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Jonathan Rohloff is still reeling from the horror of watching his 20-year-old daughter slide to her death off Yosemite's Half Dome. He said his request for more safeguards on the century-old ...
A hiker climbing Yosemite National Park's famous Half Dome died after suffering a 500-foot fall last Thursday, according to the Visalia Times-Delta. Danielle Burnett, 29, was visiting the park ...
Half Dome rises to 8,800 feet (2,682 meters) above sea level. The hike is a 16-mile (26- kilometer) round trip with an elevation gain of 4,800 feet (1,463 meters).
The ashes of Ansel Adams were later scattered on Half Dome after he died. [46] Half Dome was used as the logo for a software company, Sierra On-Line. In 1971, outdoor recreation and climbing equipment company The North Face created their company logo, based upon a stylized depiction of the Half Dome formation. It is still their logo 50 years ...
Grace Rohloff, 20, was hiking with her father on July 13 and had successfully reached the summit of Yosemite's Half Dome, one of the park's most famous and challenging hikes.
Carla Pérez (born 28 December 1982) is an Ecuadorian climber.In 2019 she became the first woman to successfully summit both Everest and K2 in the same year (in 1995 Alison Hargreaves reached both summits unsupported and without supplemental oxygen but died descending K2), and the first woman from the Americas to summit K2 without supplemental oxygen.
Grace Rohloff's death has renewed concerns about the safety of hiking Half Dome in Yosemite, where at least 10 people have died in the last decade. He saw his daughter fall from Half Dome. He says ...
In July, a 20-year-old hiker out fell to her death from Half Dome in California's Yosemite National Park during a storm. Contributing: Eve Chen, USA TODAY; Darcie Moran, Detroit Free Press