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A fall from that height — on the climbing cables that mark the final 400-foot ascent to the summit of Yosemite's Half Dome — could easily be fatal. So I clenched my fists tighter and inched ...
A hiker climbing Yosemite National Park's famous Half Dome died after suffering a 500-foot fall, according to the Visalia Times-Delta. ... Permits have cut that number down to 300 visitors per day ...
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — A bucket-list climb to the top of Yosemite National Park's Half Dome turned to tragedy for a young Arizona woman who fell to her death during a descent ...
Within a year, Harding was an active figure in the nascent climbing community of Yosemite Valley, the huge glacial valley in which big-wall or multi-day vertical technical or roped rock climbing developed in the United States after World War II. He began pushing the limits of the sport in the 1950s, and quickly became one of the "stone masters ...
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At the age of 24, Beverly Johnson was already an established member of the Camp-4 community in Yosemite in 1971. She was part of the first all female climb of El Capitan with Sibylle Hechtel and the first woman to solo climb Dihedral wall of El Capitan over a period of 10 days in October 1978.
A climbing instructor fell to his death on Yosemite's El Captain, according to a report, marking the latest accident on the iconic rock peak that is a favorite among rock climbers.
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.