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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 ...
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 ...
Rohloff was hiking with her father, Jonathan Rohloff, after securing one of the limited daily permits required to climb Half Dome and making the drive from Phoenix to Yosemite. Half Dome rises to ...
The Half Dome Cable Route hike runs from the valley floor to the top of the dome in 8.2 mi (13 km) (via the Mist Trail), with 4,800 ft (1,460 m) of elevation gain. The length and difficulty of the trail used to keep it less crowded than other park trails, but trail traffic grew to as many as 1,000 people a day, and about 50,000 per year, before ...
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.
Tenaya Canyon is a dramatic and dangerous canyon in Yosemite National Park, California, USA, that runs from the outlet of Tenaya Lake 10 miles down to Yosemite Valley, carrying water in Tenaya Creek through a series of spectacular cascades and pools and thence into a deep canyon below Cloud's Rest, a giant granite mountain adjacent to Half Dome.
Park rangers said the missing backpacker who vanished while hiking in Yosemite National Park was found dead Saturday morning. Kirk S. Thomas Olsen, 61, went missing near Ostrander Lake during a ...
USA, Gates of the Arctic National Park, Alaska — Bell was killed while hiking with a friend near the Kugrak river. They startled a mother bear feeding on salmon. [172] July 5, 1996: Christine Courtney, 32, female: Wild: Canada, Kluane National Park, Yukon — Courtney was killed while hiking on the Slim's Valley trail in Kluane National Park ...