jim Hanbury and Brian Johnson from Half Dome (Yosemite) that marked a pivotal moment in the history of BASE ...

A prominent feature of the Yosemite Valley, this granite rock face rises up 4,737 feet above the valley floor (8,844 feet above sea level). In 1875, George Anderson scaled the rock face and ...

"She lived every second of her life to the fullest,” said Jonathan, Grace Rohloff's dad Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Her work ...