While Horsetail Fall illuminates just a few minutes before ... For it to flow, there has to be plenty of snowmelt. Galen Rowell took the first known photograph of the 'Firefall' in 1973.

Every year from mid-to-late February, the setting sun hits Yosemite's Horsetail Fall along the ... In the early 1970s the wilderness photographer Galen Rowell captured the firefall-like illusion ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Every February, Horsetail Falls, which cascade down the famous El Capitan cliff in Yosemite National Park, become a fiery orange, illuminated by the setting sun.