Visitors can't expect to be perfectly safe, especially when climbing an almost vertical rock face. It's tragic that a young ...

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 ...

That climb had gone so smoothly he was certain he could free solo it, despite the route's legendary difficulty. When Half Dome was first climbed, in 1957, it had taken Californian Royal Robbins ...