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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 ...
July 24, 2024 at 1:12 PM. 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 ...
Yosemite Creek. Yosemite Falls is the highest waterfall in Yosemite National Park, dropping a total of 2,425 feet (739 m) from the top of the upper fall to the base of the lower fall. [ 2 ] Located in the Sierra Nevada of California, it is a major attraction in the park, especially in late spring when the water flow is at its peak.
Yosemite Firefall. The Yosemite Firefall was a summertime event that began in 1872 and continued for almost a century, in which burning hot embers were spilled from the top of Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park to the valley 3,000 feet (900 m) below. From a distance it appeared as a glowing waterfall. The owners of the Glacier Point Hotel ...
Nevada Fall[3] is a 594-foot (181 m) high waterfall on the Merced River in Yosemite National Park, California. It is located below the granite dome, Liberty Cap, at the west end of Little Yosemite Valley. The waterfall is widely recognized by its "bent" shape, in which the water free-falls for roughly the first third of its length to a steep ...
December 30, 2022 at 1:50 PM. Wawona Tunnel frames a view of Yosemite National Park. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times) Two people died in a rock slide Tuesday at Yosemite National Park, according ...
1984 (8th Session) Yosemite National Park (/ joʊˈsɛmɪti / yoh-SEM-ih-tee[5]) is a national park of the United States in California. [6][7] It is bordered on the southeast by Sierra National Forest and on the northwest by Stanislaus National Forest. The park is managed by the National Park Service and covers 759,620 acres (1,187 sq mi; 3,074 ...
A 21-year-old Romanian tourist fell to his death near a waterfall at Yosemite National Park after he slipped off a rock, KCRA reports. Authorities told the station that Lucian Miu attempted to ...