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The park limits the number of people who can climb Half Dome to 300 per day, a cap aimed, in part, at reducing gridlock on the cables. If you go without a permit, and get caught, there’s a $280 ...
Whenever someone dies on Yosemite’s Half Dome while climbing or descending the infamous cables section, I am always surprised. ... the attempt every year, most with little rock climbing ...
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 later. [46] In 1988, Half Dome was featured on a 25 cent United States postage stamp.
Pages in category "Deaths in Yosemite National Park" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
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 forced by a sudden storm that pounded the ...
Pages in category "Mountaineering deaths" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 259 total. ... Richard Hidalgo (climber)
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 ...
The Half Dome is a granite dome in California's Yosemite National Park, whose summit at elevation 8,844 ft (2,696 m) is more than 4,700 ft (1,400 m) * above the floor of Yosemite Valley. Known to the local Native Americans as "Tis-sa-ack", the dome was first summitted by George G. Anderson in October 1875.