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Yosemite’s Half Dome cables are dangerous. Here’s why they won’t be made safer | Opinion
Whenever someone dies on Yosemite’s Half Dome while climbing or descending ... descended the cables together July 13. (While on the summit, the pair was caught off guard by a sudden storm.
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Daughter, 20, Told Dad She Loved Him Minutes Before She Fell to Her Death from Yosemite's Half Dome
Grace Rohloff/Facebook The Arizona college student who died after slipping down the Half Dome in Yosemite National Park on Saturday, July 13, had celebrated reaching the summit with her father ...
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Half Dome
It is those cables that guide hikers to the summit of Half Dome. While most visitors are content to gaze at the iconic Yosemite site from the valley floor, the best viewing is at Sentinel Bridge ...
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Arizona father, daughter celebrated reaching summit of Yosemite's Half Dome minutes before the daughter fell to her death
An Arizona State University student and Valley Lutheran High School graduate died after slipping and falling while hiking up Yosemite's Half Dome with ... pair reached the summit just before ...
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Half Dome 1977 and the pioneering flight in Yosemite
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 ... law and to do so they ...
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How the Half Dome Duo Rigged for a Historic Yosemite Ski Descent
Torlano and Milligan notched the first complete ski descent of the iconic, 8,839-foot monolith from summit to Mirror ... that these unsponsored, Yosemite-regular Half Dome heroes brought along ...
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A perilous summit in Yosemite has caused at least 300 accidents in the last 15 years. Here's why people keep slipping and falling.
Near its summit are twisted metal handrails ... Though the rock formation, known as Half Dome, has become one of Yosemite's most iconic symbols, it's also one of the most dangerous hikes in ...
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Daring. Defiant. Free.
He's less than a hundred feet from the summit ... in vehicles at Yosemite. Kate Rutherford, 30, and Madeleine Sorkin, 29, who together made the first female free ascent of Half Dome, both live ...
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Beneath Yosemite’s Beauty, Anger and Anxiety Over Trump’s Job Cuts
The bulk of the four million people who visit Yosemite annually stay within a seven-square-mile area of waterfalls and sheer cliffs, including Half Dome, a summit that’s three times as tall as ...
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Yosemite National Park Neighborhoods
Yosemite Falls and the Merced River. The Mist Trail also offers connections to Half Dome, from which you can scale steel cables to climb to the rock's summit, one of the most challenging hikes in ...
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A Day In The Park: Yosemite National Park
Spending time in Yosemite Valley at Yosemite National Park in California is a great introduction to this national park. But ...